Re: Going to GP

used2be <used2be@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
used2be <used2be@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

I'd've tried the macrame book in preference. Who needed a book to hang
yourself, anyway? I was a suicide risk left with my belt and braces.
Crap staff, wouldn't you say?

that's really terrible. everytime i've been on lockup here in amurica,
they've taken away my belts, my shoelaces, the mirror from my makeup
compact, and my razor.

I even had a scalpel blade on me - which I had packed in my driving
documents wallet a long time previously (and forgotten about as it
happens) as a sort of joke (I had a curious sense of humour) on the off
chance that I might get locked up in a loony bin one day. I was curious
to see if they'd take it off me - but no-one made any attempt to either
remove the obvious `hazard items' from my person, or to check what I had
in my pockets.

Quite funny, actually. It's a good job that I wasn't in fact any sort
of suicide risk, 'cos it would have been dead easy to top myself,
although not with a scapel blade; just jumping out of the window would
have been the straightforward option. And yes, I was put in a room
where that would have been easy to do - splat onto concrete. Patient
care? Locked up for my own safety? Bollocks. It was punishment for
daring to ask for help, I reckon.

the first time i went into the psych ward, it was on the top floor of the
hospital (the 19th), and there were huge metal bars on every window.

I had a single pane of ordinary old-fashioned thin window glass, held in
with putty. The second room was similar, but with a Perspex (I *think*
- might have been polycarbonate, mind) window. Okay, Perspex is harder
to break than `old fashioned window glass', but it wasn't really any
sort of serious barrier. I did sort of prod it a bit out of curiosity,
y'see. Well, I didn't have any other occupation aside from sit in the
room and muse upon my fate. A good way to treat an alleged suicide
risk, don't you think?

we
even had a fire alarm go off in the hospital once, and none of us were
allowed to leave the floor.

Ye gods! Is that legal?

it was a bit scary.

Everything about being imprisoned is scary as far as I'm concerned.

Rowland.


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