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In Australia (or at least NSW), the health system doesn't know what to do with you. About 7 months ago I had a mental breakdown and experienced thoughts of suic
by chris_wot 10y ago
In Australia (or at least NSW), the health system doesn't know what to do with you. About 7 months ago I had a mental breakdown and experienced thoughts of suicide. When the health system found out, I had finished having the thoughts, and was at home trying to sleep, being supported by my loving family having been awake at the time for over 14 hours.
I was ripped out of my bed by ambulance officers with police present, despite my protests and my wife's - eventually agreeing to go voluntarily with them in their ambulance. Then after I got into the ED itself I discovered I'd been sectioned and not allowed to leave. After I realised this was what had happened I got placed in an isolation room, with no explanation as to why, and there I sat quietly rotting for the next 5.5 hours. In other words, I got no care, had my rights stripped and was treated like a criminal because after a sustained period of incredible stress I had a breakdown. I was then sent back home as they decided I shouldn't have been there in the first place.
I was then sent a bill for $600.
The system sucks.
- jrochkind1 10y ago> After I realised this was what had happened I got placed in an isolation room, with no explanation as to why, and there I sat quietly rotting for the next 5.5 hours. In other words, I got no care, had my rights stripped and was treated like a criminal because after a sustained period of incredible stress I had a breakdown That sounds like enough to _cause_ a breakdown!
- chris_wot 10y agoI have been living with sustained emotional stress for the last six months. There are days I go to work and as I'm driving in my car at a certain point I scream from the trauma. It's the only place I can do it, I don't dare do it around my family, friends or work colleagues. And I absolutely cannot talk to anyone involved in medicine, because their treatment for suicidal ideation from a mental breakdown has the unique side effect of making me feel like I want to die to escape the disrespect and indignity of being treated like a criminal who must be locked away.
- auganov 10y agoHow did they find out?
- chris_wot 10y agoVice Magazine.
- titzer 10y agoYour tax dollars at work. This sounds a lot like the movie "Brazil". It's good that you had your family around you. The system is too big to understand you on a timely and personal level.