Spent 15 hours at JPS once for an Eval, screw that shit.. fuckin bat shit crazy mofo's.
Hell it was boring as hell during the day.. the circus started up at about 2 am when the pretty lil slutty looking girl started running around stripping down. I was up for the show but everything else that night didn't do anything but interrupt my sleep.
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Funny you mention that....Originally posted by Forever_frost View Post
The tables in our main gathering area were round and had red and black checker boards painted on the tables. It drove me nuts that after breakfast the chairs would be EVERYWHERE!!! the chairs were so heavy but I would spend my morning pushing them into place.....4 per table with a few tables left with an open spot for the wheel chair guys. The nurses at first told me not to do it, but they realized I wasnt listening and that I wasnt hurting anyone by organizing. By the 5th day they waved and smiled at me and would chat with me as I organized the rooms. I would organize every room after meals so that they were nice and neat for the next meal. i figured this would probably also help with other patients mental stability because we were so trained to have uniformed stuff in our live that chaotic rooms agitated us. Maybe it helped and maybe it didnt. All i know is that i got one hell of a workotu from it and it made m e feel better.Leave a comment:
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It's amazing how the little things will bother the fuck out of you when you're in that state. And a chair that is a fraction of an inch off......and you can't figure it out for a few hours, absolutely maddeningLeave a comment:
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By the evening of the 3rd day, my mind was playing tricks on me and I literally found myself thinking I was in the Matrix. I stopped a nurse from shutting a door in my face and had every intention of removing her from my way but something inside of me made me freeze and screamed at me not to hurt her. Thankfully I was able to call my older brother and talk to him. I asked him if I was suppossed to break out of here......he laughed and said "no little brother, these people are on your side and are there to take care of you. Relax and do what they say because they are helping you." Thats all I needed to get cozy and wait it out. dedicated the rest of my time to talking to nurses and patients and helping them as much as I could.Leave a comment:
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There was a black guy in a wheel chair that was very loud and you couldnt understand him....everyone gave him a whole lot of room. He was released the day after I got there.....and was brought back the day before I was released. He spent his time in a room alone with a guard. he was naked in the room and shit everywhere.......no idea what this man had gone thru to land him in his little room.Leave a comment:
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what you mainly find is VERY frustrated guys that cant do simple things, but what they can do is snap your neck like a chicken in less than a second. I had a Navy Seal that was ready to wage war on my little friend that had the problem with the curtain. I had found out by the end of the day that the curtain guy had seen his friend killed in front of him and was a POW.......he also has lost his mother the day before......he handled all of this news by talking nonstop to whoever would listen to him.......this annoyed the SEAL.....until I told him about what the other guy had gone thru. You could see the man soften the second I said it.
It was then I realized I was not surrounded by mental patients.....
I was surrounded by heroes.Leave a comment:
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By day two I am not quite sure where my mind set was. I found myself in a place with...well....crazy people. I guess I fit right in with my cheshire grin and my natural born serial killer eyes.......I cant help my eyes....a dog bit me when I was 10 and ever since then it gave me a look that has been described by everyone close to me as serial killer. i dont mean to look like a serial killer.....just happens. makes meeting new people frustrating.
anyway.... so, I am on some good meds by then and i am in a happy place. I have taken it upon myself to be the guy that cheers up everyone else. Well, it worked! This place is filled with veterans and veterans only. The guys that have seen bad shit and are here to get fixed.
I had this very innocent and sweet person that was very lost in this world. You could tell he was an officer or of higher rank in another world but somethign he saw or did has put him here. He was very upset by the fact that his shower curtain was not closing all the way and more upset that the nurses were not fixing it. this problem was fucking his whole world up. I went into his room......drug his 2000lb chair over to the shower so i could get on it, climbed it, and rehung his simple velcro shower curtain so this man could shower in peace. When i told him of this and he inspected it, he thought I was the most amazing man on the planet. He mentioned his curtains so I fixed them as well.Leave a comment:
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I find myself extremely happy to be there to the point of almost being euphoric. The nurses were very polite and didnt mind the fact at all that all i wanted to do was walk around the halls and stare out the windows at the very pretty grass and trees that were in the court yard below. I said hello to every nurse that walked by with a smile on my face.Leave a comment:
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