13 thoughts on “Believe me, it was used, especially by mothers…”
LOL! yeah – I could use one of those right about now…
I feel like I’ve been in the psych ward for over 3 years right now.
We ALL have been, and if I may say so, we’re all currently doing fine.
Stay frosty.
A grippy sock holiday.
Oh wow!!!! You just made “flash ” to my years as a case manager in an emergency department.
I’m going to have to have another adult beverage………
Unfortunately, to get the 72 hour hold you have to be deemed a danger to yourself or others, by a judge. And THAT means you cannot own firearms.
Oh, nope… A 72 hour psych hold can be voluntary, can be initiated by a police hold, or a trained and licensed nurse, behavioral therapist or a mental health therapist and a doctor. After 72 hours a psychiatry doctor can issue a hold for 30 days and a judge has to be notified. After 30 days a hearing has to be set in front of a judge for a longer commitment. As a psych nurse and a behavioral therapist. I initiated a number of 72 hour holds when patients came into ER or front admissions on my authority alone. There is another avenue is a civil commit and can be initiated by spouses, parents, significant others, but only for 72 hours and has to be reviewed and set for hearing with a judge or magistrate in that 72 hours. Most states are similar with very little variance.
If you do so voluntarily you agree to a full 72 hours? What if you decide after 10 you were just having a bad moment and want to leave? Maybe it varies from state to state?
Dave, the states I was concerned in if you came in voluntary and even after 15 minutes you could leave, but you were on the hook for the original 72 hours. Only after being assessed can you be held if something came up initially that warranted that you were a harm to yourself or others then the voluntary status would be rescinded and a full 72 hour involuntary hold would be placed and you were in the meatgrinder or snake pit as it were.
Thanks you for the details. I feel for anyone who has to go through that.
Your welcome Dave… Hal 2000.
You really do not want to be in the mental health system. You are flagged. I know I wouldn’t want to be in it, and I worked in the system. Today I am very careful of what I say to a health care provider and I always refuse those damn surveys healthcare settings seem to be pushing on patients. Those surveys are in fact psychological profiles with the questions it is asking. A profile is being built on you. I have had them presented to me and I refused to answer after reading through it and was told if I didn’t respond to it I would be refused service. I said fine, walked out and told them to make sure they had ruby red lipstick when they kissed my ass.
Just imagine what Cederq’s poor mum had to endure! If only the poor woman had been able to fasten several short barbed-wire strands to an old broomstick, and then got to use them on her little darling boy, her stress levels would have abated considerably.
LOL! yeah – I could use one of those right about now…
I feel like I’ve been in the psych ward for over 3 years right now.
We ALL have been, and if I may say so, we’re all currently doing fine.
Stay frosty.
A grippy sock holiday.
Oh wow!!!! You just made “flash ” to my years as a case manager in an emergency department.
I’m going to have to have another adult beverage………
Unfortunately, to get the 72 hour hold you have to be deemed a danger to yourself or others, by a judge. And THAT means you cannot own firearms.
Oh, nope… A 72 hour psych hold can be voluntary, can be initiated by a police hold, or a trained and licensed nurse, behavioral therapist or a mental health therapist and a doctor. After 72 hours a psychiatry doctor can issue a hold for 30 days and a judge has to be notified. After 30 days a hearing has to be set in front of a judge for a longer commitment. As a psych nurse and a behavioral therapist. I initiated a number of 72 hour holds when patients came into ER or front admissions on my authority alone. There is another avenue is a civil commit and can be initiated by spouses, parents, significant others, but only for 72 hours and has to be reviewed and set for hearing with a judge or magistrate in that 72 hours. Most states are similar with very little variance.
If you do so voluntarily you agree to a full 72 hours? What if you decide after 10 you were just having a bad moment and want to leave? Maybe it varies from state to state?
Dave, the states I was concerned in if you came in voluntary and even after 15 minutes you could leave, but you were on the hook for the original 72 hours. Only after being assessed can you be held if something came up initially that warranted that you were a harm to yourself or others then the voluntary status would be rescinded and a full 72 hour involuntary hold would be placed and you were in the meatgrinder or snake pit as it were.
Thanks you for the details. I feel for anyone who has to go through that.
Your welcome Dave… Hal 2000.
You really do not want to be in the mental health system. You are flagged. I know I wouldn’t want to be in it, and I worked in the system. Today I am very careful of what I say to a health care provider and I always refuse those damn surveys healthcare settings seem to be pushing on patients. Those surveys are in fact psychological profiles with the questions it is asking. A profile is being built on you. I have had them presented to me and I refused to answer after reading through it and was told if I didn’t respond to it I would be refused service. I said fine, walked out and told them to make sure they had ruby red lipstick when they kissed my ass.
Just imagine what Cederq’s poor mum had to endure! If only the poor woman had been able to fasten several short barbed-wire strands to an old broomstick, and then got to use them on her little darling boy, her stress levels would have abated considerably.
wtf?