#medical abuse tw
When I was in inpatient, no one had any idea how to handle a person with psychosis and trauma. I was just treated like I was being purposefully “difficult”, and nothing was done to help me cope with conditions I was in.
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I don’t consider giving me klonopin for a panic attack when it was prescribed to me for conversion disorder a proper treatment for a PTSD episode. Giving me medication when I wasn’t supposed to be taking in order to shut me up it isn’t proper care.
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Or the other hospital, sending me to my room and telling me to do breathing exercises when I was clearly on the edge of a breakdown from isolation, that wasn’t helpful either. Ignoring a patient’s needs isn’t treatment, and quite frankly I wish I could get my insurance’s money back, because I didn’t get much in the way of medical care.
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Creating stressful situations by messing up medications and not giving me prescribed pain medication on time, serving me food I had told them repeatedly I was allergic too, screaming at me, emotional abuse by staff, and other mistreatments are not conducive for anyone’s recovery. let alone a person with a complex trauma history. Hospitals can and should do better, but they have to want to.
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Text: psychotic people have the right to complain about abusive doctors
Sorry for the late uploads today, I am not feeling well and have been asleep most of the day!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
If you’ve been mistreated by a doctor or medical staff, you have the right to complain. You don’t have to stay silent just because they might be more educated than you are, or are older than you. You have a right to respectful medical care, and if you haven’t been given it you have a right to say so. Leave the negative review if you want, really. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
If the mistreatment goes beyond disrespect to abuse, you are not doing anything wrong by alerting the medical boards. You have a right to be protected from malicious doctors, even with a psychotic disorder. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
