▲ 10 r/Psychosis
I haven't seen much talk about the seclusion room here. Who's experienced it?
I had it in south east London. it was the ultimate humbling, and although I think it to be wrong, so wrong, it taught me a lot.
it invokes the deepest hopelessness and vulnerability you can imagine, being pinned to the ground by the biggest male nurses of the ward (I'm 6"4), a needle shoved up your bum, being clothed in kinda groovy minty green baggy clothes, and being denied the right to move in this universe at all. I started taking the meds, making friends with Stewart and Olu and the Somali psychiatrist, and singing to my captors, but lordy is it dystopian that idea of freedom through capitulation.
the staff I found to be beautiful, if heavily misguided people. the key is to focus on the former, even in 'normal' life.
u/hebog_cy — 2 days ago