tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post6848588811150170622..comments2023-11-03T03:52:37.873-05:00Comments on Cognitive Dissidence: Silent No MoreSomebody DO Something!http://www.blogger.com/profile/08717747685928127724noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-13722573502791444682013-07-29T03:05:44.963-05:002013-07-29T03:05:44.963-05:00(cont)
Most of them are wonderful people caught up... (cont)<br />Most of them are wonderful people caught up in awful circumstances as PTSD can be implicated in nearly 96% of all admits and none have been in combat. Although they do live in a warzone of poverty being the most common denominator in this county. The sad thing is the system for these clients is already so badly broken. Staff are not only mistreated by some of the clients, it is worse by hospital administrators who haven't worked a day in mental health in their lives on the floor. Staff are also subject to the lateral violence that comes with poor working conditions, poor compensation, and constant overtime. These individuals that are chronically acutely ill will be in our backyards, city parks, and they will overcrowd our jail. I could go on for days the potential disaster closing MCMH will be, but I've already taken up so much space. With that I will say, the dark angry cynic in me wonders if concealed carry was implemented before all of this was hoisted on an unsuspecting public, with even the Sheriff of Milwaukee County telling us to arm ourselves because it is a matter of time once MCMH closes until someone in a psychotic state either shoots up a clinic, store, or Psych hospital. Perhaps this was the purpose of CC to "take care of" the mentally ill. One area facility has no security either, by design to reduce the temptation to get violent or be triggered by the uniform is what I was told when I heard those working conditions. Some nurse who cannot arm herself inside will likely get shot in the face first and the rush to evacuate before more die will be on the nightly news. I opened the comment stating after all these years I am leaving, I have to for my sanity. Those admitted are getting sicker, I am terrified of the reality of who will be let out of the facilities with scant resources. Thank you for allowing me to take up so much of your space, I hope citizens will get as angry and fearful as I. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-54727794518349153592013-07-29T03:04:03.099-05:002013-07-29T03:04:03.099-05:00After many years working in mental health I am so ...After many years working in mental health I am so severely traumatized that I have to leave. It will only get worse in both private hospitals and residential based facilities. The state has reduced open beds to save money resulting in dangerous individuals cycling through county and private units until there is a bed open, and then they only keep them for 3-4 days unless they are urinating on staff or throwing feces, so low functioning and violent they require near constant restraints, that kind of thing. The staff in County and private inpatient units are subjected to physical assaults nearly daily. The first time I was attacked for saying hello to a teen girl I was encouraged to not report it to the police. I was new and young then believing it wasn't a crime if they were being treated for mental illness. The verbal threats, disrespect, taunting and all that jazz toughens you up enough that you learn to not pay it much mind. You see men and women who have sexually assaulted children although chances are it was never reported by the victim and because of HIPAA laws and the no proof of immediate threat to others (say no kids in the home) you can't report it to anyone in law enforcement. You also meet teens and kids who have sexually assaulted other kids and teens, more often due to their own sexual assault as a child. You meet the barely no longer toddlers who are oversexualized because their mom traded sexual favors with the child for crack or meth. You also meet the children who've been so severely neglected physically and emotionally that they attach to you nearly immediately. You meet the teen girl who was the product of a gang rape, whose mother reminds her of this dark reality every day, and this was her 6th or 7th suicide attempt and her mother has subjected her to DNA tests as well as threats to move while she's in the hospital because mom is sick of dealing with these attempts that have gone on since 8 years-old. You meet the man who reminds you of Charles Manson who has nearly lived on inpatient units since diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teen, he's been violent in the past so the instructions are to basically give him what he wants because he has severely hurt staff Kb the past, he returns because he refused to take his meds. This tiny snippet of the thousands of clients I have personally helped care for doesn't paint the grim reality adequately. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-19017810854065133412013-07-23T18:44:26.294-05:002013-07-23T18:44:26.294-05:00shame on all these politicans and administraters. ...shame on all these politicans and administraters. The last time they closedNorth division they sent all the guys to the rescue mission. I know because I worked as an AODA counselor on 4th and Brown and we would get visits from these guys for free coffee. with their little bag lunchs. Its always on the backsof the most vunerable. Lots of those guys froze to death that first winter. We going to do that again? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com