I’ve been to grippy sock jail before. Plus side You get snack time, arts and crafts sleepy meds, down side your roommate may throw poo at you
Free sock tho
“I request line-item billing please.”
Grippy socks: 14 @ $87.61 ea
14?? How long were you in the hospital?
(Theoretically) 7 days. One pair per day, even if you didn’t use em.
Awful anti glide socks though.
CW self harm and suicidal ideation
Depending on where you are, please be honest with your therapist. Usually they can’t (and don’t want to) get you committed unless they’re convinced you’re in immediate danger of badly harming yourself or others. If that’s the case, maybe going to the hospital isn’t a bad idea. I’ve talked to my therapist about suicidal ideation, frequent dreams about suicide that I found pleasant, and about self harming, and she never even considered it. All she did was refer me to a psychiatrist, but I wasn’t forced to see her, let alone committed to a hospital.
Do look up whether the rules are different in your country, though.
As a therapist, I totally agree with what you’ve written above. However, I also have the unfortunate experience of working with mental health providers (mainly psychiatrists in pill-kiosk roles) who will send patients to the ER if they mention any suicidal ideation out of a paranoid fear of losing their license. Thankfully, ER doctors tend to actually assess the seriousness of said ideation and don’t admit people who aren’t seriously considering self-harm, but it’s still an ordeal.
So, I would simply add to your advice that if any mental health provider calls 911 at the mere mention of suicidal thoughts, get yourself a new provider immediately. That provider either hasn’t learned how to properly assess suicidality or is too chicken-shit to do it (far more likely, the latter).
Doesn’t make sense to send people to the ER? I’ve read too many tales of people going themselves or taking someone else and the ER kinda shrugs because they’re not equipped to really deal with whether or not to commit someone, or if they can hold someone, it’s usually only for very short periods of something like 24-48 hours.
If you have any insight that would be great.
So, not all hospitals have inpatient psychiatric facilities, but most have emergency rooms. If they aren’t equipped with an inpatient facility, obviously there’s no place to admit them to and all they can do is either keep them in the ER for a few days for observation or send them to a facility that does have an inpatient psychiatric unit. Also, if they don’t have any psychiatric units at all, I can see how their ER might lack a mental health provider who can adequately assess a person who comes in on reports that they reported suicidal ideation in a therapy session with their outpatient provider. However, any hospital with an inpatient psychiatric ward will usually have what’s called a comprehensive psychiatric emergency program (CPEP), which is effectively a psychiatric emergency room (sometimes integrated into the actual ER, sometimes not), and they obviously will have psychiatrists to assess patients who come in during mental health crises.
My point was simply that outpatient therapists and psychiatrists are fully capable of assessing the seriousness of a patient’s suicidal ideation and that a trip to the ER isn’t always necessary. Patients should only be sent to the ER against their wills when the outpatient provider is not convinced that the patient won’t harm themselves before their next session.
Sorry, I know that was wordy, but I hope I answered your question.
That helps, thank you.
Thanks for the professional insight!
My therapist does role plays with me. I do an I’m-okay act, and they do a baker act.
Could you elaborate on this a bit?
Yes. It’s a play on words. Therapy can sometimes use role plays. In this role play, I was acting like I was okay, which implies I wasn’t okay. The therapist, at face value, seems like they acted like a baker, which doesn’t make sense. However, the thing is that a “baker act” is when a therapist places their client in a psych unit against their client’s own will because the therapist believes the client is a considerable threat to their own safety. In the case of the play on words, the therapist saw through my “I’m okay” act by noticing that I wasn’t okay and put me in the hospital.
Does this help?
Yup, that’s where I thought you were headed, but also thought I was overthinking it.
As someone who never had any mental problem or childhood trauma, this took me way too many comments to understand.
I still don’t get it. They’re telling you to stop? With a stopping sock?
They’re socks with grippy material on the bottom to keep you from slipping. They give them to you when you’re admitted to the hospital. The implication is that they were sent to the psych ward and put on suicide watch.
Oh, thank you. I did not at all connect them to mental wards or hospitals. I though they have slippers there. Like in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
It’s probably just safer and cheaper with the socks these days.
It is my understanding that the joke is misinterpreted or maybe correctly interpreted as some serious problem with the person, so that the therapist puts them in a mental hospital, where those things are worn instead of shoes.
Thank you, I did not think of that.
I’m legit wearing these around the house right now lmao
Hell yeah. I was in the hospital recently for some heart stuff. I kept the socks cuz they’re comfy.
Pshrinks don’t have a sense of humor.
