I felt that way too at times during this also. What a waste of taxpayers money - if he is so close to death why is there an armed guard all the time. It made no sense to me either!
Oh they are so strong. When we had to do a takedown it was five people. ONe for each limb and one for the head.
It seems many go cold. Pike Co? The N mia autistic child case? Joey Labute? Zacvhary Marr ( I think that was last name). Were IMO not gonna get any more info - its been two months - media gone - new terrorist attack or mass shooting every several days - enough to keep the news media striving for eye balls instead of doing journalisim. IMO much of this is cause of the internet .......................................
TY For sharing. He def had the overmedicated gaze and walk - its like a shuffle. THe really sad thing is that meds for major depression excaberte bipolar stuff. I had a very hard time when I started diagnosing bipolar correctly. Often, when manic , the would R/S , after all on the top of the world and all is well, so in reality you would only see them when depressed intially. I found promiscuty very helpful in moving toward bipolar - folks suffering with uni polar derpession are hardly going out. Female pts were flirty (I am only saying this generally - but there is a seductive sense to some) . Money and spending were often helpful as well. Its tough to diagnosis correctly, until you practice for a while. ANd back then the pill pushers, were not aware that the uipolar depression meds made the indiv suffering with bipolar worse. I think he took something (got a bad batch lets say) but I think he def is mentally ill. A lot of folks "seem fine" until the illiness emerges. I still would really like to know if he messed up his last semester, cause in reality, I think his downward sprial started months before that night. If I had seen his videos the day before this, I would totally think something was starting, his videos are tangential, grandoise, wildly dark, while his music is just gosh I dont know. I agree with other posters - I was stunned at how he looked - he sure did not look like someone who had spent the last 6 weeks on the verge of being six feet under-and again, if I passed him (getting out of the car and walking down the street w/o handcuffs) I would think mental illiness and or mental and his meds are not correct yet.Now there is another side tho. Is it better to have someone suffering with the illiness out running around on the expressway being Jesus, or drooling on a couch cause they cant get the meds correct. Typically very non compliant with meds - but that too is part of the illiness. Memory, feeling like a log all the time is very real - a lot of schzophrnics are homeless, so its real easy after being invol committed for 72 hours, overdrugged , and write on a discharge summary pt will take bl bla 3x per week and see Dr bla bla in 4 weeks when the reality here is they are lving in a boxExactly how are they gonna get to the doc in a month? How are they gonna pay for the meds, remember to take them, there is often drinking, Soceity wise IMO we abuse the mentally ill that dont have some resources .........................moo
dad statement that hw walked out before helped me , all along he never looked like he was mad or ongry he was calmly wakiing so that made sense.
RBBM - so so so so true!!!!! My daughter actually got pregnant while off her meds during a really rough period. Horrible pregnancy, very very sick, we knew early on our granddaughter would be born with Gastroschisis. (intestines are on the outside). She was in labor for a month. Granddaughter was in NICU for 3 months. My daughter actually did really well mentally during the pregnancy, (I think her hormones helped a little here) But after a scary birth and NICU for a week, my daughter bottomed out again and we were literally BEGGING for help. She was even begging for help. We were 3 hours away from her doctors and at the hospital 24/7. Do you know what they told us? That she would need to go to the ER and be processed and kept for 72 hours of observation (away from her very sick daughter) before they could do anything. AND even then she would probably just be released without proper help. Let me just tell you...that was HELL on EARTH. She obviously refused to go to ER to be separated from her daughter. (Can't blame her!) I had a ton of convos with all the doctors and social workers in the NICU and reminded them that my daughter is not the only one suffering with mental issues in the NICU. Postpartum depression etc was rampant. You could see all the young mamas suffering. I couldn't believe they didn't have a procedure in place to check on these mamas who were not only stuck in a strange place (it was the only NICU that was capable of taking in these sick babies and caring for them) but many were ALONE because of most people needing to continue working while the babies were in NICU for long periods of time. So most of the mamas didn't have the support my daughter did from family members. THEN they release these very sick babies home with a mama that could be psychotic at this point. I told them that eventually something bad was going to happen to one of these babies and it would be ON THEM. People don't understand how intense NICU is. I actually took care of my granddaughter for 3 days while my daughter was taken home to her doctors to receive proper treatment. Her medications were in place when she came back and within a week she was stable and more calm. She was never a danger to her daughter, she was a danger to herself. It broke my heart watching all of these mamas suffering and no one checking on them to make sure THEY were taken care of. So So sad.
OHH yes! I was a nurse in a nursing home for 8 years before switching to pediatric patients. I was SO OFTEN the only nurse that could straddle them to give them the shots to calm them. Seriously so strong! We would have almost all of the skeletal staff on weekend night shift taking down an out of control elderly patient. THEY ARE STRONG. Full moons were the worst! It was nothing to get kicked, punched, bit, cussed at by some of the "most Christian" patients. I swear we deserved hazard pay! I loved my patients though even if they were very mentally ill. They couldn't help it most of the time.
It's really difficult to care for elderly pts with emotional problems. Later, I left the nsg home and began doing private duty with the elderly. After getting my LPN licence, I worked med-surg part time, then I went back to private duty with pediatric special needs pts. That's where my heart is! Been working in that field for the past 10 years. I never really thought mental health was my calling!
I am tellin ya - it not since I got here and then it took years to catch on -- LE really does not do all that much -- in any case -- they end up in la la land - and I did not get it until where we follow and follow I cant think of one case that has been solved or dealt with
Totally agree! Sick of hearing about Trump. Sick of hearing about the Kardashians too. So much gets hushed now. Journalism isn't what it used to be. I hate watching the news in fact. It's all BS. It's time to get back to true reporting. No bias.
