Exactly. I've seen it personally myself, and with the lady I observed doing this I respected her belief and ensured every single time I held her 'baby', I did with the upmost care and never took 'her' away from her without permission. For example, when 'her baby' was dirty I asked if I could give her a bath, and I would bring her straight back. I was given permission (though she watched me with such intense ness it was difficult to not give the 'baby' a proper clean). I got 'her' clean and dry and gave her back, smelling like soap and fluffed up with a towel. She ended up being the only one she trusted with her 'baby'.
Years ago had a resident with a pessary. We always knew when it came out because she would holler, "Clyde, get the car! The baby is coming!" We would put the pessary back in, hand her a doll and she would turn over and go to sleep.
I was a psychiatric nurse from 1971 until I retired, it’s the saddest, cruelest combination of illnesses, poor poor folks. Don’t forget, nobody chooses crazy. To us these are stories, to the patients it’s their life.
In the early 80's my mom worked in an emergency room, there was a psych patient who escaped the nearby facility. He was found on the highway eating roadkill. It took 6 cops and 100ft of rope to get him into the car. 3 cops were bitten and had to have a series of rabies shots. Thanks for the dinner conversation mom!
My mom worked at Stanford hospital in the 70s, and every night at dinner she would "entertain" us with the grossest events of the day. I learned to choke down any food I liked as fast as possible, before she got into the gory details...my dad would "freshen up" his drink about 9 times to deal. Today I have a stomach of cast iron, I've heard it all and nothing happening can make me sick anymore, which has come in very handy, especially since everything makes my husband sick, so throwing up pets, gross accidents or emergencies don't throw me anymore, but I also don't ever eat much anymore either...
I actually have the disease of pulling my hair. I have severe ptsd and when I go through traumatic events I pull all my hair out. I have episodes where I'm completely fine. Like now all my hair has grown back. But I still catch myself pulling. Its very hard to deal with. But I've learned to embrace my disorders.
I got lucky and got a disorder that doesn’t cause me harm I’m just constantly daydreaming to the point where it can often alter my memories or people will catch me doing gestures or whispering to myself it’s called maladaptive daydreaming
I don’t have any diagnosed disorders but I have a habit of standing up in the middle of the night and just running from wall to wall in my bedroom I don’t realise whagg to I’m doing or feel my legs moving until I get yelled at for making noise my mother is always telling me to control it but how are you supposed to control something you can’t feel or don’t realise your doing??life is weird sometimes
My cousin worked in a drug detox center in Houston and told me a story of a man who checked himself in to get clean. He started vomiting profusely due to the detox so the nurses would give him shots to help with the nause. He obviously had a reaction to it that caused very vivid hallucinations. His room was white bricks with a purple grapevine border around the room about chest high. My cousin said the patient thought he saw squirrels running around trying to eat the grapes but couldn't break them off the vine so the patient wore his fingertips down to the nubs digging and clawing at the grapes to help the squirrels eat. My cousin said blood was everywhere and it took 3 guards to get the guy under control. It's crazy what the mind can do.
I previously was employed as a Correctional Officer for the state of West Virginia. And having worked there for only 2 years, I was surprised with the amount of things I seen, truly horrible when the state decides a person is more fit to go to jail/ prison instead of a mental institution I’ve seen people basically loose all hope and some die in some horrible ways. It’s kinda of an eye opener for sure.
My dad worked as one, too. Told me some messed up things. Had human bodily fluids thrown at him a few times, too. Too weird stuff to recount. A scary story he told me that stood out, though, were about a few of the older inmates who were in prison their whole lives without committing a crime were there because they were abandoned as babies by their own parents because the parents didn't want them. They were treated like criminals, the same as the other inmates, and weren't allowed to leave. Because of the way they grew up, they all suffered from psychological problems, and were prone to self-harm and other disturbing behavior. Heard that, up to decades back (not sure about now), people sometimes did the same with their unwanted children by abandoning them in mental asylums.
@@Youre_gay6047 Umm not really sure what or how I felt but seeing a few dudes get their skills beaten in with heavy plastic trays left it’s marks on me or maybe the time I had to be the one who found and had to stay with a guy that was literally dying in my arms and having to try to resuscitate him and not knowing if he made it though after he left in the ambulance.
I work at a very infamous Psychiatric hospital in the northeast. I have been there 5 years can’t even count all the deeply disturbing things I have seen there. However it is a great job and I plan on finishing out my career there.
I normally have a strong stomach to stories like this, but damn, these affected me more than I can say. I've had experience with people who have mental health issues, having been a former carer. Thankfully, I've never had to deal with what some of the nurses in these stories had to, but it is still frightening when someone begins to lose their sense of reality. One story I have is I cared for a woman who was showing signs of schizophrenia and when me and a other carer tried to care for her, she tried to claw my face off, trying to punch and kick us, growled at me and called me "devil child" and the other carer "satan's worker". She also kept jabbing her fingers at the air shouting "go away" looking erracitly around. I knew then she was having a episode. Needless to say, we waited until she was coming out of her episode, informed the nurse in charge and I told her what I thought was going on with her mental health and she soon calmed down. I don't know what happened with her in the end, but it was so heartbreaking for us both to see her suffering like that.
To the staff of these facilities, you have my upmost respect. My first time being admitted was lowkey traumatizing because the staff was horribly neglectful and rude. My most recent time was the total opposite. The staff was so kind and respectful towards everyone and it really made the whole experience more comfortable and not scary and I’ll always be grateful for that. Y’all are making a difference ❤️
Oh Lindsay I could tell u stories about some of our Alzheimer’s/psych residents I wouldn’t know where to begin!? We have a resident who literally says, “the baby, the baby, the baby” over and over and over like it’s all she says. I also had a resident who had Down syndrome and God bless her we had to keep all objects away from her b/c she’d do harmful things with them b/c she was sexually abused as a child...I mean nursing is not for the squeamish and it’s hard to not break down at times!!
Watching what it did to my extremely religious and kind grandpa I can only imagine. Thank you for doing that I don't believe anybody in my family had ever suffered from it at least as far as we knew I don't know if it's hereditary or not but it completely changed him
Yes Lori B. The Geriatric Unit was the hardest for me.. Elderly experiencing the "Sundowner" moment. The men that had wonderful careers as respected lawyers, doctors and architects- pounding their fists on the sink because they couldn't remember how to unzip their pants to pee in the toilet.. For me it was so heart wrenching.
Schizophrenic people have different symptoms and different experiences with the illness. I personally have both auditory and visual hallucinations. It’s like having someone that only you know about trying to talk to you 24/7. You know how’s there’s usually that one kid in school that is ALWAYS talking. It’s like that except only you can hear/see them. Sometimes it’s easier to bare, like when the voices are just trying to chat. Other times their urging you to do some pretty awful things. At times it can get to the point we’re you get migraines from both the stress and the voices. It’s hard but you can learn to cope with it through meds and therapy.
My grandma used to work at a mental hospital and this one time she was working when she saw a man with his face cut off. She screamed and called for backup. My grandma ran into a room nearby cause she was terrified. Some nurses went to go see what happened. They found my grandma curled up in a ball. They told her no one was there. A few days after that, she was talking to one of the other nurses when she brought up what happened. The woman told her that once a man cut off his face cause he swore something was scratching at his eyes. After that some people reported that a man with his face cut off would watch them and sometimes run at them. After that my grandma quit her job.
My heart breaks for these people! Unfortunately so many were abused daily and/or neglected because of something they had no control over. It’s very sad! I pray they are now pain free and at peace with The Lord. God Bless everyone!
Especially when the nurse asked a doctor what she could inject that will cause maximum pain. Awful, evil and downright disgusting. What I don't understand is if you no longer have the heart to help then quit.. No one is forcing them to work at an asylum.
I've been in a mental hospital five years ago. Granted it was low security but I can happily report that things have GREATLY improved since those days. I was just like the woman with the doll. I had a baby girl stillborn at seven months and I bought a so very real doll I called innocence the same as my daughter. I bought it for comfort at first but started losing grip on reality. My local priest had me sectioned when I lost it when he refused to baptise my 'baby'. I was screaming at him that he was possessed by the devil and was trying to steal my baby's soul. While I was in hospital my mum went to my house and removed all the baby stuff like pram, car seat, toys, clothes, bottles etc and donated it all. I'll always be grateful to the hospital, the priest and my mum because without them I don't know where I'd be. Of course I still grieve for my little girl but in a proper healthy way and am starting to heal
@Sandra Slate Same. The way they treated these people back then should be classified as crimes. Most of them actually didn't have anything wrong with them in the first place, like they were down on their luck, which has to do with external factors beyond their control, or something unrelated like they're alcoholics (no such thing as rehab in those days) or got around. Of course, there were some occasional people in there who might've actually been typical, but if they weren't crazy before being put in these places of torture, they definitely would be after spending time there. People don't get better in places like these. Makes me wonder how much better things would've been had these people been treated like PEOPLE instead of "patients."
A lot of times when someone is psychic or a medium that speaks to the dead, they will be deemed crazy. A lot of them are miss diagnosed as schizophrenia because they talk to people that others can’t see. It happened a lot before asylums we’re monitored and held accountable for the awful things they did. In nursing school, that was one of the first things we studied. I have a theory about the witch trials also. I think a lot of those women had some sort of abilities and of course they overreacted. I think I was one of those women in another life.
Came here to say this, my mom told me not to tell anyone if we see anything because they'll lock us away. My mom's family is like this but we don't talk about it
@@Neongummybearss it’s sad that you can’t talk about it. Sometimes it helps just to get it out. I waited til I was in my 30s to tell people I could see ghosts and spirits. Sometimes there are mental illnesses that cause hallucinations and at one time I worried about that. I’m way past that now though.
@RickTheRedBrick Snooker Thank you for being respectful. But in another sentence you said get therapy. Do you think she needs therapy because she sees things others don’t or to get help with how close minded people treat people like us? It doesn’t bother me now but when I was younger and would be told it was just my imagination, I would be really confused. And the look you get when you think you can share but that person calls you crazy. Therapy would come in handy for that.
My cousin worked as a psychiatric nurse in the UK. She told me a tale, as a child, about a female patient of hers. Apparently if she got her hands on anything sharp - knitting needles, wire coat hangers, pens and cutlery were mentioned - she’d violently stab herself, internally shall we say, in her womb… She traumatised me with horror films too, but she was 💯 my coolest cousin
Ok.. so these are normal weeks in psychiatric wards. I had a patient who showed bars of soap in her utterly giving her constant diarrhea. No, when we realized what she was doing we took them away. A day in a life at work. Have respect for all within those walls.
once when I was in a mental hospital (I'm a minor and it was suicide watch I'm not crazy) one of the ppl told us that they had poop thrown at them in the adult unit and that alone concerned me
I live right by byberry hospital. I still remember when they closed the doors. They opened the doors to the patients and told everyone to get out. Yep that's it. They all roamed the streets. People wanted to visit the abandoned hospital but they leveled it . It was a scary time
This one will keep me up to night, your videos are the only ones that can do it.fantastic job Lindsay. Where would we be with out the workers in these places.god keep them safe.
That’s a disputed theory, other theory is coming from the Yankee Stadium formerly resembling an oval so the left field was where the action wasn’t happening so, so it means a rare occurrence
@3:27 that is the USA nurse who was arrested for refusing to draw blood from an unconscious patient without their consent. She’s actually kind of a hero and put her entire career on the line for what was morally right.
She was a psycho needing attention. She was not a DOCTOR. The doctor had a reason to want the blood draw. I'm just happy she wasn't a first responder. Lots of unconscious patients and there she would smugly sit there because 'no consent'
@@debbylou5729 That isn’t what happened at all. What really happened is that the police asked the nurse to draw the blood of an unconscious patient so that they could have an alcohol blood reading to arrest them for the accident. It is against medical protocol to perform any procedure without the consent of the patient, therefore as the drunk driver was unconscious, they could not consent. This is why the nurse was arrested. This really happened.
When I was in a mental hospital I learned that some of the patients in the hospital were prisoners. I had a roommate who was moved from a prison into the hospital.
As a young child my daughter had an extreme fear of dentist. Dont know why. But once she came of age of losing her baby teeth she would pull them out herself. We took her to the dentist, many different ones, and was told the same thing that she had extreme fear of dentists and to keep an eye on her. Finally is subsided once we found one that would put her under anesthesia. She is now 17 and can go by herself. Still dont know why she had the fear but glad she overcame it. She pulled out over half of her baby teeth. Yes we tried everything we could think of to get her to stop.
Yes they were just baby teeth, but if she still had the habit of pulling out her teeth she will probably pull out permanent teeth out so it’s very very good that she stopped that habbit
I still have severe dental phobia, have had since I was around 11 or 12. I am 22 now and it's only gottan worse with time. It is truly horrible, I so glad that that she no longer suffers from it.
Fun fact: you can bite off your fingers as easy as biting through a carrot. It’s only your brain that stops you doing this. So the fingers story is really plausible.
@@ClockWithoutNumbers I don't know what you mean by that. Having no empathy isn't cool. I don't know why so many of you are so proud to admit you have no feelings for others suffering. This is one of the worst comments sections I've seen.
I think the darkest thing is the amount of abuse and mistreatment these people went through. The patients most likely couldn't completely control (or in certain cases didn't care) about the things they did to themselves (or sometimes others). They're still people that deserve respect, dignity, and fair treatment and it makes me sad that they had to go through what they did just because of things outside their control.
"if you are eating food put it away" me: eh im fine. me: continues to eat ice cream- "she was sitting on the floor, smiling, holding her own eyes" me: spits food out and sobs
One of my grandfathers had schizophrenia and he went to a phsych ward and they preformed the electric shock therapy on him and then years later after they believed he still had delusions and stuff but he always denied it because he didn’t want to go threw that pain again, even though they explained that they don’t do that anymore and that they would just give him meds…
Could you do videos on top ten goosebumps episodes and what is thought to be their backstories? Or a video on deep fakes and the terrifying potential it has in the near future?
18:00 I have a relative that was a patient at Waverly Hills Sanitarium and the only reason she survived was because she became pregnant and it pushed all of her organs into place. So if she wouldn't have become pregnant, she might've been one of the bodies in the death tunnel herself.
Linsay made me subscribe and i adore all of her videos even when they sometimes creeps me as this one! Just the way she talks about the stories included and the way she relates sometimes getting out of content 🥰
I've worked in a psych hospital back in the 80's, I've witnessed ECT, Growling girls that drank rubbing alcohol, patients that had their partners come to visit just to inject the patient with water from their fish aquarium. I bathed a catatonic lady who literally stood for several hrs and never moved, or ate. I've taken care of 2-3 yr old children with failure to thrive and 6 yr old with schizoaffective disorder. and it just goes on. Please support Mental Health Awareness it comes in all shapes and sizes, race and age. Everyone has a story that not everyone has heard and may not understand. It's not a freak show. It's reality.
@@cgravely8487 gotcha nose is a little game parents used to do to their child/children. The face snatcher just gives a whole new meaning to gotcha nose.
Through I'm a American and that we say intestines like we suppose to say, I even would say like Canadians would say of intestines. So your not alone Lindsay. 😅
Other words that other countries like England and Australia would like Canada and that I even was saying that they would say through I'm a American. Again I even sometimes would intestines like that.
@@Marie19980, in some parts of the US, if you pronounce intestines the way she did it is thought you are from a "hillbilly"/"back hills"/"deep country" area.
My former wife worked at the Danvers State Hospital, in Danvers Mass. - I worked at Hogan Reginal hospital, just down the hill from the hospital. That was a walk down memory lane. Thanks.
Hi, I know that these stories are for scary entertainment purposes but I just want people to understand that this is not how all mental institutes are. Not everyone is “insane” and a lot of people who work in psych wards enjoy working there, I was a patient a couple times for trying to unalive myself awhile back, I’m okay and it all good now, but while I was there I made some friends with the staff and other patients and not everyone has the same gruesome story, most of the time the staff was very nice except for a couple people but whatever. The institutes have different sections for different types of patients and sometimes you have roommates so you aren’t alone, and the staff are assigned to different sections based on their mental capacity and qualifications for different patients. I just wanted to clarify and say that it isn’t as awful as they seem. And if you took the time to read this you deserve a cookie.🍪
When I was on a psych ward, we had a patient come in which was always shouting and saying crazy things. It was alright for the staff, they could go home, but the ward was our home. We got a break when the patient was asleep. It wasn't long until the other patients were trying to convince staff to move her off the ward and we got frustrated when staff defended her and seemed to downplay the reality of living on the ward with that patient. None of us had behaved like that on the ward, and we were all mentally ill. The patient got one to one eventually and overtime she improved drastically. She left on the same day I did and by that time we all loved her.
I wake up with this pain coming from my arm. Turns out I’m attacking myself in my sleep. I don’t know why I do this but I’ll always leave marks on myself!
I noticed that you mentioned ECT like it was a thing of the past. I am from real Virginia in the Appalachian mountains and I have news for you. In local hospitals ECT is still practiced and people are still placed in rubber rooms. I have received treatment myself in the past for terrible depression and PTSD as the result of an abusive childhood and saw patients being brought back from ECT in wheelchairs doing their impressions of "One Flew Over the Coo Coo's Nest" Jack Nicholas. This happened between 2001 and 2010 at St. Albain's mental hospital. I pity those patients convinced by doctors that this was a safe and effective solution for depression. I made sure that I included in my records that I would never give consent for this treatment. I am 48 now and have learned to handle my depression and PTSD in healthy ways. Unfortunately the trauma caused by the medical profession is a different manner. I can attest to what I consider negligent treatment of myself and other patients, one who even managed to shoot himself AFTER being admitted. He should have been searched at least 4 times before he was brought up to the wing where he did so. After witnessing this I was banned from ever being treated at that particular facility ever again. I guess it doesn't pay to have a Socialwork student present if you are going to mishandle patients.😔🤫🤐
What's crazy is the baby carrot part. We cam bite through our fingers like carrots but our brain tells us not too. I heard that in school years back and now I'm just stunned that he compared them to baby carrots
I lived in the US for while and I worked as a paramedic, we did a lot of psych transfers. The patients that were the most frightening were those that believed themselves to be possessed. Sometimes they would hurt themselves terribly, sometimes they would just scream. Satanic things at me. It was scary, but I pointed out to a few that, if they were truly a demon, they would do better keeping quiet and being able to do things in the world because screaming “I am Satan“ means they’re going to be spending all of their time in a psychiatric hospital.
I've heard of those asylums. My friend and I always wanted to go Waverly Hills! They used to do overnight stays for the ghost attracted don't know if they still do.
One of the scariest things about mental facilitys is teenage suicide wards sad and disturbing at the same time but some of these of the kids do the help they need and the teenage self mutilators is also sad and disturbing but there is help available
When I was 12 in 2007-2008 I had to be put into one of those hospitals for children and teens that had went through trauma that couldn't be kept at home due to being violent with those around me (parents, family, etc). The entire floor of the hospital I was on did have dormitory like rooms each patient was housed in, daily psychiatry visits, various group therapy activities, art therapy, etc. Though not necessarily as eerie as any cases mentioned in video but there was a room on each floor called the "Quiet Room" or "timeout room:" where there was only a padded bed with restraints, with padded walls and floor too. I had to stay 3 weeks at this place before I was returned home
I use to run a nursing home about a decade ago and I noticed probably between 4-8 of the resident's on the Porter wing carried around babydolls and would belive that they're real.They would talk,feed and bounce/rock them like you would a baby.The Porter wing is a hall that is for severe behavior disorders influenced by Dementia/Alzheimer's and Bi-polar and or Schizophrenia so you have to find some way to keep them distracted otherwise they will get very physical and hit other residents or hit staff and it would happen quite often when sundowners would kick in.Simple but affective method for distraction.
Watching the list of asylums/mental hospital... I was waiting to see if Pennhurst would show up...yup. Was big news when I lived in PA. I also recall watching a videotape of I believe an expose by some news team about Pennhurst when I worked at a facility for intellectually disabled kids & adults (some wild stories of my own...). Heartbreaking.
Electric Current Therapy (ECT) is still done today. I’ve been through it. I had 12 sessions done. Of course it’s a lot safer now and you’re under anesthesia but there are side affects. I lost quite a bit of my memory (past and present). I even had to learn how to use my laptop, mobile phone etc. again; however, some people have no side affects at all. Most people who get it these days are severely depressed or bi-polar. They say it cures bi-polar disorder. I don’t know because I had to stop before all of my sessions were completed due to the memory loss. It’s also done as outpatient after the first 3 sessions.
I’ve been thru the mental health system as a patient multiple times, and BELIEVE ME! I’ve seen and been thru my share of the most terrifying things in those so called “helpful places!”
Same I have been there too. Lukely I did not experience anything like that. In one station people were banging against the wall and screaming but that was all and I have been there for only one day. (Due to Corona they needed to take the PCR-test and that is where they did it. I also had to wait for the result. ). But another patient told me stories of things she had witnessed (like someone jumping out of a balcony or getting a heart attack).
I also don't like these places. They are not helpful at all. I just behaved and did everything I could to be released as soon as possible. Well after causing a lot of trouble like escaping or drinking alcohol.
They are a lot better than they used to be. When I was a student nurse, I did my psych rotation at a state hospital which is now closed. These people were there for 40-50years. They didn't have any therapy. They were allowed to smoke back then so they ALL smoked and ran up to you and got in your face every 5 minutes saying "gotta light, gotta light?" And on the men's unit they would come up to you and slam you against the wall and grab your breasts. 19 yrs old, that first day I was having second thought lol
