ive had wine and i got mental hospital fun....

[01vnms4v]

Story 1......

Lets hear it

[exlude]

Do they really offer jello and cartoons? I've been curious and that's what my shrink told me when she was trying to sell me on it

I've visited a couple Soldiers at 11 West (William Beaumont's mental ward), and I don't remember any cartoons or jello. You could, however, watch movies from a huge (non-war related) DVD collection.

[Jester]

okay, so lets start with day one the first act I shall call it. lol So, i arrive at the beautiful place that is the VA mental facility. I decided to check myself in since it did wonders for my nephew at the time. Upon arriving i thought this was gonna be a quick little visit to test to see if I was actually needing to be admitted.....figured I would be in and out within and hour. Not so.
Quickly I find myself in some scrubs and some of those footy socks with the little rubber things on them to keep you from slipping.

[Jester]

I had a room with 2 beds and 2 chairs......the chairs are made of grey rubber and are so fucking heavy that you cannot lift if you decide you want to throw it. For some reason, my mental state at the time was full on helpful mode. I decided my room needed some Fend Shui......I scooted the heavey chairs into a more comfortable position into the room.....more inviting, if you will. Also, the curtains were held onto the rods with velcro so if you decided to rip them off.....well, they came right off. I tied my sock around each curtain to give them more of a hotel room feel. I followed that with rolling all of my towels and washrags(they were on the grey rubber shelf mounted on the wall) into rolls so it would give it a nice hotel/spa feel. lol

[Leah]

You should have just started this thread in the Hall of Fame.

Dr. Pepper out the nose=achieved.

Well played, sir.



Levi, is this recent?

[Jester]

I find myself extremely happy to be there to the point of almost being euphoric. The nurses were very polite and didnt mind the fact at all that all i wanted to do was walk around the halls and stare out the windows at the very pretty grass and trees that were in the court yard below. I said hello to every nurse that walked by with a smile on my face.

[Jester]

Dr. Pepper out the nose=achieved.

Well played, sir.



Levi, is this recent?

No, this is a couple years ago.

[Trip McNeely]

Fend Shui......

feng shui

[David]

How'd you masterbate in a straight jacket??

[Jester]

By day two I am not quite sure where my mind set was. I found myself in a place with...well....crazy people. I guess I fit right in with my cheshire grin and my natural born serial killer eyes.......I cant help my eyes....a dog bit me when I was 10 and ever since then it gave me a look that has been described by everyone close to me as serial killer. i dont mean to look like a serial killer.....just happens. makes meeting new people frustrating.

anyway.... so, I am on some good meds by then and i am in a happy place. I have taken it upon myself to be the guy that cheers up everyone else. Well, it worked! This place is filled with veterans and veterans only. The guys that have seen bad shit and are here to get fixed.
I had this very innocent and sweet person that was very lost in this world. You could tell he was an officer or of higher rank in another world but somethign he saw or did has put him here. He was very upset by the fact that his shower curtain was not closing all the way and more upset that the nurses were not fixing it. this problem was fucking his whole world up. I went into his room......drug his 2000lb chair over to the shower so i could get on it, climbed it, and rehung his simple velcro shower curtain so this man could shower in peace. When i told him of this and he inspected it, he thought I was the most amazing man on the planet. He mentioned his curtains so I fixed them as well.

[Jester]

feng shui

typo

[Jester]

what you mainly find is VERY frustrated guys that cant do simple things, but what they can do is snap your neck like a chicken in less than a second. I had a Navy Seal that was ready to wage war on my little friend that had the problem with the curtain. I had found out by the end of the day that the curtain guy had seen his friend killed in front of him and was a POW.......he also has lost his mother the day before......he handled all of this news by talking nonstop to whoever would listen to him.......this annoyed the SEAL.....until I told him about what the other guy had gone thru. You could see the man soften the second I said it.

It was then I realized I was not surrounded by mental patients.....
I was surrounded by heroes.

[Jester]

There was a black guy in a wheel chair that was very loud and you couldnt understand him....everyone gave him a whole lot of room. He was released the day after I got there.....and was brought back the day before I was released. He spent his time in a room alone with a guard. he was naked in the room and shit everywhere.......no idea what this man had gone thru to land him in his little room.

[Jester]

By the evening of the 3rd day, my mind was playing tricks on me and I literally found myself thinking I was in the Matrix. I stopped a nurse from shutting a door in my face and had every intention of removing her from my way but something inside of me made me freeze and screamed at me not to hurt her. Thankfully I was able to call my older brother and talk to him. I asked him if I was suppossed to break out of here......he laughed and said "no little brother, these people are on your side and are there to take care of you. Relax and do what they say because they are helping you." Thats all I needed to get cozy and wait it out. dedicated the rest of my time to talking to nurses and patients and helping them as much as I could.

[Forever_frost]

It's amazing how the little things will bother the fuck out of you when you're in that state. And a chair that is a fraction of an inch off......and you can't figure it out for a few hours, absolutely maddening