r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bendubberley_ • 1d ago

A police officer in Mexico prevents someone's suicide attempt, on a bridge, with no safety equipment.

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u/AnonThrowawayProf 1d ago

Idk, they could do something big by separating the incredibly mentally unstable people there by force from those who have recognized they are not okay and checked themselves in willingly, and have protocols that address both populations, instead of having to treat everyone worse than dog. My facility was also really dirty with nurses fighting behind the desk in front of the whole ward. It was a government insurance funded hospital. These wards are just money grabbers, they don’t actually help people. I still have nightmares two years later. I have visited so many psych hospitals in my dreams. Luckily the dreams have finally lessened in severity and quantity but it was definitely traumatic to be going through the worst time in your life, check yourself in, only to realize they are going to treat you more like a badly behaved child than a full grown adult seeking real help.

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u/TechTheLegend_RN 21h ago

Local hospitals in my area do that. Everyone is on one unit together, but if someone is extremely agitated or acute they are separated off from everyone else until they are stable.

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u/Ruzhy6 21h ago

Only way for that to get better is with more funding. Glad you're doing better now.

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u/doggietv123 1d ago

This would all take manpower lots of hours funding planning all things that are very hard to do with people who are incredibly sporadic and have psychotic behaviour I get where you’re coming fromI wish they could treat them better too but it’s just the reality of the mentally ill there’s not much you can do with them but protect them from themselves

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u/AnonThrowawayProf 1d ago

And what makes you the expert? You ever stayed in one? Worked in one? Let’s just shrug our shoulders and say whelp, nothing can be done it’s fine? Maybe we should think “even though not much can be done right now, it is still not okay”

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u/supreme-manlet 1d ago

Just because you stayed in one doesn’t make you an expert on how to better run the place lmfao

And I say this as someone who has been there

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u/AnonThrowawayProf 1d ago

It sure as hell makes you someone who can contribute credible, firsthand experience. I’ve been on advisory committees that bring on these same kind of people (not for a psych ward, for social services type things) to check for advice/experience before making a final decision. So if we were both on an advisory committee, both our opinions would help shape decisions.

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u/doggietv123 1d ago

I’m not a dog either but I understand keeping a dog in a pond is inhumane I never said I was an expert but the cold heart truth is we don’t have enough workers or funding for mental health services yet it’s still being worked on

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u/AnonThrowawayProf 1d ago

Well yeah I know what the cold hearted truth is. That’s literally what my original comment was espousing

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u/doggietv123 1d ago

We can all just be glad they don’t lobotomize people anymore as far as I’m aware of

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u/AnonThrowawayProf 1d ago

We can definitely agree to that.