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

I’m meaning that the treatment you receive at psych facilities shouldn’t feel punitive. Mine was basically jail and the staff members uncaring even though I was as easy of a patient as it gets. Even tho I checked my own self in.

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u/supreme-manlet 1d ago

Yeah but imagine what they deal with normally

Incredibly mentally unstable people who aren’t there willingly. Of course they ave to follow strict, jail like, protocol. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to keep the place functioning properly

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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/Ruzhy6 21h ago

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