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/Assist-Fearless 20h ago

Mental health is the lowest thing on American health care. They take you to a room and take all your belongings and leave you alone with your thoughts until the doctor comes around maybe 5 hours later. They will not let you leave if they feel you will harm yourself. That's just the screening process.

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u/FurbyLover2010 20h ago

Oh I’m aware, I’ve sat for not just hours but days

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u/Assist-Fearless 20h ago

They give you random drugs to see which one will work? Plus I've read the nurses will rape the female patients.

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u/FurbyLover2010 20h ago

I don’t feel they do nearly enough before prescribing medication, you’ll mention something and boom they’ll immediately prescribe you something that is often used to treat similar symptoms with no further digging into finding the correct one. They’ll also assign random diagnoses that vaguely match your symptoms so they can prescribe stuff. I mentioned sleep and got prescribed a medication despite what I said having nothing to do with sleep issues. They do not care if you improve, they just want you to take medication so they can say something changed even if there’s another underlying issue and the feelings are valid. Never heard of rape happening though.

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u/Assist-Fearless 20h ago

It's hard to find a good psychiatrist. It's mostly trial and error until they find something that works. They gave me Seroquel for sleep I started dozing off driving the company vehicle and ended up losing the job because I was so tired and went to work late. They gave me another pill and I started hearing voices and another one I was suicidal.

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u/FurbyLover2010 20h ago

The idea in a place like that is they can quickly change your medication and figure out what works, the problem is you’ve been completely removed from the real world so it’s completely pointless because you’re in a completely different scenario and any changes won’t show. And they don’t care if you’ve been fine the whole time you’ve been there, they want to see change.

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u/Assist-Fearless 20h ago

So you basically have to fake being ok to get out .

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u/FurbyLover2010 20h ago

Even if you act completely ok if you’re the same as when you came in they want to see change. It’s possible to get out if you refuse treatment but it delays everything and it gets annoying to say no for the hundredth time.