Big Ed, for God's sake, let it go. Let's get a few things straight:
1) again, I meant no personal attack on you; I would appreciate it if you would cease & desist w/your attack on me. I am sure not everyone at DSH was a bad person who abused his or her power; unfortunately I had some bad experiences there with mental health workers, nurses, & one psychiatrist who did abuse their power.
2) If you read my original posting, you would see that I was not admitted to the Transition Unit "right off the street"--I was sent there after my insurance ran out at another hospital in Lynn. As I've stated two times, I was admitted to the Transition Unit and then, after a month or so, transferred to the first floor.
3) Don't you think it's a little silly that you insist on believing I am lying? I should doubt your "veracity" because you worked there & don't even know someone could come into the Transition Unit from another hospital. I spent from late '91 to the closing of DSH in the Bonner Bldg., and then I spent another 6 months in Tewksbury before I was finally released right before Christmas '92. I have many memories from those places and from that time in my life. I came to this website not intending to have this dispute w/you but to look at photos of a place I once lived in.
3) the shower was not my "main bitch." Don't take what I said so literally. Use some common sense.
Big Ed - Defensive much? I meant no personal attack on you; sorry you took it that way. That's my opinion on DSH, like it or not. As far as my veracity goes, I wish I were lacking it. Yes, I was admitted to the Transition Unit in 1991 (thank you for refreshing my memory on the name). I was not admitted to the second floor. It was late 1991. I was there for Christmas. My comment about the shower was intended to be "rich," actually . The fact that they made me take a shower at around 2 a.m. is a testament to the useless craphole that that place truly was...it was no better than a prison. Respectable psychiatric hospitals that actually provide treatment and employ educated, intelligent staff do not make you take a shower in the middle of the night upon admission. I can tell by your comments and defensiveness you are really "rich" yourself.
The basement of the Bonner building was used as a short-term ward. I was admitted there in 1991, after my insurance ran out at another mental hospital. All sorts of people came there--often guys in shackles would be admitted. I lived in the Bonner basement for a month or two, at which point I was transferred upstairs to a ward on the first floor. The night I was admitted they weighed me and made me strip and take a shower. I let them know I'd already showered that day...they didn't give a crap. Afterwards they gave me one of those little black combs. Needless to say, I am not able to comb my hair with one of those. These people--these nurses, "mental health workers," etc., were base, awful people. They were total dirtbags--the type with tattoos all over themselves, chains hanging from their belts, etc. Real scum. They had no skills to work in the real world so they abused their power at the nuthouse.
1) again, I meant no personal attack on you; I would appreciate it if you would cease & desist w/your attack on me. I am sure not everyone at DSH was a bad person who abused his or her power; unfortunately I had some bad experiences there with mental health workers, nurses, & one psychiatrist who did abuse their power.
2) If you read my original posting, you would see that I was not admitted to the Transition Unit "right off the street"--I was sent there after my insurance ran out at another hospital in Lynn. As I've stated two times, I was admitted to the Transition Unit and then, after a month or so, transferred to the first floor.
3) Don't you think it's a little silly that you insist on believing I am lying? I should doubt your "veracity" because you worked there & don't even know someone could come into the Transition Unit from another hospital. I spent from late '91 to the closing of DSH in the Bonner Bldg., and then I spent another 6 months in Tewksbury before I was finally released right before Christmas '92. I have many memories from those places and from that time in my life. I came to this website not intending to have this dispute w/you but to look at photos of a place I once lived in.
3) the shower was not my "main bitch." Don't take what I said so literally. Use some common sense.