Arbour HRI Hospital: Were there cameras in the bathrooms and showers?

December 15, 2014


Male activities therapist, October 20, 2014:

I had no idea how negatively he was portraying me in the notes that he wrote about me in my chart.  He did everything that he could to support the idea that the treatment plan written for me by the doctor and the social worker was justified. The treatment plan was automatically at the beginning of each section; everyone who wrote notes in my chart saw it whenever he or she wrote a note.


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Female activities therapist, October 17, 2014:

I feel guilty when I don't tell other patients or homeless people that there might be hidden cameras where there is supposed to be privacy.  When I tell people, then someone who has authority says that I'm paranoid.


Male activities therapist, October 17, 2014:

Female activities therapist, October 16, 2014:

Almost everyone in a mental hospital is overmedicated.  You try staying awake sometime, when you're full of medication.

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Male activities therapist, October 14, 2014:

How much tolerance did this activities therapist think I should have had?  He had no tolerance for me, most of the time.  Whenever I said a word, he found something to criticize about what I said; not to my face, but in almost every note that he wrote in my chart.  I never said I knew everything, nor did I insist that people unquestioningly accept my thoughts about what they said.  I was also not unsympathetic to the plight of the confused patient described in the first part of the note.  We were at the same unit for a few days, and he was obviously having a lot of mental problems.  Of course, it looked bad for the activities therapist that the group he was facilitating got out of control; was that why he accused me of being hypersensitive to the situation?  He knew he could put the focus of the incident on me by making it sound as if I were overreacting; I was a patient, he was an employee.


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Female activities therapist, October 9, 2014:

A lot of people get upset when women try to set healthy boundaries.  This hospital was no exception.
 

 

It shouldn't be like that, should it?  Shouldn't people feel empowered about their lives when they leave the hospital, rather than having spent all their time in the hospital fending off everything from condescension to forced medication?  It's the latter for a lot of people, though, and many of them aren't able to defend themselves.  They leave the hospital with all the problems they had before, with the additions of side effects and a label that makes them vulnerable to being taken advantage of by just about everyone. 

 

It's one of the reasons that people kill themselves; they have been told that they are the problem so many times that either they believe it or they despair of ever getting help that helps them. 

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Male activities therapist, October 9, 2014:

"Fallacy of fairness:  falsely believing things should always end fairly" was on the handout that this activities therapist gave the group.  It was part of a list of other things described as thought distortions.

 

Was there a reason that I should have listened to this guy?  I know that things often don't end fairly; that doesn't mean that there's something wrong with me because I think they should.

 

 

Copyright, with noted exceptions, December 15, 2014 @ 8:31 p.m.