He knows that nobody is going to stop him.

February 4, 2015

I was screamed at tonight, by both staff people at once, when I was asking for help in getting the male patient who had harassed me all day to stop.  He saw me getting screamed at by them, and, like all of the other people who have harassed me for the past five years, he knows that nobody will stop him and that I'll be treated badly if I ask anyone to stop him.

This morning, the assistant director of the unit told me to talk to staff about the incidents rather than to try to confront the patient.  When I tried to tell staff tonight, I was told that he wasn't doing it deliberately, which he certainly is, and then, when his abuse of me escalated, I was screamed at for trying to get staff to stop him.

He just coughed outside my room again.

I'm sure that the first sound I hear tomorrow morning will be him, coughing outside my room.

Copyright L. Kochman, February 4, 2015 @ 8:03 p.m.