Search Terms

I have decided to compile a post incorporating some search terms that have been used to find this blogs and my thoughts, comments and responses to them.

Admitting self to mental hospital

This is bloody hard to do. Somehow the psychiatric services know when you want to be admitted and do everything in their power to ensure you aren’t. However, when the last thing you could ever want to do is be admitted then they suggest admission straight up. In practice most places now have Crisis Resolution Teams, or Home Treatment Teams, to cut down on the number of people admitted because they don’t have the beds, which isn’t what the government will tell you, they’ll say it’s because service users (sic) – I hate that phrase – prefer to be treated at home. However, this search term proves that sometimes people want to be admitted.

Is tramacet used to keep patients quiet?

Tramacet is rarely prescribed as a drug as a first-line treatment, it is usually only prescribed a long way down the line. This is because it is expensive to the NHS as a compound and the individual ingredients (paracetamol and tramadol) are much cheaper to prescribe as individual generics. I could not say if it is used to placate patients. It is a opiate (tramadol) and this tends to have a calming and sedative effect on the majority of people so it could have the benefit of quietening disruptive patients. However, I think that haloperidol is probably better at doing this and tramacet wouldn’t be used for fear of liver damage due to the paracetamol found in the compound.

Tubigrip A&E don’t

A&E don’t tubigrip patients? Well it probably costs too much money. When I broke my big toe at uni I got told by A&E that they weren’t going to give me crutches as I was a student and I’d only run off with them. Some ankle/foot/wrist/elbow injuries aren’t treated with tubigrips anymore. Things like bone chips are often treated by leaving the swelling to come out and then apply a crepe bandageto stabilise. The problem with tubigrip is that when a joint is swollen it’s difficult to get the right size. Maybe you meant don’t go to A&E for a tubigrip which is particularly sound advice asmost major pharmacies, supermarkets and chain shops will sell a tubigrip so you don’t need to bother some poor harassed junior doctor for a piece of elasticated bandage.

How to not be clumsy

When someone has the answer to this question I will be eternally delighted. I guess look where you are going, don’t leave things lying around and remove all elements of danger are tactics that I have used. However, I find accepting your clumsiness and getting used to the bruises is a good plan too.

Throw yourself under Tube train

Don’t do this. I don’t advocate it. It’s very messy, extremely traumatic for the driver, annoying for the Tube passengers and disrupts the line for a while whilst they have to fish you out. Plus the tracks are electrocuted so if the impact of the train doesn’t get you then you will be frazzled, and even that might not work. In short, not a good plan. I’m not pro-suicide, I’m pro-choice but I do think if you are going to kill yourself that do something that doesn’t directly involve other people in your decision.

Psych ward knitting competition

I doubt this would be allowed as knitting needles could be seen as either a ‘sharp’ or ‘lethal weapon’. Anyway I can’t knit. Never have been able to, have tried to learn but get bored. If I was on a psych ward though and there was a knitting competition the ‘click-click-clackety-clackety-clack’ of the needles would drive me insane and I’d probably just go around making bad references to Madame Defarge.

Unusual self harm

This begs the question, is there such a thing as usual self-harm? I mean surely everyone’s self-harm is personal and tailored to their own specific needs, wants and requirements. I know people who won’t self-harm if they don’t have an entire first-aid kit. I know people who won’t self-harm if they can’t make the scars symmetrical or identical. I know people who don’t give a damn about those things but can only use a razor. I know people who will use anything to inflict any kind of damage onto themselves in any location.

Ruth

Blogroll Update

I was going to write a post today about my drug (mis)use, but it needs careful planning so expect it later on either today or tomorrow.

However, I have updated the blogroll at the side of the blog to accommodate some newcomers to this blog, particularly those who have posted comments as it seems only fair.

Ruth

Edit: Whilst waiting for my own post on the subject may I suggest that you check out this post on Experimental Chimp’s blog which makes perfect sense and sums up my opinions perfectly.