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Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility?

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aMockTie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Yeah group activities were one of the better ways of dealing with boredom and passing the time. I feel like the coping skills provided were overly generic, but that’s to be expected when dealing with such a wide variety of people and issues.

The staff were absolutely always trying to do their best, there just weren’t enough of them. At both facilities I went to, the ratio was around 1:10 or worse (as in 10+ patients for every staff member).

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Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Exactly. I got to see it from both sides because my sister is a nurse for a facility like I was in as well.

I’d talk to her a lot on the phone. You know the phone with the super short cord you couldn’t hang yourself with lol

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- aMockTie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ah yes, the phone that is out in the open so everyone gets to hear your side of the conversation.
  
  I’m glad to hear that you’ve been doing better since then, and I hope your sister is doing well. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to work in a place like that.
  
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Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
On a sadder note I remover just walking laps around the area when I was bored and thinking about the animals in zoos that just pace back and forth because they’re cage is too small with nothing to do… so you just walk around…

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- aMockTie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah pretty much. I would also write out nerdy things like the ASCII table, or do the math to figure out how many seconds I had been at the facility, and stuff like that. Of course using paper they provided and those damn bendy pens.
  
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