Mental Illness of Choice

[thbarnes]

Open ended topic starter.

What mental illness do YOU suffer from?

What diagnoses do you encounter most?

What patients do you find the most interesting, obnoxious, etc.?

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[JPINFV]

I've always had problems with transporting schizoaffectives. One was just completely out of it, and another that I've transported started to have a really bad mood swing (his mom, who rode with us thankfully, shut him up).

[nsmedic393]

When I get a psych call nine times in 10 its a bipolar patient. I guess I am just blesses. :roll: They are by far I think the most challenging but they make for some great stories.

[echo-000]

I don't have a whole lot of experience with the mentally ill, but I think I can touch on the subject of PTSD. I got slammed into by an SUV while in my compact car two weeks ago, totalled it. I suffered some wiplash, a sore face from the airbag (damn they are wicked little things,) and a bruised abdomen from the seat belt. The worst of it was how I felt afterwards though. Very nervous getting behind the wheel, or even riding in a car. Being in the ambulance isn't so bad, as long as I'm not driving, but still...

stay safe

[windsong]

I have a agoraphobia/claustophobia and if you had to collar/board me, better get out your best drugs because I will fight you on it. Something that happened to me when I was 7 yrs old and because I'm an adult today, I live with this, I do take medication for it.

But I dont consider it a mental illness.

[hammerpcp]

There is nothing worse then a paranoid who actually has someone out to get them.

[MrSpykes]

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for alcoholics. There is just so many different moods alcoholics can be in. I have had the ones that just sit back and go for the ride right up to the ones that have been binging on whiskey for a week and not eating and are now seeing snakes come out of the ceiling. The snake guy was actually kind of funny because we had calmed him down got him on the cot and the second we lifted the cot up he thought the snakes were coming down at him instead of him going up and we had to restrain him. Thank god the facility we were taking him from was about 60 sec trip away from the hospital. There is just a gamut of attitudes for alcoholics. No two are the same.