Edit: Apparently this community is too mentally healthy/sound to even recognize this meme lol

Count yourselves lucky.

  • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
    80·
    1 year ago

    Grippy socks are standard issue for all in-patients in most US hospitals because they prevent falls and the floor is nasty. Seriously please wear them during your stay.

  • nevial@discuss.tchncs.de
    70·
    1 year ago

    "Apparently this community is too mentally healthy/sound to even recognize this meme lol

    Count yourselves lucky."

    In my country, we just don’t have those

    • Stamets [Mirror]@startrek.websiteOP
      1153·
      1 year ago

      Those are grippy socks. They’re often given to patients when they’re admitted to hospital. Over the past few years they’ve become synonymous with being admitted to a mental health ward.

      The meme is saying that they’re afraid of being honest to their therapist because their therapist might admit them to a psych ward against their will.

      Psych Ward Socks | Know Your Meme. A version of the meme I posted is even used in there as an example, funnily enough.

      • Eheran@lemmy.world
        322·
        1 year ago

        Over the past few years they’ve become synonymous with being admitted to a mental health ward.

        Never heard or seen this. Where did that get synonymous?

        • OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social
          373·
          1 year ago

          It’s a usa thing. Their psychiatric wards apparently also provide like actual therapy and psychiatric help too, from what I’ve read.

          I don’t know what it’s like elsewhere but in the UK, psychiatric wards are filthy, underfunded holding pens run by the dregs of the nhs. And you get no help, just held till they arbitrarily decide if you’re ‘safe to be released’ or not. You don’t get socks here, you get ptsd.

          • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
            14·
            1 year ago

            Inpatient psych wards are kind of all over the place in the US. However, as someone in the American medical field, I can confirm the grippy socks are definitely a thing.

            Generally speaking, inpatient psych facilities here are also filthy, underfunded holding pens run by the dregs of the medical community. Not all, and a lot of people.over here get into medicine specifically for psych but they’re outnumbered by the burnt out shitbirds who are just collecting a paycheck. You also get no/the wrong help here and they hold you for a minimum 72 hrs or until you’re no longer “a threat to yourself/others”. It’s often traumatic and life ruining because not only aren’t you helped, you’re thrown out on the street in debt and possibly out of a job because you missed 3 days of work, making your life measurably worse at the end than it was at the beginning of your admission

      • Granixo@feddit.cl
        61·
        1 year ago

        Ooooohhh i see, thanks for clarifying :)

        And yes, i would never be 100% honest to my therapist about what goes on in the back of my head. 🧠😅

      • 30p87@feddit.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        I didn’t know, we just had to bring our own socks and crocs. Was funnier that way tho, one kid had mouse shoes larger than his legs.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    20·
    1 year ago

    Hey my therapist was cool as fuck. If you need someone to talk about suicidal ideations with though you can call a number on

    warmline.org

    The people who answer are peer support. People who have suffered too and spend time answering mental health calls.

  • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
    20·
    1 year ago

    Oh wow, in UK grippy socks “totes” were a 1990’s fad. Great fit for running about hardwood floors as a kid.

  • Depress_Mode@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    Ok kids, let’s review the requisites for involuntary hospitalization in the US (specifically regarding suicidal ideation)!

    Do you:

    1. Have a plan? ✔️

    2. Have the means to carry out that plan? ✔️

    3. Expressed the intention to carry out that plan in the immediate future? ✔️

    If all of the above are true and you tell your mental health professional, then you better pack those bags! If not, you get to go home.

    (That said, I’ve at least heard stories of some mental health clinicians apparently not understanding these minimum guidelines and committing people involuntarily with only 1 or 2 of these requisites having been met, so it may be worth it to review these guidelines with your clinician before getting too deep into it)

    • Sabata11792@kbin.social
      13·
      1 year ago

      “How have you been this week?”

      “Counsel has advised me to not answer that question or questions that may imply an answer”

    • Turducken@mander.xyz
      91·
      1 year ago

      I’m good, how are you?

      Before we go any further, let me explain to you the guidelines for involuntary committment for suicidal ideation.

      Hmmmmm

    • Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      There are cases where psychiatric admission is the right call though. Sometimes it’s literally life saving. Depression isn’t static - it goes up and down, goes loud, goes silent. When you’re deep in a life crisis, when you’re feeling like you’re losing your fucking mind and are actually about to kill yourself those are the places to go to get you over those critical days or weeks to recalibrate and reconsider. I’ve personally spoken to many patients who were completely releived afterwards and glad that there was such a place for them. If the alternative is a lost life, psychiatry is a valid attempt to get better, even if it doesn’t work for everyone.

      Of course it’s an even better route to get there by admitting oneself - I just believe the likelihood of that happening depends a lot on how afraid people are of psychiatric clinics. And they do vary of course. I personally still would go though. Before I end my life I guess there wouldn’t be anything to lose anyway.