Treatment Room

How to make two little words seem so ominous.

With the paint peeling like that, it looks like it says "Heathen Room."

This could possibly be where they gave shock treatments.

Oh my goodness. It's deja vu all over again! =8-o

Nurse, go get me a mouth gag please, I haven't performed a lobotomy, ECT, or Metrazol therapy this week. I'm getting rusty.

Dr. Doctor

P.S. Nurse! Step on it! Get your fat lazy ass out of the way! Oh, you institutional staff, always being mean and cruel and lazy and shocking people and stuff like that! I know the only treatments ever given in psychiatric facilities were evil and mean and cruel and man am I getting a headache . . . . . . Where's my Haldol?

:-(

[sigh . . . . . . ]

There, there Lynne, let me get some Necco pink mints and a shot of Fletchers, and everything will be alright.

I was hoping more for a lobotomy. What is the old saying - "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"? Well, reverse that for me. It would calm me down a little.

Mebbe.

I envision bringing my fiancee along here, on a cold dark night, and giving her some treatment! :-D

okey dokey then....:-)

I'm on your side Lynne. :)

Lynne that may be an old one, but it still cracks me up!

Sadly that is the truth some places. Even regular hospitals. I went in for a heart murmor and they wanted to give that to me since my sister was concerned about having me stay overnight for a known problem that my regular doctor was fully aware of.

Needless to say I walked out against medical advice. Find out that this hospital, yes regular hospital, is known to give Haldol out to help the night shift. Especially on the cardiac ward!

kind of what my skin feels like when i have to go into the "treatment room"

says randall: a little dab will do ya

What is the difference between an exam room and a treatment room? When I was committed to the state psychiatric hospital back in 2004, I had to be frisked and also some device rolled over my body, and then I was led into the looked like a dcotor's exam room, and I had to strip, get in the shower, bath with this medicated soap and shampoo, and then I had to be examined by this female doctor. Afterwards I had to wear mint green uniforms with the hospital logo on the back. To this day I have vivid memories of that exam or treatment room. So what is the difference? Thanks.

But it was ominous, the procedures that were performed in that room not only increased the severity of the patient's condition, it also killed many patients through dangerous and unethical practices.

Those of us who work in residential facilities still spend a lot of time, I have to admit, trying to get those dangerous, illegal, and unethical practices to work as quickly as we would like. We finally had to write a "Patient Abuse and Degradation Manual" so the procedures would be easier, faster, and somewhat standardized. Please feel free to drop me a line if you would like a copy of the manual. It's only $25.99, and we do take credit cards. You have to learn the secret handshake and how to use the decoder ring before we'll let you in the club, of course.

Do you take American Express?

is that a good thing or a bad thing? because the "Treatment Room " sounds very creepy to me, like they did some type of 3vil stuff in there...o.O

"Treatment Room" means treatment room...there's nothing creepy or evil about that. Good Lord.....

Treatment = evil?

If you think the Treatment Room is creepy, you wait til you see the Storage Room, the evilness of which I will not mutter here!

So true Felyne... they take these poor pieces of equipment leave them in these dark closets where they are neglected and kept out of sight until they are needed by the evil staff. There I muttered.

to clear things up, what kind of treatment did they do? or reabilatation? I would like to think it helped.

Treatment can include a whole range of things, from a long talk and picture viewing with a Doctor, to a little juice, to an icepick in the upper orbit of the eye socket, It always depends on the happenstances.

They did in fact do and practice lobotomy at this place. There is a local program called on Q based out of Pittsburgh that has taken a nurse who used to work there back to that place. She spoke of some of the things they did there and things she saw. So I would say it is not to far fetched to think perhaps those things did happen in such rooms.

looks like my bedroom door

Ashlen, far too many people make the assumption that EVERY person that was in a hospital like this was given a FFL (Full Frontal Lobotomy) and that simply is not true. I'm not saying it didn't happen, as I'm sure it did to some extent. But, far far too many people make the staff out to be horrible horrible mean evil people that got off on harming others. Simply not true. Look at Lynne, she's kind, caring, and sweet.

I'm not saying you are one of these people, or contradicting (whew big word for me) what you say, I just feel the need to speak up about it after seeing page after page after page of it.

By the way Lynne, I would love a copy of the book, decoder ring, and secret handshake, the check is in the mail.

(Please don't beat me again Lynne, I made you sound like a GOOD person this time)

But - but - but I'm ebil!

We may have to beat this one Lynne. Can't let the secrets out you know. Mhahahahah

the inauspicious door is just crumbling away like an old fudge brownie...

I wouldn't be suprised if that room was full of disembodied voices and all kinds of paranormal activity.

Yeah, that's just a LITTLE bit freaky

All the peeling paint looks like your skin peeling after getting sunburn.

Even regular hospital floors have "treatment" rooms. My son was hospitalized for pneumonia when he was 18 months old, and they took him to the treatment room to start an IV. They didn't want me there (saying they didn't want him to associate me with the treatment) but I refused to leave (I didn't want him to think Mommy had abandoned him to strangers). Neither of the two nurses could get the IV line inserted and so they were going to put it in his head. I said "no way, at least not yet" and asked them to call down to the ER and have an ER nurse or EMT come up to the floor to do the procedure. They agreed to this, and the ER nurse got the line in on the first try (I also used the same request when my 80-year-old father was hospitalized and was becoming agitated by a nurse's unsuccessful attempts to start an IV--people who practice emergency medicine seem to have special skills with IVs). If I hadn't insisted on staying with my son, and he had come out of that treatment room with an IV attached to the top of his head, he wouldn't have been the only one needing a treatment!

Wonder what treatment was going on inside?

@DeafAngel: For me treatment meant ECT and or some sort of other envasive procedure while an exam was just that an exam to see if there were other physical underlying problems. Hope that helps.