When Nurse Mansukhani had a male tech bring this and try to drop it on top of me, a patient shackled in 5-point restraints, I was terrified for my life and I responded from that fear: I could not understand why anyone would do such a thing unless they were trying to suffocate me. ...
Sometimes, if I was having a rough night, my nurse would bring me into a small room attached to the nursing station. We would talk about how I was doing. Mainly I talked about the urges I had to self harm. Even in the hospital I generally harmed myself on an almost daily basis. L...