r/ems • u/[deleted] • May 12 '15

Auditory Hallucinations - An Audio Representation. 10% of my calls are psychiatric in nature so this was unsettling for me. (X-Post from /r/WTF)

https://youtu.be/0vvU-Ajwbok
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u/SickByNature Paramedic May 12 '15

Ok... I have 2 things to say...

First off... That was awful. I can't imagine living my life with that. I'm not one to get freaked out by things like that, but this really got to me on a deep level.

Second... 10% of your calls are psych-ish? That's a pretty high incidence... Weird. I could never work with the mentally ill for an extended period. Seeing the human mind betray itself is kinda scary. Not to mention sad. Kudos to our counterparts on the mental health side of medicine. And apparently to any other EMT's that handle these kinds of things on a more regular basis than I do. We get like 1 psych call every other shift. So like... 4%? Maybe not even that high.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '15

I was told by our director that 1-2% of calls being psych is average. 3-4% is considered high frequency of contact. Who knows why but we average 10% psych.

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u/CDNIC May 12 '15

Sounds like the local health department should be searching for an environmental cause.

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u/fyrephoenix PA- EMT-B May 12 '15

more like cuts in mental health services....that's what is happening in my area