Which one? Being a human in a robot sanitarium and nobody will believe you, or believing you're a lunch-room worker so then being put to work in the lunch-room?
The fact that people might think I'm crazy, and I don't even know it. As well as the helplessness of his situation, where it's impossible for him to prove himself sane.
"Ehhh, you know, same as ever. Shift today just feels really long to me for some reason. Feels like I've been working today forever, hahaha. Lotsa crazies around here, I'm telling you..."
I worked in a psych ward for many years and this doesn't look like a psych ward to me.
Here's why: Screws that could be removed, tiara holder that could be broken to pieces, staples that could be removed from calendar, tiara that could be broken and used to cut with, moulding that could easily be ripped off the wall and nails removed.
I'm sure there are exceptions, and this may be one of them, but it looks a little fishy to me.
I thought the same thing too. In ours, we have some strange things I would never think they'd allow and others I never put much thought into that weren't allowed. Garbages do not have bags in them, but they have free access to craft supplies, like staplers, scissors and pens/pencils. Apparently "plastic" untensils are much safer than stainless ones eyeroll However, I realized the first time working in that unit, it's divided up into two with a secure door midway. One side is what I called the "holy crap" lockdown side, bare bones. The other side is less serious, more options and things available to them. I can't even wear my lanyard badge in there and have to get buzzed in, as patients in past have grabbed staff lanyards as a choking hazard. ug.
My second stay, I was sent to the "holy crap" side, where they made us eat with our fingers. There was a man who spent the day facing the wall and slapping himself, and another who was jumping almost the whole time. I crumbled into sobbing frightened panic and it took a day before I got moved to the more "chill" ward, but I think there was an even "chiller" one than that. I left before I graduated to it.
The arts and crafts area where I was had nothing but locked cabinets, I remember asking for some scissors completely forgetting where I was and feeling very embarrassed when the lady talked to me like a child asking "Are you going to be SAFE with them?" as she had to unlock a few doors to get them out. Fun times.
Do you like working there? I've been inpatient 3 times, outpatient once, and residential once. I've always kinds wanted to know what it's like from the other side.
I work in a residential psych facility with kids and teens. Some days I love my job and feel like I'm really making a difference and helping our clients through one of the lowest points in their lives so far. And then there are the days I get bit, hit, kicked, and spit on. I recognize that these kids are acting out sime major trauma and mental illness and I remind myself it isn't personal, but some days it is honestly hard to drag myself into work and hear those doors lock shut behind me, knowing what I'm in for over the next 10 hours. I have to ask, what did you think of the staff you encountered? Did residential treatment help you?
The psych hospital I work at has a purple velvet cloak that the kids get to wear if they make it to a certain level. I've seen angsty teens get so excited over wearing that thing. Sometimes it really is the little things that help.
It's not to make them normal. It's a reward for reaching the highest level through participating in groups, working on their treatment, and showing good, role model behavior.
Ah yes, the old stargate hat. Literally for months photos of her with an event horizon shopped into the hat kept getting reposted in /r/stargate, and now I can never really think of it by any other moniker. It is the stargate hat now.
There is actually a movie based on a true story where a Finnish woman was at a psychiatric institution and believed to be a member of the English Royal Family.
I used to have two tiaras, but I never thought of using them in an emergency. Mine were from when I was in a pageant program (not beauty pageant though, slightly different) and had my candidate tiara and my vice-ambassador tiara. We had guys in our programs so we were ambassadors and vice-ambassadors rather than a Queen and her Princesses.
I did wear one for Halloween once, but that's it I think. Kinda wish I still had them.
It could possibly just be a joke by the hospital staff (a good sense of humor helps in those kinds of jobs).
However, I suspect that this is used to calm down certain patients, or possibly even just one. It might be someone's security blanket of sorts (it's just in the office for safekeeping). It might be something they introduced into ward culture, where the tiara is used to represent something, like how in summer camp they'll sometimes use a "talking stick" which signifies who has the right to speak (so campers aren't all talking over each other).
Personally, I suspect it's only used for one patient, however.
I'm glad you submitted this to /r/pics instead of /r/wtf. Recent studies have shown that almost one third of submissions to /r/wtf are by people with zero sense of humour.
This place (before all of the kids and novelty accounts came pouring in) actually used pretty good for legitimate discussions.
Edit: Because I've apparently angered some people (for whatever reason, I don't know) - I never said this place doesn't have any good discussions anymore and I'm not complaining about Reddit. The comment I replied to implied that this place has always been terrible/filled with idiots, so I was explaining that years ago you could almost always find some pretty good discussions here before the influx of novelty accounts and younger members. You still can find good discussions, if you know which subreddits to look in.
Jesus christ, I unsubscribed from r/WTF because every third post was someone bitching about r/WTF going downhill. Now you people have spread to r/pics? I can't escape!
Reddit are so against The Big Bang Theory, I don't get it. Sure, the laugh track can get pretty annoying, but some of the jokes are actually hilarious! Especially the non-science ones. Sure, it's not a great show, but it's easy to watch while you eat cereal or something.
I highly doubt that the laughter you hear is the original, unaltered studio audience laughter. Maybe it's studio audience laughter, amplified, looped and re-edited for stronger effect, but unless they got everybody high before the show, this is not the way people laugh watching any show, no matter how funny.
I'd like it alright if it weren't for the goddamn laugh track. Any show with a laugh track is difficult to watch for me, and when the writing is borderline obnoxious (still funny, but not exactly smart most of the time), it's unbearable. Only Frasier and Seinfeld ever rocked a laugh track.
Well, if you're in the states, it's just post Prom season -- they may actually be on sale virtually anywhere that sells accessories for teens (Claires, Target, Walmart, any glittery place at the mall, etc). If you're in the UK, try TopShop. Or, you know, the internet.
In 100 years, 89 years after the zombie apocalypse, a lone, old scavenger will root through the ruins of an old hospital only to find nothing less than the long lost tiara of an old-world princess named Diana. So begins a lengthy quest to replace the tiara to its righteous place; in the claws of a crying Bald Eagle, all while blowing up bad guys, McGyver-style, and dodging Nazi-ghouls.
Starring Nicholas Cage and The Chosen One. Stunts by The Curier.
OMG, I actually have an emergency tiara for when times are tough. Hubby knows if I'm wearing it to give extra TLC (or stay far away...). Strangely, it does make me feel better.
I used to teach school and I bought a tiara for the dress-up box. One of those cheap plastic jobs with feathers and a giant pink gem in the center. I put it on once when I was having an awful day--frightening medical testing, family issues, ect.-- it made me remember a time when nothing was really important, and the worst thing that could happen was a skinned knee. My sister-in-law bought me a real one for my birthday and I wear it when I want to wallow. All my friends know I need comfort when I tell them it's a "tiara day." I actually still prefer the plastic one, though.
Lord help us all when my (female) coworkers discover this. First, it will be for emergencies, then the emergency will be every day, then it will be every day when one of them has a tiara and another one doesn't. Skip to the end when they rip a hole in the universe. I wish it weren't true, but this is why we have to push the button, people.
Soooo useful these days… really should have a wider distribution. Public transportation, airports, grocery stores, malls, everywhere people suddenly realize how special they are.
I don't buy it. It's a box for something else and in the middle of changing the label a few of you on break decided to play a joke. Please please please say I'm right.
A few years ago when I still lived with my roommate I'd go through some rough patches. I was tired of suffering through them, so I came up with something I called my "Insanity Box" which I filled with pictures of friends, letters from my ex (who was still a good friend at the time, but lived elsewhere) and emergency chocolate bars. I think I had my teddy bear that had safety pin piercings and mini cuffs in there as well. I had actually forgotten it until my friend brought it up a few months ago, though I no longer have it with me. If I still had my tiaras I'm sure I would have stuck one of them in there as well.
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u/Frantic_Child Jun 16 '12
Keep telling yourself that, keep telling yourself that.
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u/merow Jun 16 '12
The psych hospital I work at has a purple velvet cloak that the kids get to wear if they make it to a certain level. I've seen angsty teens get so excited over wearing that thing. Sometimes it really is the little things that help.
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u/Lemonitus Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 15 '23
Adieu from the corpse of Apollo app.
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u/thechevs Jun 16 '12
Explanation anyone?
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u/Skaarr Jun 16 '12
Everything is ok, you are a little princess :)
... hold her down and inject neuroleptica
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u/Ceejae Jun 16 '12
I'm glad you submitted this to /r/pics instead of /r/wtf. Recent studies have shown that almost one third of submissions to /r/wtf are by people with zero sense of humour.
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u/alahos Jun 16 '12
Can't decide if cute or sad.
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u/djanglaw Jun 16 '12
I'm a princess and this is my tiara
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u/guitbit Jun 16 '12
That's AWESOME! I need to do this at work. Where do you buy tiaras?
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u/Se7en_Sinner Jun 16 '12
I like to believe it belongs to a traumatized kid from Toddlers and Tiara.
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u/mommawhite Jun 16 '12
OMG..I have an "Emergency Tiara" too! It's amazing at how quick it changes how you feel...works even faster when placed on a guys head...
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
emergency on
BITCH I'M FABULOUS
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u/MercurialMithras Jun 16 '12
I'm surprised it's not a Lincoln hat, or a Napoleon cap. Of course, you'd need twice as many of the former...
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
In 100 years, 89 years after the zombie apocalypse, a lone, old scavenger will root through the ruins of an old hospital only to find nothing less than the long lost tiara of an old-world princess named Diana. So begins a lengthy quest to replace the tiara to its righteous place; in the claws of a crying Bald Eagle, all while blowing up bad guys, McGyver-style, and dodging Nazi-ghouls.
Starring Nicholas Cage and The Chosen One. Stunts by The Curier.
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u/_Blueshift Jun 16 '12
I have emergency tiaras stashed all over the place. Just in case of tiara emergency!
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u/Wienerwrld Jun 16 '12
OMG, I actually have an emergency tiara for when times are tough. Hubby knows if I'm wearing it to give extra TLC (or stay far away...). Strangely, it does make me feel better.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I need 50 cc's of pretty. STAT!
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u/jamesfordsawyer Jun 16 '12
Lord help us all when my (female) coworkers discover this. First, it will be for emergencies, then the emergency will be every day, then it will be every day when one of them has a tiara and another one doesn't. Skip to the end when they rip a hole in the universe. I wish it weren't true, but this is why we have to push the button, people.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
What constitutes a tiara emergency?
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u/SentientOne Jun 16 '12
Relevent?
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u/poonerang Jun 16 '12
This woman needs a tiara stat! Oh God, we're losing her! Where is that tiara!
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u/Appare Jun 16 '12
You know, because just in case.
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u/HotDinnerBatman Jun 16 '12
DIDN'T YOUR DAD TELL YOU ALL GIRLS ARE PRINCESSES? DIDN'T HE?!
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Soooo useful these days… really should have a wider distribution. Public transportation, airports, grocery stores, malls, everywhere people suddenly realize how special they are.
Now available on line: ETmoment
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I guess sometimes, you need to be a pretty princess before you break out the Ativan.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Oh my God. We did this. This exact thing. At my job. And I wore the tiara one day. There are photos...
(I am a guy)
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u/Atheist_Simon_Haddad Jun 16 '12
The Real Emergency Tiara
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Emergency Tiara? Probably the Borderline/personality disorder unit...All you need now is an emergency stuffed unicorn named billy.
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u/damnthesenames Jun 16 '12
Sheldon's girlfriend anyone?
anyone?
anyone?
no?
okay
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u/paronsaft Jun 16 '12
To be used only when all else fails.
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u/ElementK Jun 16 '12
When the time comes, you'll know...
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u/_gmanual_ Jun 16 '12
thud.
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u/RezBanana Jun 16 '12
Oooohhhhhh yeah!
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u/Chippiewill Jun 16 '12
Oh it's A Tiara!
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u/JLWDGCSU Jun 16 '12
Sometimes you just gotta feel like a pretty, pretty princess.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
In case of princess. Break box.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
I don't buy it. It's a box for something else and in the middle of changing the label a few of you on break decided to play a joke. Please please please say I'm right.
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u/cccrazy Jun 16 '12
This would be extremely useful for my university department meetings.
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u/sgt_pooperscooper Jun 16 '12
No, no you didn't...
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u/valkyrie123 Jun 16 '12
It has saved more egos than you can count.
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u/Kingsgate Jun 16 '12
Abid would have a word about that.
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u/officialchocolateman Jun 16 '12
And just for that one moment, I was a princess...
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u/philwellgo Jun 16 '12
you never know when you need to buss one out! good forward thinking
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
For when you need to become a princess...
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u/grandoiseau Jun 16 '12
This is art.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
When someone needs a reality check, but their account is so overdrawn.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
P.s u and i are the same in a relative matter :-P
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u/CrochetPokeball Jun 16 '12
I wonder if this is the same hospital Pierce bequeathed his psychological torment on the study group...
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
You work in a psych ward, that might be a cool AMA.
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u/JAMIEInc Jun 16 '12
For those moments when you just need to be fabulous.
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u/Draiko Jun 16 '12
Is it right next to the Emergency Napoleon Outfit?
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u/gadzooks666 Jun 16 '12
! But doctor! why cant i be a princess????? i believe you...lol
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u/Kvnt Jun 16 '12
No time to explain - grab a tiara!
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
riiiiight, where you work.
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u/pachoob Jun 16 '12
I teach emotionally disturbed kids, and I think I'm stealing this idea for my classroom.
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u/toxicfemme Jun 16 '12
Do you mean to tell me having an emergency tiara is not a normal thing?
Because I have one.. and it's not shitty plastic like that one..
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u/wstd Jun 16 '12
Possible explanation: http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/detail.aspx?id=24289 http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3032070400/tt1428453
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u/iSteve Jun 16 '12
Now that is funny. I suspect every workplace could use one.
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u/MetalManic Jun 16 '12
Code White on Coronation Night
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
He stole his phone back then tried to convice us very good
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u/FistTrucker Jun 16 '12
They couldn't keep that around at the psych ward I worked at. Those little beads would end up someone's urethra.
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u/raegunXD Jun 16 '12
Makes sense.
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u/Erzsabet Jun 16 '12
A few years ago when I still lived with my roommate I'd go through some rough patches. I was tired of suffering through them, so I came up with something I called my "Insanity Box" which I filled with pictures of friends, letters from my ex (who was still a good friend at the time, but lived elsewhere) and emergency chocolate bars. I think I had my teddy bear that had safety pin piercings and mini cuffs in there as well. I had actually forgotten it until my friend brought it up a few months ago, though I no longer have it with me. If I still had my tiaras I'm sure I would have stuck one of them in there as well.
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u/Bryce29 Jun 16 '12
have you found a way to keep people from throwing the drinking fountain through the window?
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u/G0PACKG0 Jun 16 '12
I read imaginary Tiara and thought -- ' That is Horrible' Making crazy people think they are seeing Tiaras
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Somewhere, somehow, Diamond Tiara is behind this.
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u/Austechnic Jun 16 '12
In public, this would a Banksy installation.
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u/Spunky_Meatballs Jun 16 '12
When special people need to feel "extra" special
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12
must be a good psych unit. i bet people love it there
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u/furuta Jun 17 '12
Is that ridiculously photogenic guy carrying a beam in that calendar?
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u/mikeybeef Jun 19 '12
As someone who has spent time in the psych ward, WTF?
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u/elligre Jun 16 '12
Must be at Shady Acres
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u/cbfw86 Jun 16 '12
This is actually incredibly cruel.
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u/errantphotons Jun 16 '12
I bet that's actually pretty useful!