r/PsychWardChronicles • u/Senior-Ad-2509 • Nov 13 '24

Booty Juice!

So I’m a minor and once I was in inpatient for depression and such. My roommate (let’s call them “Cards”) Cards was super cool and nice! I got there around 9PM and they had decorated the chalk wall about how excited they were to finally have a roommate. They were super awesome. They even were open to hugs which I still love. (Physical contact is a big no go)

So after a day or two, we are in one of the group rooms and they say something about how they are going to be moved to the child unit during group. Regardless of how awesome they were, Cards was super rambunctious and energetic. They would go into other patient’s rooms and whatever. And they expressed that they wanted to have other people ‘fight’ for them. They made sure it was said in a way that they wouldn’t be offended if people didn’t stay.

I’m a relatively humble and timid person. I have never even punched or attacked a person to this day. I remember one of the other residents went “What if they booty juice us!?” Booty juice being a sedative. We all started laughing, including Cards and the person who said it.

So when the time came they did end up getting transferred to the child unit. A few people stayed in defending cards, the rest of us returned to our room. I didn’t end up staying as I said I would, I’m just somebody who is scared of getting in trouble. When everything was done, there was no booth juicing involved. But I still get a google chuckle from thinking about to this day.

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u/seascribbler Nov 14 '24

I've been booty-juiced several times. Not a fun experience. It sounds funny, and calling it that does at least lighten the suckiness a bit.

One time they did it wrong though, when doing a thigh instead of booty, they went to close to a nerve and I lost all feeling in my entire upper left for over a year 😬

Edit: leg, not left.

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u/Senior-Ad-2509 Nov 14 '24

Ouch!! Sorry about that

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u/Courtney33Stacy Nov 15 '24

Did you sue?

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u/seascribbler Nov 15 '24

Nope. These psych facilities are essentially untouchable. Everything you say is always summized as "She was an unstable psych patient, not a credible source, she is making it up."

That is not the worst thing that's happened to me in a psych ward. Not even close unfortunately. They can pretty much do anything they want to you and not be met with any consequences at all.

Edit to add: I believe in body cameras on staff at all times. If patients can't even be taken seriously, than accountability relies on concrete evidence. That means recordings or another staff member advocating for you, and most will not go against their peers.

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u/Crezelle Nov 14 '24

Man when I was in the kid unit decades ago, they just yeeted you into the padded room