Incredibly, no matter what I said or threatened, I was never restrained. If I expressed a violent impulse, staff encouraged me to rip out the pages of a magazine; if I kept it up, staff steered me to the seclusion room, away from other people. My behavior was no different from what it had been in the ER, or on my initial visit to YPI weeks earlier, or during my three weeks at MU10. But the hospital’s response to the behavior most certainly was. Evidently, the question of whether I was to be restrained or not had more to do with where I happened to be than how I behaved.
