Anonymous query:
do patients at bmhu have to wear gowns or are you allowed own clothes? do you have any pics from inside????
J answers (correcting my own response)
Hi, I’m J. Just read this. The seclusion room is very much like a police cell, nothing in it at all except a plastic wipe-clean mattress, no window apart from the tiny one in the door the staff stare at you through, and a seclusion blanket. This is a navy blue, very tough and hardwearing and sort of quilt-stitched with orange thread blanket. It is very stiff and not very warm. When you get put in seclusion, you are forced into the room by a team of maybe up to 6 nurses who control and restrain you until you are in the room and you can’t escape - there is a seclusion room on each ward. The seclusion gown is made up of the exact same material as the blanket. It is tough, stiff and hardwearing, certainly not comfortable in any way. It is floor-length, and sleeveless. It is fastened by Velcro, down the front. You are not allowed to wear anything else - not even underwear, they strip you totally naked before they force you to put the gown on. Then, when in the gown, they give you a cardboard egg-cupped-like box/tray to use as a toilet, and a couple of pieces of paper towel to ‘wipe’ with. Then the heavy door is locked, and the staff look through a tiny high-up window at you every five minutes. You can be kept in there for as long as they decide you need to be - anything from an hour to a day, is possible.
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