have u ever being holdet?

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have u ever been holdet? i have several times and i sometimes still do

I think "physically restrained" is what batista intends to communicate.

well i try to explain it i mean by holding that for exsamble your parents keep u down when u have meltdown or im only one who is being keeped in floor?

That's never happened to me. I imagine it's frightening.

Never. Thank God. Actually, I was during this game on the schoolyard in second grade when we would pick one person and all pile on top of them, and I felt like I was suffocating; I found it frightening so when I saw a game like that or a fight from then on I would run in the opposite direction.

yes,am have physical intervention written into own guidelines [various types including being pinned on floor],but this is so am do not damage self or others,and it's not abusive type restraining like school was,they use pillows and other bits to pad around as well.
they don't do it without training,and any physical intervention has to be agreed by the home behavioralist/pysch first.


Batista90,
the tied up wrists restraint doesn't sound good/right at all,they are not police dealing with an aware criminal.

are still living at the group home,or back with parents now?
if group home,have things not improved there?

but ya..i think i will be ok

i hate when someting like this happens

Yes, actually! Back in middle school, I was actually physically restrained on a couple of occasions! The most annoying factor in them, however, is that they often continue the restraint long after the meltdown has passed! I was being carried down the hall, and I was very calmly saying, "You guys, I'm fine now. Umm...sir? I'm really sorry that I shoved the computer. Can I walk now, please?" Actually, I think that was the point at which they put me in the classes they had set aside for the sociopaths. I told my parents that the paxil was making me psychotic, but noooooooo, they've got to listen to Dr. Barnhill.

Don't worry, guys. One of the most used types of physical restraint is actually a type of hold that has some effects similar to deep pressure. It's no picnic, but it's not something horrible like being put into shackles or something. Chains and shackles type things haven't been accepted for a long time.

I've been held down and sedated a few times in various mental institutions. I don't cope well with confinement; I have physically attacked nurses in fits of wild panic on several occasions. And the second time I was arrested I was dragged around, forced against the floor and cuffed with my hands uncomfortably contorted behind my back.

Yack!! ! My parents kept threatening to throw me into an institution. Are they really as horrible as they were back in the day? I mean, do they really sedate you for just moderate meltdowns? I have never really heard much about the things.

No, but I was placed into an isolation box several times. I was also threatened with institutionalization several times.

These experiences have had a negative effect on how I handle certain situations. Let's just say, I don't take freedom for granted and I am much more easily cowed by authority. Since my supervisors have NO clue about the mishandling we receive they assume my background is like everyone else's, and I can't tell them differently. For example it was very hard for me to go from an open plan office to a cube farm because the cubicles brought back memories of the isolation boxes. I did mention this to a couple of co-workers and they reacted as if I had said I was from Mars. So totally not in their experience, they could not even imagine!

I don't think I would have reacted well to being held down, that has got to be terrifying. There was a case a couple of years ago where an autistic student in my town died after being restrained. The participants all got a slap on the wrist. I don't think anything has changed.