We barely get happy hour!

Can't til happy hour is over

Kidderville....again?

Definitely seems to be the case! I assumed that you were being sarcastic, but those laws do exist, haha.

This data comes from the self reporting of members of 23 and Me ancestry services.

It is true, that most of these "SuperFacts" and "Fact of the Day" style accounts post a lot of claims without any source or substance. However, as I mention in my comment on this thread, I checked all the others. And to my surprise, all of them (except for one) are true, no matter how dumd they may seem today.

This problem isn’t just young people experiencing a mental health crisis, it involves the elderly awaiting placement in a geriatric psychiatry unit as well.

I work in a Hospital in NH and there have been multiple times where 30-50% of the ED beds are occupied as “psych holds” which puts an unbelievable stress on the ED. Usually it’s 2/3 young people and 1/3 elderly patients. Many times those elderly patients are unceremoniously dropped there by their families “because we can’t manage him/her anymore”. Other times they are sent in because of “altered mental status” from their home nursing facility. Frequently these patients are genuinely dangerous to be around or are a genuine danger to themselves due to progression of their cognitive impairment.

Often these patients have end stage dementia of one sort or another (god forbid Lewy body) and are unfixable. You can quell the symptoms sometimes with antipsychotic medications, but more often than not, you are just sedating them. Even if they move out of the ED and into the hospital for one reason or another, it just moves the problem to a new venue.

I had one patient spend close to 90 days on a general medical floor as their family just refused to take them back home. We ended up having to wait for public guardianship and long term medicaid to place them in a facility for the rest of their life.

This is a society-wide problem, and giving hospitals a month to come up with a plan is laughable. Unless they call out the Army to permanently fully staff a dozen new long term care psych units, this issue isn’t going to go anywhere.

>But in general, maps of "interesting facts" found online are complete and utter hogwash.

Not necessarily. There are tons of "weird" laws on the books from a century or more ago that made sense at the time. They are just not enforced anymore and there is no political motivation to spend the effort to remove them.

Oh hey sorry, I should have specified dates since "next" weekend is ambiguous. We will be up there March 10-12.

There are a lot of strange laws in NH like...

On Sundays, citizens in New Hampshire may not pee while looking up.

No person, while hunting or obviously on his way to or from hunting may have a ferret in his possession, custody or control.

Kidderville is just a village in Colebrook - it doesn't have laws of its own.

Colebrook was a starch manufacturing hub (from potatoes) in the 1880s or so so maybe it had some laundry-related ordinances.

But in general, maps of "interesting facts" found online are complete and utter hogwash.

Hello, We are supposed to get another 5-8 inches of snow Friday night. That means you will be breaking trail on Mt Major in Alton unless you wait till later on Sunday. You may need snow shoes. I haven't ridden at Ramblin Vewe in Meredith but the trails would be powdery fun. You might want to look at Ahern State Park in Laconia as well, there are lots of riding trails there.

Only one way to find out

I have found fact-checking articles on every claim in that image, besides this New Hampshire one. Well, one Daily Beast article makes a mention of that law, but the article is behind paywall.

I am currently on the construction team for the State Prison and the NH Mental Hospital. I am in these facilities daily updating infrastructure to modern day standards with future proofing in mind. Special Patient Unit will be added to the mental hospital within the next two years. This will be appropriate housing for the criminally convicted insane which frees up resources at the prisons and opens more beds for the mentally ill at the appropriate state hospital facilities. Most of the beds at normal hospital psychiatric units are being taken by inmates who cannot be helped within the prisons. The hospitals therefore cannot take in average person having a mental health crisis who need care for over a couple days. Soon there will be changes!

The “great communicator” could read a script with the best of them and for the most part memorize many of his lines. Little if any of what he said publicly was original.

That is amazing! I sang to myself the whole time in the Pod and so forth. I almost didn't get help because I didn't want to be without my phone and music. You don't know how much that is appreciated 💖

A for profit healthcare system disregarding what's best for a patient simply to increase profits? Say it ain't so!

> You want to go back to asylum's? Really? Also, they were in the process of closing when he was elected. Hyperbole that he waved his hand and cut funding for them is ridiculous.

Forty years on and Reagan is still the shallow-thinker's boogeyman. If only there had been a Democrat president with a majority Democrat congress since 1988. Oh well, what could of have been I guess.

Hey mental health patient here, I live on the boarder of mass and NH. I always make it a point to drive to mass, Beverly mass specially. The level of care is way better. Anyone struggling in NH on a regular basis I suggest moving to mass or the border of mass because it is so bad in Nh right now

As far as the music in the ambulance, unfortunately a lot of the trucks don't have great speaker setups. Ambulances have completely custom bodies usually and music isn't a priority in their design. That being said, the service I work for has speakers in the back and we try to provide music to our psychiatric patients whenever we can. We also have provided a laptop with Netflix open before. Anything to make the process easier and less stressful for all involved.

Well said. More investment in preventative measures including educating in the school system about how to properly care for your brain- i.e the importance of meditation, exercise, sunshine, engaging in fun activities, hikes, etc. Our society focuses way too much on "fixing" something after its gone awry rather than using some preventative steps. And way too often those "fixes" aren't effective and can cause more issues.

Went thru this, can confirm. That long distance trip from Portsmouth ER/pod was disturbing. I was a suicide risk so I had to be bound in the stretcher and then in the back of the ambulance alone in the dark. I had been in the holding area for days which had been highly stressful - a tight space with nothing to do but watch the TV in your room, no windows, you share one bathroom, a lot of the other people are screaming and throwing things. After finally getting loaded up in the back of the ambulance, I asked if they could play music from the front to soothe me, they said I wouldn't hear it. I sang to myself to ease my anxiety. By the time I got to the treatment center in Derry, I was throwing up from stress and empty stomach. New Hampshire is TRASH for mental health.

You want to go back to asylum's? Really? Also, they were in the process of closing when he was elected. Hyperbole that he waved his hand and cut funding for them is ridiculous.

I used to work at New Hampshire Hospital. At that time, it was a bed availability issue. Units were full and the availability to bring in patients who needed the help was an issue. Leadership has changed, so I’m not sure how it is now, but there were providers who were not comfortable discharging patients because there were minimal resources for a psych patient to remain stable upon discharge, thus creating this feeling of a “revolving door”. Psychiatry is challenging, patients get stabilized on their meds and start to feel better, so they stop their meds, and then BOOM back in a mental health crisis.

As someone posted previously, we need more resources in the northern part of the state. We need more mental health resources all around, not just hospitals and psychiatrists, but intensive outpatient programs (like cardiac or pulmonary rehab but for MH concerns), and supports for patients to take their meds and report changes sooner so they can prevent worsening of their condition, which leads to escalation of the MH symptoms. Another barrier was housing. If someone had been in a MH crisis, they might have lost their job and/or apartment. The social workers were golden at finding housing for these patients so they could be discharged, but it still was affecting bed availability. It’s a huge constellation of factors that need to be addressed. Having worked in an emergency department as well, it’s not fair to ED staff to have a psych boarder while waiting for a bed at a facility, nor is it fair to a patient who is having an acute MH flare to be held in the ED. You can’t put 30 lbs of pasta in a tiny colander and expect it to work. The State needs to actually do something to make it work better for it’s residents, not create another task force and hope it all falls in place