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I actually wish she had been choking on something but the situation was much more disheartening. At work I got a call in the office from a nurse in the 4'th psychiatry ward saying a suicidal patient by the name of Catherine had just escaped and was going to jump off the parking levels at the back exit of the hospital (14 levels). I didn't even have time to call the rest of my team as I saw her run down the hall and bolt left towards the exit onto the parking levels. I ran like mad and managed to catch her left wrist as she approached the edge, she swung around and punched me in the head at which point I tripped her and put her on the ground, with the adrenaline her strenght easily matched mine at the time.
I held her down long enough for the rest of the team to arrive and we put her flaling body on a wheelchair, brought her back to her room, put her in four point restraints and gave her injections of liquid Ativan.

All in a day's work I guess, I've got a million stories like that one, last attempted jump though didn't go as well as we wished and some of us had to be treated for shock as we saw a sweet and kind person end her life because of a mental illness called depression.

Well, my 14 hour shift is over, time for bed! Thanks for asking I like it when people drop me a message!