It was then, she said, that she realized the doors to the psychiatric ward had locked behind her. She recalled being startled to see rooms that were filled not with desks but with beds.Ī technician rifled through Trimble’s purse for sharp objects and then a nurse told her to strip down to her underwear. by the time a staff member walked her down a long hallway. She signed them and waited for her counseling session. Nor did she know, she later testified in a deposition, that the dozen or so forms he gave her were anything other than standard doctor’s-office paperwork. She said she had no idea that the counselor characterized the line as a plan to commit suicide. With her pastor beside her for moral support, she replied, “Well, who hasn’t had suicidal thoughts?” She said she had no intention to kill herself but joked, “ It’s Texas, it isn’t that hard to get a gun.” They all laughed, she recalled. that evening, a counselor at Millwood asked Trimble if she was having suicidal thoughts. A physician assistant asked if she wanted to talk to someone at Millwood. Worried for her job and her ability as a single mother to support her daughter, she visited her doctor’s office in tears. When administrators heard about it, she was escorted off the property.

On a cool October evening in 2012, Samantha Trimble walked into the lobby of Millwood Hospital, a low-slung brick building on the side of a road in Arlington, Texas, seeking a free mental health assessment.Ī few weeks earlier in the AP world history class Trimble taught, after a kid started acting childish, she put a diaper on his head - something she admits was a bad idea. The Dark Side Of Shadow Mountain and related videoĪ Prescription For Violence and related video

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