A second patient struck me tonight. The staff blame me singing hymns. I answer to God before I do a nurse.

I was singing hymns, and another patient walked up to me to strike me. I put my hands up in front of me in a STOP motion and said stop. He struck my fingers.

Staff came over and escorted him back to his room.

Then they said I should stop singing hymns in this hallway because I am bothering patients, as if to say because I am singing hymns it is my fault if patients strike me.

Hymns help me stay calm while I am being persecuted for being a Christian.

Another man here was singing and playing guitar louder than me, and he wasn't told to stop. Another patient played their music, they weren't told to stop.

What is happening here?

I am allowed to walk in the hallway while I am restricted to unit and sing my hymns to God.

If the patients do not like that, they can go to their room and listen to music or something. Just because they don't like hymns is no reason for them to be violent with me.

This is baloney.

If I was raped tonight by a patient, would they blame me because I wasn't wearing a long sleeve shirt?

This makes zero sense.

What is happening here at The Royal.

I have to give an account to God of everything that I do. I answer to God before I answer to the governing authorities.

I will not stop singing hymns just because the nurses tell me to.

There is no way that is hospital policy, let alone legal.

How is this going to escalate next?

Are they going to restrict me to a section of a hallway and beat me while I am sitting in a corner singing hymns?

I am non violent and not suicidal.

I want off the unit. Be it the courtyard or restricted to grounds.

Then I can sing hymns somewhere where it is not bothering people. I don't have that luxury now.

I am literally bruised from the abuse, and two patients have struck me in the same day, and they are pointing at me and saying it is my fault because I was singing.

They even suggested I sing in my room, but the patient that just struck me is right across the hallway. So that won't help the situation at all.

What now world?