Anyone been to a psychiatric hospital before? What was it like?
Were you there voluntarily? Do you have any idea how much it cost? Did you get your own room, and your own toilet or shower?
you don't get anything of your own and you're monitored 24/7 in case you try to kill yourself
>>24608622
So, you can't fap?
>>24608665
Did you have to share a room with someone? What if you're not suicidal?
It's not like the movies.
Being mentally ill isn't a crime. They don't treat you like prisoners. they are there to help you. They are not there to punish you for being mentally unstable. They don't force you into normie activities. They understand that blanket solutions don't work for all cases.
>>24608709
you'll share a room unless you're violent/potatoed to promote socialization. doesn't really matter if you're suicidal or not since everything is designed to prevent any possible self harm
Bumping I like these threads
>>24608622
It was okay. I was having a psychotic break at the time after a close loved one's passing. I was just hearing things that weren't reality and becoming furious with people. Basically if you're too loud and obnoxious they will sedate you which they did to me. The nurses were all really nice to me. Except for this fat black dude with a tattoo of the devil's head inside a pentagram, which I'm not sure if I hallucinated or not.
>>24608745
They aren't there to help you. They are there for prevent you from killing yourself. That's it.
Why? Fuck if I know.
I've been to one, twice. It was voluntary, yes. It was like a vacation from my shitty life, the staff are actually nice to you. Like just being treated like a human being by the staff was more therapeutic than all the therapy in the world. The day consisted of watching TV, going to therapy groups, talking to other patients, eating and sleeping.
Yeah you have to share a room, or at least you did in the one I was in. You got your own toilet but not a shower.
>>24608903
>It was like a vacation from my shitty life
That's really what I want. I just need my life taken out of my hands for a while, so that I can have the time to take myself apart and remake myself.
Any idea how much it cost?
>>24608903
>tfw I want to do this, but I know I wouldn't be able to enjoy it because I would just be thinking about how crazy my friends and family think I am and how they would be talking about me while I was in there.
>>24608928
It's a lot, however I'm in America and it was covered by my insurance (Medicaid). All I had to do was go to an ER and tell them if I went home I was going to commit suicide, the rest was talking to social workers about exactly why it was I wanted to commit suicide. Most of them feel bad for you.
It's a lot.. thousands of dollars a day. There are trained nurses and psychiatrists on the payroll. Of course like with any medical bill you can just throw it in the trash and eventually they will stop sending them.
>>24608996
> just throw it in the trash and eventually they will stop sending them.
right and then your credit goes down the shitter.
>Private psych hospital for Schizophrenia
>Everyone is nice, most patients there for depression or eating disorders
>As many chicken sandwiches and hot chocolates as I want
>Gourmet meals
>Art classes where you can paint anything you want
>Smoke as much as you want
>>24609018
There's a cheatcode for that>suicide
>>24608996
I don't actually want to commit suicide. I guess I need to wait until my life gets bad enough that I do. I don't need medication or monitoring or nurses, for that matter. I just need a place where I don't have to worry about life and I have someone who will be supportive and understanding of me as I go to pieces and figure out how to put myself back together the right way.
>>24609027
That sounds great. And extremely expensive.
Here is my story: It was a waste of time and it didn't help. Also no internet.
The food was god tier tho
>Be 911 EMt
>50% of my calls are "Psych Runs"
>This consists of picking up "suicidal/depressed" persons and taking them to the hospital where they will wait sometimes days for a doctor to come and ask them if they want to hurt themselves or others
>Been doing this job 4 years
>100% of the Psych runs have NEVER resulted in someone killing themselves or hurting themselves
>Cops legit just call the ambulance because they are to lazy to take them themselves
>I have no psychatric training, but apparently now I can transport these drama queens
>mfw none of the "patients" realize that by me taking them via ambulance and having interacted with the cops, that when they apply for any job with a background check that it will show up with them having a psychiatric history
>mfw they wont get hired
Stop saying you want to kill yourselves and hurt yourselves outside of this fucking website. Calling the suicide hotline will make them triangulate your cell (Yes they do this) and automatically dispatch a cruiser to your house.
>>24609097
>background check that it will show up with them having a psychiatric history
>they wont get hired
>mfw I have a personality disorder diagnosis in my public health record
>>24609097
yeah.
not many people understand the difference between fleeting thoughts of suicide and actually making plans/getting tools to do it.
>>24609126
What the hell is a public health record? I thought medical records were private.
>>24609138
should be
prob yuros or canadians
>>24609138
They are private, however, Cops have to make a report. When you have the cops come to your house and your transported via ambulance the following happens:
>Cop enters your name, address, complaint, exc.
>His report consists of why he was dispatched (possible psychiatric/suicide)
>The nature of the call (called 911 to investigate)
>And the conclusion (Pt was transported to hospital for psych evaluation via Ambulance)
It doesn't say what you have, however, it does say you were involved in a possible suicide attempt.
>>24609169
>prob yuros
I'm european. Free healthcare and all that.
>>24609041
What happens with unpaid bills/loans if you kill yourself? Just thinking ahead past college.
i have been to a mental hospital 7 times
i was at a place that's considered one of the best and costs $2,200 a day(insurance doesn't cover it). i was there for 5 months
i have a million stories that are funny, tragic and surreal but i don't know where to begin
if anyone thinks it's an interesting topic then you can ask me anything about it
I was in a psychiatric hospital for part of October. I'm 19, was the youngest one there. I was on Ativan the whole time and they put me on Nortriptyline. Didn't really do much during the day except watch shitty movies and do sudoku puzzles. I was assigned a psychiatrist and psychologist who met with me a few times each and they set up outpatient care at my university. There were 3 people to a room with a shared toilet & shower for each room. It was pretty expensive for me to end up there but I probably needed to be there at the time.
>>24609250
How were you able to afford it?
>>24609250
>costs $2,200 a day(insurance doesn't cover it). i was there for 5 months
>$330k
Are you a millionaire?
>>24609246
ayy iktf
>>24609250
>$2,200 a day
>5 months
Holy hell. You could buy a house with that kind of money.
All in all, was it a good experience? If you had it to do over again, would you?
>>24609270
I'm serious though
>>24609284
I am too. If I had an answer I'd tell you.
>>24609299
>When someone dies, debts they leave are paid out of their 'estate' (money and property they leave behind). You're only responsible for their debts if you had a joint loan or agreement or provided a loan guarantee - you aren't automatically responsible for a husband's, wife's or civil partner's debts.
cool
>>24609322
Well, that settles that. No need to feel guilt about my student loans.
>>24609263
>>24609266
my mother started a company that took off and made millions from it
>>24609277
i wish i could go there for another 5 months but i feel too guilty about the money
>>24609345
Maybe you could try a less expensive facility. Do you think it's actually helped you or was it just a good time?
>>24609250
>>24609345
And here I am feeling guilty for my dad paying my rent and giving me 500 bucks a month for food, bills and all the other shit I need for living.
>>24609226
>free
when will this meme end?
>>24609356
>Maybe you could try a less expensive facility
I have, numerous times.
>Do you think it's actually helped you or was it just a good time?
It did help me and it was not a good time. It was maybe the worst period of my life.
I should add that I didn't have to pay anywhere near $330k. Most patients(even severe cases) are only there for about a month at most. The reason I was there for so much longer is because I'm considered an extraordinarily bad case. It was highly unusual to be there for so long so they refunded a lot of the money.
>>24609337
Not unless your parents co-signed on them, which most people do because the banks don't hand out thousands willy nilly. Parents are the fallback that they hound to get reimbursement.
Make sure you check that first.
>>24609436
>The reason I was there for so much longer is because I'm considered an extraordinarily bad case
Do elaborate.
>>24609172
Completely untrue, at least try to make a little bit of sense.
>>24609422
Damn my mom won't even drive me 20 miles to a church so I can get a tent and stop sleeping on the ground. You are one lucky robot.
>>24609473
Yeah, I am. I feel guilty about it whenever I am not drunk.
>>24609546
If you let me live with you you would feel less guilty.
>>24609562
If you're up for cuddling and are cute, sure. Where you at?
>>24609576
Mississippi. I'm a guy but I'm pretty cute.
I got sent last thanksgiving after I got blackout drunk in my basement. My parents thought I had od'd on something but I was just really drunk. They pretty much flushed 3-4 thousand dollars down the toilet. They should have just let me sleep it off. I fucking hate how much money has been spent on my worthless ass.
>>24609598
Wrong continent, sorry. You could sign up for neetpetfinder, if it still exists.
I might be late but I'll share.
>at 19 start experiencing heavy derealization from too much drugs and alcohol
>put in the bin (nickname for the place from the inpatients there) for almost two whole months
>every day is pills being forced down your throat which kinda sucks because of side effects
>literally only thing else to do is watch tv, eat, socialize with others and sleep
>meet this really cute but fucked asian-hispanic looking girl like two or three weeks in
>always fucking singing to herself and talking to imaginary friends
>i mean full on complex conversations with 3-4 different entities
>i tried talking to her to get to know her but she said "my friends don't think you're suitable to talk to me, sorry" started twitching, and walked away
It's bittersweet. She was pretty but fucked beyond repair, I think. Every other night was her screaming in her room.
My mom got out of one a couple weeks ago after trying to kill herself on the 1st. One week involuntary committal.
Wasn't really a psych ward, it operated more like a drug rehab place. A couple group therapy sessions per day, meeting with the doctor to manage meds every couple of days, art classes, etc.
They wore street clothes and shit. Access to a phone whenever they wanted it. No doors on the bedrooms, and they came and checked on you every fifteen minutes.
We could visit her for an hour on Tuesday and Thursday. She seemed a hell of a lot happier in there than she has been since she got home. I don't know.
>>24608622
I wonder why they have 2 yellow chairs when everything else in the room is white
Probably some kind of weird group exercise
>>24609458
Sometimes the doctors break down crying when I'm telling them my life story. A PTSD specialist told me that I have the worst case of PTSD that he has ever seen in 40 years of practicing. Another psychiatrist told me that they have never encountered someone as damaged and twisted.
A majority of the treatment at mental hospitals is group therapy but I have trouble with it. I feel guilty about speaking honestly because of the effect it has on the other patients. They often seem horrified and disturbed by what I say. These are the same people who have no problem listening to story after story of rape and suicide.
Every person there would improve rapidly but I wouldn't get any better. ECT had no effect on me other than obliterating my memory.
>>24608702
You actually can, did it all the time covertly even when there were others sleeping in the room lel
Oh also i lost my virginity thanks to it
>>24609768
>They often seem horrified and disturbed by what I say
..so what exactly happened to you? extreme detail please
>>24609768
>I feel guilty about speaking honestly because of the effect it has on the other patients.
Go on, I feel like crying for a change.
>>24609794
My sister, father and therapist dying did damage to me but that's not what really destroyed me.
When I was 7 or 8 my sister developed a brain tumor. She went from being someone I loved to the most sickening monster. She was like Linda Blair from the Exorcist. She very much enjoyed torturing me. I think that the worst abuse I received from her wasn't physical but she was violent and she did try to decapitate me when I was 8. I don't know how to describe what it was like living with her for so many years.
>>24609942
so doctors think your experience was worse than that of soldiers who've seen people have their arms blown off and shit like that?
>>24609942
>she did try to decapitate me when I was 8
That's kinda harsh.
>>24609942
You should post some more in-depth stories about it if you're feeling up to it.
Can a brain tumor really cause someone to change like that?
>>24609995
You fail to realise that a child has a lot less in the way of coping mechanisms than an adult does. If you hit an adult square in the face and then do the same thing to a 8yo kid, which do you think is going to suffer more?
>>24609995
No, and I don't either. That PTSD specialist said that I was more damaged than them, not that I had experienced a more traumatic situation. You have to remember that people react completely differently to the same situations. Some kids never, ever get over being beaten brutally by their parents. Other children get past it just fine.
>>24610008
>You should post some more in-depth stories about it if you're feeling up to it.
I'll try to, my memory has been obliterated.
>Can a brain tumor really cause someone to change like that?
Yes, you can look up horror stories.
>>24609942
Did she die?
>>24610147
Oh wait, how old were you when she died? :(
>>24610169
She died two years ago at the age of 28. The surgery to remove the tumor was done when she was 12 and I was 8, I think. I remember walking down the hall at school on the day of the surgery and everybody saying to me "We're praying for your sister" and thinking to myself that I really hope she dies in surgery. It would have been so much better for everyone if she had died then and the doctors said it was very likely that she would.
>>24610066
who's the bearded philosopher?
>>24608665
You can get your own room by telling them the demons in your head tell you to kill your roommates at night
I've clocked over a year in the psych ward all together. Chronic paranoid schizophrenia.
>>24608622
It was just really boring.
>>24610254
What did she die from exactly? Did anyone miss her? What else did she do?
>>24610186
I was 24.
I'm sorry that I can't remember more stories but here's one to illustrate what a monster she was:
My father was dying for years due to leukemia caused by Agent Orange. He was in the hospital and we got a call that he would probably die in the next few hours and that we should rush there to say goodbye. A lot of my relatives were there at the hospital when we got there. All of the attention was of course on my father which infuriated my sister. She told my father, hours before he died, that he was sickening trash and that she was glad he was going to be dead soon because she deprived her of one night of attention.
Do you guys have any questions about the mental hospital stays?
>>24609473
Story?
Lthis is le original comment
>>24610326
>What did she die from exactly?
The brain damage caused all kinds of health complications, one being that she would stop breathing when sleeping. She was on a machine that fixes that problem but she was so stubborn that she would constantly try to fall asleep without it. One day she fell asleep without the machine and by the time the aide she lived with noticed it she was dead.
>Did anyone miss her?
Yes, my mother and other relatives. She was by far the most popular girl in school before she got sick so she had old friends that turned up at the funeral and cried. They of course abandoned her after she became a monster and I don't blame them for that.
I was super Chad before my sister fucked me up. It's funny that we were both the most popular kids considering how we ended up.
>>24609246
They disappear after taking everything in your estate that they can (assuming worth is less than debt). They will try to trick family/friends into taking "responsibility" for the debt, but that's it. It is part of their responsibility (loan companies) in the contract.
>>24610341
Should have beat up that bitch desu.
>>24610570
I cut off all of my emotions to keep myself from killing her. I don't know how I never hit her, especially when she was attacking me. After she attacked me with a knife my parents told me "If she tries to kill you again you have our permission to beat the shit out of her". I never could allow myself to hurt her though, I felt so guilty for even hating her.
>>24609084
>The food was god tier tho
that's weird, the food has been fucking awful at every mental hospital i've ever been to
>>24610633
>I don't know how I never hit her
I'm no psychologist, but I strongly suspect you being a pussy might have something to do with it
>>24608622
I was in one for a week when I was in the ninth grade. Involuntary.
>be me
>depressed as fuck
>threaten to kill myself during a counseling session
>forced into mental health ward of a hospital for a short time
>actually wasn't THAT bad
>had to share a room with someone
>first shared it with this super homophobic but otherwise okay dude who was violent but nice to me
>later shared it with this vaguely sociopathic Chad who was funny and a bro to me
>there was this qt I was attracted to who I probably creeped out
>did things like behavioral exercises and such
>relaxation techniques
>wasn't really one of those fucked up Bedlam places where they treat their patients like shit
It was a low point but honestly I'd do it again if I had to. Sometimes I think about checking into another mental hospital just to escape.
>>24608745
it's a lot worse than that in a lot of places
>>24608745
Also this. The VAST majority of psych wards in America today (I'd wager), along with psych wards in other first world countries, are legit, with helpful staff and everything.
You still hear the occasional story about a place like that, but for the most part, those days are long gone.
I worked in one for 12 months. It is weird reading the perspective of the patient.
>>24611133
Any stories? What was your position there?
>>24611008
a lot of places are still very fucked up and treat patients terribly(i'm talking about in america).
i know from a few places i've been to
>>24608622
Nice dubs. Thanks for making me remember that. Trigger'd.
>>24611243
Shit, I don't know what to tell you.
The place I stayed at and from what I hear, most places are rather nice and professional.
You just got unlucky.
>>24611331
you're very wrong
i don't think you know what you're talking about
>>24611434
Oh fuck off.
That doesn't change the fact that I'm right.
>>24611212
I was only support staff and it was a low-medium secure facility so the patients were on their way back to living in the community. As for stories there was an incident of a patient not taking medication and saving them in his room. He crushed over 50 of them and tried to poison another patient. Not much happened usually and I got paid to chat and play pool with them. I still consider some of them to be more sane than me but got comfortable staying there and feigned mental illness.
I wonder what they would do if you were actively trying to oppose the "treatment". Sedate you? That alone makes any facility like this pretty bad.
I want to volunteer at a psych ward, how do I go about doing it?
>>24611657
They're not going to sedate you if its any facility worth its salt.
>>24611738
I mean just imagine you get thrown into a facility like this. You don't want to be there. You know being there fucks up your future prospects bad. And they want to drug you, keep you closed in there. So you don't talk to anyone, you don't take the medicine, you ignore the staff and do nothing in the sessions. What will a facility worth its salt do? Just keep you closed there with passive-agreessive treatment until you break? And they're surprised that people get agressive?
Is it fun to be in a psychward? I mean i would love to have some routine in my life
>>24611738
Any good facility will have a rapid tranquillisation policy if you pose a threat. But they will offer a voluntary oral sedative first. If you refuse you will be held down, pumped full of Haloperidol or something similar and you will wake up with a beard.
>mfw they tried to give me a roommate
I refused to go into the room at bed time
they gave me a bunch of meds and made me sleep in the quite room and the next day i had my own room
>>24611756
No answer yet? If these wards are like some of the people here said "Not so bad" then I would really like to know how they handle this.
Obviously I'm arguing from a position of someone who does NOT want to be there. I guess that's the main difference.
>>24610633
I'm so sorry this has happened to you anon, ongoing, multi-faceted trauma like that is really fucking horrible. You're amazing for surviving
Did you find after your sister died that the trauma had sort of.. Concluded? I'm not sure the right word. Did your mental health go more downhill after the traumatic events ceased?
Also, I'd like to hear some of your stories, especially if they centre around eating time. I was in a psych ward and even though I was too doped up for specific memories I remember the whole school cafeteria like environment made for weird times.
>>24609425
this
healthcare
aint
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>24611962
I can't speak for facilities I havn't been to and every patients case worker will recomend different things but if they want to medicate you maybe they have a reason to. They don't do it out of malice maybe if you were being treated for your illness you would't want to ignore staff and not join in. What im saying is if you have an illness your case worker will try to treat it and if you refuse treatment how can you get better.
>>24612063
Why does the staff think they have the authority to treat you? This baffles me the most, the arrogance. How they try to 'help" you even if you don't ask for it. They push you and when you push back suddenly you're the bad one and you get drugged? I mean maybe I'm just stubborn willful asshole who needs to get beat up couple of times, but whenever someone pushes me into something because they think it's good for me, I refuse and resist just out of principle.
>>24609768
dull em
>>24612160
they dont till you go before a judge and get sent to a state facility
if you are there against your will you get sent to court and get a lawyer
if you go past this step you probably need the meds
>>24612188
Telling someone you're feeling suicidal is enough to get sent there though. Just few words. Think about it. Let that sink in how easily can your life be destroyed(who would want to hire someone with a record of mental ward presence). Just because some asshole, maybe some asshole like you who thinks you need the meds. Is anyone still surprised that mental illnesses often go undiagnosed and untreated?
>>24612160
In England you can be detained under the mental health act, this is called being sectioned. This gives them legal authority to keep you there against your will. I guess your argument is a moral one but if you have a problem why would't you want to solve it. If you were suicidal you would have probably commited by now.
For the most part it was very mundane and boring, but I was first put in because of really bad psychosis, I was one of the worst cases they had seen so I was kept in for 6 months, so for the first two months I was absolutely out of my mind before I started to come out of it.
Problem is when you're in that state, people take the piss, or try to take advantage of you, I think I was abused in some way, and one guy was a sexual predator who I figured out was trying to groom me but luckily I started to come out of it by that point and threatened that if he came near me again, I would smash his face in, so he stopped.
Another guy would harass me constantly to the point that even the nurses gave me a heads up that if I did something they would turn a blind eye, so I hit him with a pool cue, he stopped. Nothing came of that even if I wasn't liable, not one word was mentioned to me.
For the most part though the people are really friendly, will share smokes with you if you don't have any, and when I was more stable I would always help the new comers who just came in and offer them some legit coffee and a cig, since they didn't give anything caffeinated and it wasn't allowed. There was definitely some comradery outside of the few outliers who were just cunts.
The nurses were friendly, but if you pissed them off they will get rough with you a long with the security, and let it be known, and if you act up enough they will haldol you in the butt and lock you in your room while they would sit outside on a chair watching you.
So yeah, the time spent consisted of, pool, going outside for a smoke, watching TV, then now and again there was a few activities like painting, and if you had that level of clearance, you could go for a walk around the grounds with a mixed team of nurses and security to make sure you don't leg it.
Now and again shit would really fucking kick off though, and those were always the most fun times to watch as it was just so boring.
>>24612205
Maybe the reason for mental illness being undiagnosed and untreated is people like you who create a taboo around it. If you broke your arm no one would think twice about going to hospital and fixing it. Mental health shouldn't be though of any differently.
>>24611625
Cats and boots ay mate?
>>24612277
That's not really true though. It's like having a dog. A dog who is really cute and nice and never does anything bad and then one day it lashes out. You can never trust him again after that. Most people actually get the dog put down.
Mental illness is the same. It makes you unstable and unpredictable as a human being . And that is possibly dangerous. Also before you start accusing me, I could probably benefit from some kind of mental treatment, but I'm not gonna seek it and out myself as a nutcase.
>>24610272
epicurus i think
>>24612376
Unfortunatley I agree with you to a certain extent, some people are just too far gone but some people make excellent progress and turn their life around. If someone doesn't want help forcing it upon them is rarely successful. As for future employment in the uk section 2 doesn't show up on record but section 3 does but I don't know how in work where you live. But I would say there are jobs out there that you can still get.
Any British people here have experience of voluntarily staying at a mental ward?
>>24612467
Sure there are, but it's hurting your chances. Big time.
