/mental/ - Mental Health, Illnesses and Disorders

>>12408

Where do you live and for which age category? I only have experience in Canada with adolescent wards. I'll tell you anyway. It's really boring, especially on weekends. Bring a book for sure. There are groups usually, which are stupid and pointless I find. People were friendly in the places I went to. I actually often really liked being there, because I got to meet and be with people rather than being a shut in. I also feel better inside because I like the support and temporary lack of responsibility.

>>12409

I will add that in adult wards they pay less attention to you and the people are weirder and less friendly. I base this on what the staff told me and what I saw from the patients in the emergency psychiatry unit.

allegedly schizophrenics are very good-humored but at times there are fights in psychiatric hospitals among patients

It's very very bland and boring there.

Imagine an office building but with a bed, table, and sink in it.

You're gonna wanna bring something to occupy yourself. They won't let you have electronics and they may not let you have pencils/pens(thankfully, the one I went to let me so long as they kept the pencils/pens in their possession when I was finished with whatever I was doodling, but they were really reluctant.) Bring several books, because when the boredom hits, you will feel it quite hard if you have nothing to do. I just drew pictures and sang to myself in my 'cell' while I was there for the most part.

While there, you will probably do group activities, take a few written tests(not all that different from one of those online mental health quizzes, just longer), and talk to a few doctors that will ask you questions about your problems. And, if you haven't done it before, they may do the whole inkblot test thing. Not sure of the purpose behind it as I thought it was phased out of use, but apparently not.

The only time you will be forced to 'mingle' with folks is in group activities. I found a couple of them too distressing and I actually excused myself on one of them when I felt it was pissing me off.

Of course, it is of utmost importance to try to be as truthful as possible with the doctors there. I made the mistake of not doing that on my visit and keeping things hidden as I do with regular people. They're there to try and find out what is wrong to the very source and try to fix it.

Lunch is the best time. Hospital food has a reputation for being awful, but for some reason the food that was served in the psychiatric unit of the hospital I was at was absolutely fantastic.

To sum it up, boredom is the biggest issue. Otherwise it isn't bad.

I've been hospitalized over 17 times been to mostly adolescent units but I've been to one adult unit.

I liked the people better in adolescent units and I like the setting and doctors better in the adult unit.

In the adult unit I got more freedom and alone time. I was also allowed to have electronics there. There was only one group a day and you were even allowed to go outside. The people there were not as friendly though. Mostly Depressed older adults who didn't know what to do with their life anymore. A lot in their 30's or 40's.

In the adolescent units there usually wasn't much freedom and it was very boring. The hospitals differed a lot. I've been to some that weren't too bad and even would plug your music device into the speakers for you room so you could listen. Others I've been to wouldn't even let you wear your own clothes. It differed a lot.

My mom tried to have me sent to a crooked one when I was 13, but after a couple days they said there was nothing wrong with me, I showed no signs of aggression and was just depressed.

I had a blast. Presumably to keep us docile they drugged me with something the first night I got there. The next morning I jumped out of bed all excited and within minutes I was everyone's best friend.

I spent the majority of my time there flirting with an extremely gorgeous, but messed up 14 year old girl. She was Hispanic, but pale with green eyes, freckles and red hair. She had the most enormous breasts I'd ever seen in my life. There were other girls who wanted to fool around (everyone was kind of pairing up, and I was one of very few guys there who was relatively normal) but my focus was on that one honestly.

See at night for fire safety reasons all our rooms locked from the outside but could still be opened from within, so everyone would just open their door, put a door stop out, and then go knock on the door of whoever they wanted to get busy with.

The young adult and adolescent wards just feels like boring youth hostels.