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Anonymous 12/02/14 (Tue) 03:11:28 b3f49f No. 3319
Have any of you ever been in a psych hospital/psych ward? What was it like?
Anonymous 12/02/14 (Tue) 03:16:58 c4b0d9 No. 3320
>>3319 Like minimum security prison with all of your time structured from the moment you wake up to the moment your head hits the pillow. Your roommate may be a legitimate psychopath, a pathetic depressive like you, or just a normalfag who likes to party too much and doesn't respect authority.
It's a great way to learn first hand how psychiatry is a bullshit con game where jews make it up as they go along while your insurance company is being charged 4000 dollars a day.
Anonymous 12/02/14 (Tue) 03:31:26 b3f49f No. 3321
>>3320 Why were you there, if you don't mind me asking? Suicide attempt?
Anonymous 12/02/14 (Tue) 18:32:29 c4b0d9 No. 3332
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>>3321 Just being generally suicidal, twice.
It really is a joke and every psychiatrist I ever met there had obvious control issues they were playing out on the patients. One of them was such a snotty asshole that a former patient firebombed his car while I was there.
pic related, it's the kind of cokehead dirtbag who would spend his days fucking with you.
Anonymous 12/03/14 (Wed) 00:31:43 c4b0d9 No. 3335
>>3332 aaaaaand I just got back from my first session with a psychiatrist in 20 years. Holy shit, was that guy ever a fucking cunt. Worst people ever.
Anonymous 12/03/14 (Wed) 02:00:58 db6f7a No. 3336
>>3335 God, I sympathize. I'm on my fifth therapist.
Anonymous 12/03/14 (Wed) 05:45:18 9aff89 No. 3339
>>3320 What this guy said. It's basically prison with structured time. Don't expect to go outside ever, prepare for annoying group therapy sessions and bad roommates. It's a really mind numbing place.
Expect to see some shit too. I saw several people become violent, and they were subsequently tackled and stabbed with syringes to subdue them. I heard that a few weeks before I was admitted, somebody had their eyes stabbed out with a colored pencil. Watch your back.
I was in for three months, and I passed the time by reading whenever I could. I guess in a way it was a bit refreshing to take a break from life for a while and it gave me some perspective, but putting up with the bullshit of daily life is better than being in a mental hospital.
Anonymous 12/03/14 (Wed) 19:44:23 165fbc No. 3343
I was at one in my childhood and it was a very authoritarian place.
Anonymous 12/03/14 (Wed) 19:45:28 486032 No. 3344
I've been committed several times due to failed suicide attempts. It really depends on the hospital or facility. I met my ex in one, but it wasn't under the best of circumstances. We were sitting in the day room and I was working on a puzzle. It was me, her, and some random guy. Hadn't seen the orderlies for a while and the guy looks around and asks me if I want to rape her. She was drugged out of her gourd and not able to defend herself, so I beat the shit out of him. From that point on, she followed me around everywhere. When she got out she came by to visit everyday until I got out. I was at St. Anthony in OKC one time and it was terrible. Filled with violent nigger that were sent there by the courts. ECT left me a drolling retard most of the time, and completely disconnected from reality the rest of the time. I finally got free from there when I ended up breaking into an electrical panel and when they found me I was explaining to them how I was going to use a toy I had found to make the hospital explode. In my experience the smaller the facility the better usually. If you are lucky you can talk to your psyche and convince them not to medicate you.
Anonymous 12/04/14 (Thu) 03:59:45 597946 No. 3362
>>3336 >therapist the rapist
Fixed that for yah.
Anonymous 12/05/14 (Fri) 06:32:03 470651 No. 3381
>>3335 >>3336 >>3362 Man I remember when I used to go to therapists. They fucking sucked.
One of them forced me to do group sessions. Because, you know, making someone who hates people be stuck in a room filled with shitty degenerates that are gonna grow up to be hustlers is a great idea.
Another put me on zoloft. I actually almost OD'ed on them once.
Last one made me join their stupid weekly camp group where they go somewhere and hike. I greatly expressed how I didn't want to do it and she literally said I had no choice. During the hike I tripped and fell in a rapid river and nearly went down a waterfall. Not one of them tried to save me.
Fuck therapists.
Anonymous 12/05/14 (Fri) 09:40:20 c658ac No. 3384
Do people actually get locked up if they fail committing suicide in Clapistan?
Anonymous 12/05/14 (Fri) 22:26:41 e14e27 No. 3388
>>3384 In actual grown-up prison, no.
In psych ward prison, usually.
Anonymous 12/06/14 (Sat) 01:25:22 8a273c No. 3390
Am I the only one who had a good experience? Where I was the nurses were nice, or at least ok. I was there voluntarily so I could go outside any time I wanted. There was no mandatory group sessions, and no schedule beyond meals, and also sleeping at night and staying awake during day. Before hospital I slept very little, I didn't eat much and I isolated my self from others. So the regular meal times and forced to be among other people, and to sleep everyday, helped me. I was less suicidal, and had less anxiety after I got home.
Anonymous 12/06/14 (Sat) 16:00:53 c43f9c No. 3403
I've been committed four times due to a failed suicide attempt and psychosis. It's ironic, but I find a sense of freedom in the places. There are no social norms to live up to. You can act how you want because everyone thinks you're crazy anyway. The last place I went had a very structured routine. My roommate was there because she thought she was a prophet. In public, she had tried to tell passerby whether they were going to heaven or not and taken off her all her clothes.
Anonymous 12/06/14 (Sat) 17:03:02 7951da No. 3405
>>3384 It's not prison if it's for your own good :^)
Anonymous 12/06/14 (Sat) 20:49:00 8a273c No. 3418
>>3405 Depends what you mean by "good". If you don't value life and want to die, then the healthcare system if working against you.
I don't accept life as sacred.
Anonymous 12/06/14 (Sat) 22:03:12 7951da No. 3419
>>3418 :^) is from an NSA document, I was being sarcastic
Anonymous 12/08/14 (Mon) 01:25:06 2e725e No. 3429
>>3332 >>3320 This was when I was in high school, basic depression, hanging attempt. Basically you get smug rich assholes who like messing with you because they can. I'm not even being biased here, it's actually fucked up.
I remember the second day in (every day you have a 30min 1on1 session with a psychiatrist) and it was an Indian guy filling in for the normal balding White guy. He asked why I was in there, even though my file said it (I had to go to the hospital after the attempt). I told him: "I tried to hang myself". He said "So why did you do that". " I wanted to die, but I see what I did was wrong". Then he said the shittiest thing a human could: "I hope you like the food here, because you'll be here a long time."
The food was actually really good, probably to tempt the anorexic girls to eat it. Never eaten better in my life.
The group therapy guys were just psych students from the local university. They were kind of cool
Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 01:57:05 2b8e7e No. 3466
i was there for hallucinating men trying to kill me. not really men but human shaped beings. they asked me at the hospital weather i thought of harming myself and i responded "who hasnt" so they put me there and tried to treat me for schizophrenia. my roomie never said a word to me then left, my second roomie watched his uncle get killed by police after killing 4 officers. dont know why he was there though, he was huge (im 6"2' and he towered over me). one guy im friends with on facebook now tried to climb the fence during our outdoor time. he was never let out again. because i was big the day i got there they showed me the iso cage which is as dark and sealed in as you imagine. never went there, never caused trouble. got out in 2 weeks, hated every second
Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 06:05:01 bb718e No. 3475
I have been in one. In some way, it was alright. I am not depressed anymore and I really just checked this board out to see what its all about (as if the name wasn't obvious enough). Basically, much of my depression came from stress that managed to perpetuate itself without a really good reason. It had a reason at its start but by the time I got to a psych hospital, it had been years since there was a big reason. Anyway, that is where it helped. The hospital ward was relatively stress free for me. Suddenly all the minor things that accumulated stress for me were gone and that certainly helped. The bad stuff? Pretty much everything else. The people I met there were cool, some of the nurses were cool, the psychiatrist fucking sucked. I mean, my twice a week psychiatrist visit was 3 minutes top, and it went something like "how are you doing?" "somewhat better" "Ok, we will keep the prescription". I am barely exaggerating here, perhaps 2 more lines were said but nothing more. The fuck was even on vacation for 2 of the 4 weeks I was there. I met the psychologist once, didn't reach anything worthwhile. The physical activities were kind of Ok. But all the rest of the organised stuff was shit. Even at the last day it was clear that its all about the money. It was the last day after my exams, basically what would be a totally stress free period for me, so there was no use in still being there. So in the morning I asked if I could be let go of it. The psychiatrist was against it, until noon, suddenly I had to pack my shit in 30 minutes and be out of there, they found somebody else to fill the bed I was in. It is kind of fucked to see how commercial it all was. Also fuck the pills, I took them when I was there, but I noticed that after about a week or two, I was sometimes reacting a lot more aggressive than I ever would before. I asked the psychiatrist (another one, which was good but sadly was still in education, so wasn't allowed to do real visits bla bla bla) if it could be because of the pills I was acting like that. She said yes so the day I was out of there I just quit them although they say you really shouldn't. And you probably shouldn't but I seem to have turned out alright after that. Anyway, I probably wouldn't return to them if I had a depression for any reason other than stress, the only benefit for a stress induced depression is that you get full doctors notes for your stay there, so legally in most european countries you will be fine.
Anonymous 12/09/14 (Tue) 17:41:59 c4b0d9 No. 3485
>>3475 >>3429 I wonder if psychiatrists treat their middle class patients with more respect than they do depressed kids and welfare patients. I've never heard reports from them but I can only hope so.
Anonymous 12/10/14 (Wed) 05:33:44 b90bdc No. 3510
>>3429 I once went in for suicidal thoughts. Doc asked what i was going to do when I got out, and I said probably try to kill myself after a while. Got pissed as fuck.
Food was eh. I'm italian american so one of the few things i pride myself in is my culinary skills.
They put me in group therapy with other people suffering from personality disorders (small institution, couldn't split that up) and me and a girl were the only ones with BPD. We obviously talked more because of this. She's doing much better than I am at this point, though.
Anonymous 12/10/14 (Wed) 06:17:25 7f2b44 No. 3513
>>3320 I agree with this guy. It was like a prison. I think it was worse, because in the prison I went to, they didn't watch everything you did, and you had more free time, and there were people who would sneak in food and cigarettes, and they didn't make you take pills.
Anonymous 12/11/14 (Thu) 04:29:44 0f1793 No. 3528
If you go you'll die inside, OP. After a month or so your soul will crush.
Anonymous 12/12/14 (Fri) 00:25:50 66be8f No. 3545
Was suicidal due to a mis-healed collarbone. Power tripping nurse had me detained the moment i mentioned suicidal thoughts. I made up a story about being gay, to get out sooner. Big fake coming out talk to my mom. I was out in three days, while most were there for a month or three. Forced to go on anti depressants that made me worse, and talk to counselors that didn't help. Took me five years to get any kind of pain meds for my chronic pain, the actual cause of suicidal thoughts. Many surgeries as well to correct the initial problem. They are a prison designed to force you into a drug induced comma. Living hell/10. I no longer value human life after being through one. I fantasize about cannibalism and torture after what my fellow man did to me.
Anonymous 12/23/14 (Tue) 02:37:03 2e725e No. 3900
>>3510 I'm italian too, but they had some rubens and and real italian sauce, none of that jar shit.
>>3485 I think it's possible, but only because they think they can exert more power over those kids. Not to mention they can't speak out for mistreatment. I tried, almost got sent back for slander and manipulation.
Anonymous 12/23/14 (Tue) 04:16:40 748807 No. 3902
>>3320 >psychiatry is a bullshit con game where jews make it up as they go along while your insurance company is being charged 4000 dollars a day. My brother was in a Psych ward, I myself have mental issues, and I could not agree more.
I'm in Europe and the health care is actually free, but obviously they still make that money (through taxes). For them to make that money I need to be in that system.
I'm going to a counselor myself, and it's such crap. Again, it's "free", so I'm not losing anything, but the bitch clearly doesn't have a clue how to counsel me. I've been going since May, and I still have plans and ambitions to kill myself. The counselor wants me to sign on for another year of therapy. WHY? IT HASN'T WORKED THIS LAST 7 MONTHS, WHY WOULD ANOTHER YEAR CHANGE ANYTHING?
She just wants dat paycheck.
Anonymous 12/26/14 (Fri) 06:12:56 db6f7a No. 3985
OP here. Funnily enough, I got sent to a mental hospital a few days after starting this thread. I had to sleep in a room with a camera for the first three nights which sucked, but after that it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I actually really miss the other people who were there. I might get sent to a residential treatment center soon, which really scares me. I just want to get on with my life or my death –whichever one I chose.
Anonymous 12/26/14 (Fri) 17:34:28 455cfb No. 4001
>>3319 I've never gotten better sleep than when I'm in an instituion or homeless.
Anonymous 12/29/14 (Mon) 02:51:53 b7dcfb No. 4062
Was locked up after I got busted during attempted suicide. The psychiatric ward caused even more misery and did not help in any way. Still wish to die.
Anonymous 12/29/14 (Mon) 12:50:42 9ab54b No. 4087
>>3902 Psychs are true psychos.
Anonymous 12/30/14 (Tue) 05:07:33 67fffd No. 4121
>>3319 Yeah. I started to hallucinate after I OD'd on meth. I was also dosed with some sort of downer (I think it might've been GHB) before being sexually assaulted by a gay man.
I remember hallucinating someone shooting up the psych ward. I also remember a nurse coming in and injecting me with something. By the time that I gained some semblance of consciousness from this psychosis I found myself naked in my tiny hospital room, with the bed moved and all my clothes thrown about. All I could say was that "I was raped". The orderlies didn't really seem to care. I think I heard one mutter "then you better tell the police". Luckily, I managed to get out fairly easily by simply telling the doctor I wasn't going to harm myself.
Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 03:52:16 2e725e No. 4289
>>3344 >In my experience the smaller the facility the better usually. If you are lucky you can talk to your psyche and convince them not to medicate you. You do sound crazy bro, but I feel you.
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Overall I think the system needs to be reformed. No one will listen to us because they think we're crazy, and in some cases we actually are. I want to get this fixed. For all of us.
Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 04:19:56 e72ff8 No. 4291
Yes. I had really bad depersonalization and every day was like an extended panic attack, and I felt like I couldn't live another day that way. I volunteered myself to rehab through my therapist, and the minute the doors closed behind me I knew I made a mistake. I'm a bit of a claustrophobe, confinement scares the hell out of me. That being said, the people in there were so much worse off than me. I felt guilty having family coming to visit me when most of these people didn't have anyone. People with multiple personalities, people with anger issues, people who were honestly out of their minds, I realized how lucky I was to not fit in there. I once asked a nurse if I could please close my door and beat/scream into a pillow for a bit to let off some of the stress of being so alone and scared. She looked at me like she'd never heard anything so strange and I realized I was more sane and courteous than the people they usually get. The third day I had managed to convince them I'd be better on the outside and that the buspar and xanax were helping and they let me go. Dad driving me home and letting me smoke a cigarette in the car to my favorite Pearl Jam song will stick with me for the rest of my life. I was still scared but the knowledge that it could be a lot worse helped me actually move on with my life.
Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 06:07:26 9dea69 No. 4294
Oh boy do I have a story for you I attempted suicide after my step-mom told me my father didn't want me around anymore so I tried to shoot myself and it didn't work out. Anyway I went to a place called Springwoods for a week. Pretty much that ended in me coming out to my dad which was awful. It was a really proper nice hospital, and was not grungy like the other one. I was also given a journal to write in when I pleased, which was nice. I picked up the book Jane Eyre while I was there, which has since become my favorite book. I met a lot of friendly people there and the food was good. Some negatives: My first roommate was able to use the frame of his glasses to cut open his leg and stared me in the eye as he did so the first night I was there, so I ran into the common area fearing for my life. Also, I was immmediately put on Zoloft though I objected (I was a minor, mind you). My concerns about the side effects of the medication were tossed aside as unnecessary worrying. About a week later I was sent to Vista healthcare, as I had planted things in my journal for my stepmother to read. According to that, I was still suicidal and I halucinated about a ghost of a boyfriend past, and that I was once again in love with him. I figured if I stayed long enough my father would blame her, and really this was all her fault in the first place. Anyway, vista was a total shit. All the people there were very misbehaved, though I did enjoy the company of a young child that also spoke Spanish. I finished reading Jane Eyre here, though I had to wait for it to be cleared. One of the orderlies had known i wanted to read it though and had it rushed through. I really apprepoliceted her. In this hospital, any television programmes that weren't rated G were not permitted, which sucked. Also, I was put on increasingly larger doses of Zoloft and then eventually Effexor by a doctor that wasn't my primary one at that facility. I also had sex for the first time there, which was interesting but I regretted it afterward. I also ejaculated into a later roommate's boxers. I kept up the illusion that I was halucinating and made one psychiatrist to believe I was shcizophrenic, which I hoped would prolong me leaving. Alas, the insurance did not clear so I had to go home, and wait for my father to arrange a divorce from the woman that had abused me far too many times. I later told him that it was all an act, which I have explained here.
Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 06:57:40 084d79 No. 4295
I have been in one in Western Europe so my experiences maybe different to American ones where it costs a lot more money. Pretty much low security prison with activities and meal times, I have OCD though so could not eat any of the food and flat out refused the activities, after a couple of days I was let out 8 hours a day and pretty much only returned to sleep which was some bureaucratic shit where to see the psychiatrists you had to be "living" there. After about 10 days I couldn't take it anymore and left on the condition that I become an outpatient which I still am 2 years later.
Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 19:28:52 28d677 No. 4314
>Adolescent ward when I was in my teens Just juvy with suicidal people
Anonymous 02/08/15 (Sun) 08:18:18 8ef24a No. 5634
I was put there for cutting off the ears of ppl and shoving the ears up their asses. It was in the military, we were in Germany but it wasn't war time. I thought I would be pro active and start a war.
John Doe 02/09/15 (Mon) 20:14:50 c2faf6 No. 5691
>>3344 >We were sitting in the day room and I was working on a puzzle. It was me, her, and some random guy. Hadn't seen the orderlies for a while and the guy looks around and asks me if I want to rape her. She was drugged out of her gourd and not able to defend herself, so I beat the shit out of him. From that point on, she followed me around everywhere. When she got out she came by to visit everyday until I got out. sounds cute at least on paper.
John Doe 02/12/15 (Thu) 00:00:45 eb25d6 No. 5851
I got caught in the midst of a nicotine OD once (don't do that shit it's so fucking unpleasant) Ended up going to the ER, told them I was just doing it for attention and that I got off on being taken care of. They got irritated with me and let me go psych ward-free. Really you just have to feed their self-righteousness/egos if you don't wanna end up in one.
John Doe 02/12/15 (Thu) 04:49:33 731872 No. 5874
It wasn't too bad for me the two times I've been locked in. I was kept in my room the majority of the time and couldn't leave due to the big ass steel door. I did get really comfortable socks for free. Shit was alright
John Doe 02/12/15 (Thu) 23:39:57 a29e2d No. 5888
>>3332 I don't know. I was committed in one in Oklahoma and most of the staff was absolute shit, but there was this one great psyche that didn't give a fuck. He was this giant Russian named Dr. Tsarevich. He would call me into his office and pull out a bottle and drink while he talked with me. Really great guy.
John Doe 02/13/15 (Fri) 20:29:07 9dae7e No. 5905
John Doe 02/14/15 (Sat) 12:12:18 8bc504 No. 5925
>>3384 I got locked up for it, and I'm in the Netherlands
John Doe 02/14/15 (Sat) 16:15:14 bfad40 No. 5930
>>3319 Years ago I was stupid enough to think that "getting help" would make my life better so I saw a psychiatrist who sent me here:
http://www.homewoodhealth.com/health-centre Contrary to the nice pictures on the website, the place was a hell hole and it was one of the worst experiences of my life.
I swore no matter how bad things got I would never, ever go back. You basically get treated like an animal, no matter how high functioning or rational you are. There are obviously staff who are just there to collect a paycheque. I was repeatedly humiliated and got in trouble for not attending "therapy" sessions that were obviously bullshit and a waste of time.
Do you enjoy privacy? Dignity? Freedom? Then never go to a mental health ward unless it's some kind of luxury rehab.
John Doe 02/14/15 (Sat) 16:30:19 bfad40 No. 5931
>>5930 I was lucky in that I didn't have a roomate for of my time, and when I did get one he was an outpatient so he was rarely around.
I was also lucky because I was given maximum "privileges" from the start because of my situation, so I was able to go outside and into town. If I was stuck with a roomate and confined to the ward I probably would have lost it and tried to break out.
John Doe 02/14/15 (Sat) 21:47:00 d7360a No. 5939
Yeah. Surprisingly good for free and being in Alberta. Average food, sometimes delicious, sometimes terrible. A variety of programs, a few every mon-fri, psychiatrist was better than most I'd think, but still a psychiatrist. Same questions everytime. "How are you feeling? Scale of 1-10." "How's your appetite?" "Sleeping well?" The psych aides were what made it, they did the dirty work of the place and I found them to be the real therapy. I can think of 5 aides off the top of my head who were fantastic. I spent more time talking to them, and playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate with a couple of them, than actually going to the programs. Could definitely use more psychologists for a mental health hospital though, only on Fridays if I remember correctly. Was about to post hilarious stories but I forgot where I was.
John Doe 02/15/15 (Sun) 01:09:38 46bb6e No. 5949
I was (this) close to going to one… I'm so scared to go that I put all my energy into trying not to be suicidal, but yknow…
John Doe 02/15/15 (Sun) 17:12:47 58e4e5 No. 5960
How do I get in one of these? Locked away from reality and living my days as a drooling retard seems like a good alternative to my current life of anxiety and fear of everything that has to do with another human.
John Doe 02/17/15 (Tue) 00:45:46 66eac2 No. 6004
>>5960 Simply phone your local emergency line and say that you are feeling suicidal and have a plan to kill yourself. As long as you keep saying this, it is against the law to remove you from inpatient psychiatric treatment.
John Doe 02/17/15 (Tue) 05:22:11 6e6e6e No. 6013
>>3319 It was a boring experience. I didn't really benefit much from it, and I ended up getting banned from the place later on.
John Doe 05/29/15 (Fri) 00:42:05 7217e5 No. 8954
>>6013
How's you manage to get banned?
John Doe 05/29/15 (Fri) 09:45:05 ef1d9a No. 8957
I'd like to go in one for a couple weeks or so. I just want a break from my routine, besides expectations of me will be lower when you've been in a nut house
John Doe 05/29/15 (Fri) 09:57:19 2ea252 No. 8958
I'm >>8911
Been in here since Tuesday. It's not too bad. I was lucky and allowed my laptop and phone though, there are others here though who aren't even allowed shoelaces. If you can bullshit it and tell them the rightthings you will have a much better time.
your experience will also vary depending on why your in though. If it's for depression/anxiety like me then honestly it's not gonna feel much different from outside. Just be careful, it goes without saying but a lot of the other inmates who have issues outside of depression can be pretty nuts. One girl here with schizophrenia keeps thinking she has a pet dog with her and goes apeshit and attacks anyone that gets close to it. A lot of the people are super friendly though, just obviously missing a few screws.
Also some real qt's here, there's a few cute emo chicks who are in for cutting but are otherwise super hot and friendly.
John Doe 05/29/15 (Fri) 11:16:04 64f6fd No. 8960
I was in an adolescent ward recently. It was alright, a little degrading to have so little freedom, and to be forced to go to groups pretty often. Honestly, it felt like a weird summer camp that you couldn't leave. I got tired of being there, so I fed them what they wanted to hear, and I was out the next day. The whole experiance made me a lot more comfortable about being mentally fucked up.
I really miss the people I met in there, they were some of the greatest people I ever met.
Zach, Maddie, Haley, I truly hope you found whatever it is that you were looking for.
John Doe 05/29/15 (Fri) 13:45:11 6c0428 No. 8961
When I was a teenager I got admitted when I was grieving. It was terrifying because my family didn't even know where I was, I didn't tell anyone, and they took my possessions and put it behind the reception station. There were no beds left, so I was sitting in a waiting room for about 40 hours with older male patients talking to me in a really uncomfortable manner. I couldn't stop crying for a while when this one kept getting agitated with me and talking to his invisible phone to tell off my boyfriend because he was trying to get me to believe that I was now single thanks to his fantasy conversation. When I cried someone said 'Don't let them see you doing that or you will be here for the rest of your life.'
I didn't get offered a single meal since I didn't have a bed. So I begged to make a phone call to my parents, and instead called a lady I knew that was a respected professional that could successfully get me out into her care.
I just hope that anywhere I end up in the future is not that bad.
John Doe 07/11/15 (Sat) 06:23:29 54d896 No. 9831
>>4294
> I also had sex for the first time there,
With the staff or one of the inmates?
John Doe 07/11/15 (Sat) 07:41:04 9c0d15 No. 9833
I've been in two psychiatric wards and one psychiatric hospital, all in the adolescent sections. I've been admitted 6 times and transferred once, in the period of 1 year. I never attempted suicide outside, but I tried the ligature method inside quite a few times, but I did it wrong. I now know the proper way, so I might give it a go someday. It depends on whether I get back together with this girl I really like; met her in hospital the first time I was admitted. She's probably not coming back, but I'm going to wait a couple of months anyway, then I might give suicide a go.
John Doe 07/13/15 (Mon) 05:52:21 c6c054 No. 9870
I was in the navy. It was, at the time, a last ditch effort to make my life have meaning while also garnering some praise from those around me.
Turns out, the navy is fucking awful. Not seeing the sun for a week at a time, getting maybe 4 hours of sleep every night if I was lucky. Working with literally awful people who were barely smart enough to get out of highschool and only good for taking orders.
I attempted suicide while we were out to sea. I made an attempt to jump overboard, but I was caught before I could fling myself from the ship. Seeing as we were going to be out to sea for another 4 weeks, they couldnt just ship me off to a hospital or psych ward proper, they removed me from my division and put me in the medical division.
I was given a special uniform, it was like everyone elses but it was an ugly shade of olive green. Turns out, that was the ships way of putting you on suicide watch. And by watch, I mean literally everyone watched me no matter what space I was in. At lunch? In the shitter? In my sleeping area? Everyone watched me. No one understood, no one bothered to ask me anything. Just looked at me.
It was agonizing. Someone thought I was doing it to get out of work, so he made a "suicide attempt" with some of the laziest wrist cutting Ive ever seen. We were attatched at the hip for that time, the entire time it was "youre so smart lol" "im gonna nap bro this is awesome" "lol everyone is working right now but us"
Way to make me feel even more useless and terrible, guy.
We pulled in a foreign port, we were given a chaperone, allowed to see the town, though we couldnt drink, and had to be back by sun down, meaning it was basically a waste of time to even leave the ship.
Finally, the docs asked me if I was feeling better enough to go back to work. Ive never felt so blessed to get back to being shat on and overworked in my life.
Not a very conventional suicide watch experience, but there it is.
1/10, would not recommend.
John Doe 07/14/15 (Tue) 22:43:41 433555 No. 9898
>>3390
no you're not. it all depends on how much money you can spend and where you were sent. I have rich parents so they paid for me to stay at a really nice place in north california that hired actual professionals who cared about mental health and helping people. Alas the best intentions are worth shit and I was too much a basket case to learn anything from them so I'm still fucked up and here.
John Doe 07/15/15 (Wed) 04:29:57 608226 No. 9906
>>9898
I wish my problems were separate from my finances. Ah, must be immensely freeing to be wracked with existential angst, and not have to worry about starving until you get over the stigma of fishing for bread in a Subway dumpster.
John Doe 07/18/15 (Sat) 06:13:39 a377c0 No. 10005
I got sent to one because I basically gave myself an eating disorder when I was 14. I stopped eating and giving a fuck about anything and my parents called a psych house to ambush me in the middle of the night and haul me away. These two people from the place just barged into my room and scooped me away. It was fucked up.
All sorts of bullshit quacks questioning me and attempting to drug me. A lot of it was forced without my consent into me. Then they sent me to this facility in Idaho which I later found out was literally operated by a cult organization and it was pretty much nothing but drug addicts and generic at risk teens being used for manual labor. They used us as slave labor to do things for their crazy cult. We operated equipment to bind books, build furniture, all sorts of manual labor tasks. The councilors and therapists were all part of this cult and were not helpful. Being there turned me into a drug user I hung out with drug addicts and learned from them and when I got out they were my only "friends" I came in with an "eating disorder" and left with serious drug issues that I still have today.
John Doe 07/19/15 (Sun) 06:40:30 deb0e0 No. 10030
I only have experience with adolescent programs. Adulthood has evened me out.
The worst thing overall is that they mix patient demographics up. Yeah this suicidal friendless guy is totally gonna be cured/functional at discharge when they're surrounded by drug addicts, sex offenders, arsonists, and what have you. They warn you not to try to make friends, but that's very difficult to do, especially at that age. People, especially kids, pick up the traits of others sometimes, that's just fucking life and treatment factories should be created with that in mind instead of leaving the burden on the patient.
http://www.hillcrestec.org/highpoint I didn't go here but this and the related programs are what I'm talking about.
No idea what the adult version is like. My mom said her roommate lied in bed all day and occasionally wept, I said they could have just left her home for that.
John Doe 08/17/15 (Mon) 09:05:35 5e2b80 No. 10615
some qt girls that deal with depression, some crazy dudes, alot of sexual harassment from fellow dudes, beds are practically cement, staff doesnt give a shit about you as long as you're not sneaking around the place
John Doe 08/17/15 (Mon) 14:36:46 23ec02 No. 10618
Parents sent me to one when i was in my Sophomore year of highschool, as a result of nearly beating a kid to death with a baseball bat.
I personally think it was entirely justified, he kept talking about raping my little sister, even if he was just joking, i had told him many times before to stop saying that shit.
So while sitting in my garage one day, he sees my sister walk past and says "im gonna rape the fuck out her one day". So i grabbed a bat and smacked him upside the head with it, then all over him while he was on the ground. He has some pretty bad scars and some brain damage now.
So hey throw me into a psych ward, where i got to talk with other violent people who all assured me that my actions were justified.
Really just a massive waste of insurance money.
John Doe 08/17/15 (Mon) 15:15:37 a18a9a No. 10619
Three times for suicidal ideation. They helped a bit I suppose, but Im like a junkie that relapses. There's a reason Im on this board.
John Doe 08/17/15 (Mon) 15:27:46 1933b3 No. 10620
Any tips to avoid the psych ward? How did you guys mostly get in? Parents rat you out?
John Doe 08/17/15 (Mon) 19:21:21 136016 No. 10623
>>10618
>He has some pretty bad scars and some brain damage now.
My justice boner has lasted longer than 4 hours. brb doctor
John Doe 08/18/15 (Tue) 23:12:45 4d01d5 No. 10666
>>3381
man, wouldn't it be ironic to goto a therapist because you are suicidal, and then die in group therapy ?
John Doe 08/19/15 (Wed) 00:30:04 4d01d5 No. 10669
>>5888
dude, if he did that with a lot of patients he was probably drunk most the time
John Doe 08/19/15 (Wed) 21:38:32 64f6fd No. 10692
>>10620
Told my psych how I was feeling. Really, the only way to avoid it, is to not be honest. Once the decide you should be admitted, there's not much you can do to escape it
John Doe 08/20/15 (Thu) 00:06:10 990fa5 No. 10700
>>10692
during age 17 - 19, i went through that depressed/edgy/angst phase and got asked to go to a ward on by 3 people.
>the fat happy guy named bob who you could tell visits the beach and listen to stuff like jimmy buffet.
>the indian guy with /that/ tech helping accent that was apart of a ward but just gave out pills.
>that lady who comes when ye go to the hospital with a clipboard but you know she sucks off someone at work.
but recently;
>parents send me to female jew psychiatrist for not living a 'normal' lifestyle
>bullshit my way through 4 sessions
>"Well Anon, I don't really know why you're here. You seem like a well adjusted guy."
>'IF I have a problemo or anything, Is there anyway I COULD contact you?'
>She gives me her card
>'I will call you instead of you calling me. :)'
>Walk out of building and toss card in dumpster
Same thing with female jew doctor that wanted me to take prozac mixed with merilax then go to therapy to work on my back because I was not walking like 'normal' people. I told her to give me her card. I tossed card in outside dumpster.
John Doe 08/20/15 (Thu) 16:51:39 4d159a No. 10718
I was admitted to one after seeking "help" from a counselor in my university in 2012: I was stressed, my gf dumped me, I was working a dead-end job, and came to the conclusion that I can never change the world and live to my ideals; basically I was incredibly jaded. My mistake was admitting to being suicidal instead of no longer being able to give a fuck. As I spoke with the shrink, I spoke with a verbose manner and gave her a picture of the mental anguish I had, "yeah, right now I wouldn't mind if a bus ran me over." She grew incredibly worried and persuaded me to be institutionalized. I refused, assuring her I was fine, but after phoning over her supervisor, two cops barged in the room and handcuffed me.
"Hey man, what's this about? I'm really not a threat."
"Standard procedures. We really just have to."
They took me over to the university's ER. I was put in their psychiatric ward for a night, which involved me just talking about music with some hipster chicks admitted for eating disorders. It was alright, we had our own private rooms and shit. They said that I would be staying here three days maximum.
The next day, the university called me, saying that because I didn't purchase their overpriced insurance and was under my parents' plan, I would be moved to a more appropriate ward for rehabilitation. They strapped me into a straightjacket and gurney, even though I was capable of walking, and used an ambulance to haul me to a psychiatric hospital 40 minutes away in the government-housing suburban part of town. Compared to the uni ward, the quality of the facility nose-dived, and felt exactly like a prison with Big Brother-type nurses and psychiatrists that really don't give a shit. They force medication on you, and refusal to comply will have your stay lengthened.
The patients there were legitimately insane compared to me: in it were drug addicts, people who suffered from frequent hallucinations, "I'm gonna murder you in your sleep," psychos, and seniors with violent PTSD. I hated every second I was there, and felt as if I was going to get hurt. I barely slept because of this, and I had to be put on Ambien the entire time to have some shred of sanity.
I was originally going to be facilitated for 3 days. When that time elapsed, the shrink decided to keep me for an additional 4 days under the reasoning of, "needs more observation for better diagnosis." The shrink was only in the ward for 2 hours a day, attending to over 40 patients, mind you. On the seventh day, same shit happened, this time extended to 14 days. I wasn't alone in this shit: I conversed with other patients and found out this trick was common. The only logical conclusion behind this was that they had been forcefully detaining us to milk insurance money. On the 14th day, I was set free, along with 20 other patients. This was in commiefornia, so I had my gun rights stripped FOR LIFE: barring me entry into any police force, military, or even a shooting range. Guns were one of my few hobbies that I became passionate about, and it was stripped from me because of some kike policy.
When I got my bill in the mail, I owed over $50,000 due to the ambulance and forced extension.
tl;dr
>seek help from shrink because I thought it'll do me good
>get sent to coontown psych ward
>get fucked by insurance-milking
>lose gun rights in the process
>end up never trusting psychs again after learning about the medical-industrial complex firsthand
If I ever find myself in a dark spot again, I'll be sure to commit suicide correctly. I would rather be comatose than end up in one of those hellholes again.
John Doe 08/23/15 (Sun) 14:34:36 03feb2 No. 10799
Currently in one. UK, on Section 2, admitted under Section 136 for lacerating my arms and then attacking the police officers that tried to restrain the knife from me. It's not that bad.
John Doe 08/23/15 (Sun) 16:59:04 136016 No. 10800
>>10799
And you get INTERNET? You lucky whore.
John Doe 08/26/15 (Wed) 19:03:04 03feb2 No. 10854
>>10800
Priory hospital bitch. Got some 5 star shit.
John Doe 08/27/15 (Thu) 10:05:22 136016 No. 10863
>>10854
Might as well live it up while you're living.
John Doe 08/27/15 (Thu) 11:53:19 6a72e3 No. 10864
>>10718
I hope you haven't paid a dollar of that.
Seriously, people need to learn there is no help, nobody is coming to save you.
Either kill yourself or stfu and hide it. Those are the 2 choices.
John Doe 08/27/15 (Thu) 21:06:36 bd0fae No. 10872
>>3335
I hate psychiatrists. Aka psychs that can perscribe meds. When meds are in the picture, its less about psychology and more about how much medication can you shove down someones throat
The last one I went to put me on meds when I was a teen in highschool.
Made me anorexic, gave me insomnia, really vivid nightmares, and I couldn't say anything on my mind cause he would write it down and send it to the school I went to (I'm not kidding).
My school had required me to go cause they thought I was going to legit kill someone (when in reality all I wanted to do was kill myself)
I go to a psych now again. Been with him for 2 years. I've heard a-lot of bad experiences people have with psychs. But I like the guy I go to. On a professional level and on a personal level.
He's an older guy. In his 60s, but a normal one, not like the snot faced jew in >>3332
Casual as well, dresses in t-shirts and shorts.
He works out of his house (which is fucking huge and actually really peaceful, has a waterfall in the back and deer roam around it a-lot with a nice walkway and a separate floor which leads to his lobby/office with an outside staircase)
I feel extremely comfortable around him. I've confessed a-lot of shit I could literally never tell anyone. None of it has left his office. And I didn't feel uncomfortable talking about it. And I've said some dark shit. More than just my suicide attempts.
He's kind of on my wavelength.
Then again we've been through the same shit
abuse parents, awful time in schools, shitty family.
When I talk to him, I feel like I'm talking to a person. Not to a doctor, or a psych, or someone who'll judge me, just another person
I would recommend him to anyone who wants to talk to someone without feeling too organized or industrial, or some money scheme (cause he's also inexpensive)
Infact, its almost a family affair, seeing as my sister goes and my mom and grandma both call him and ask him about me, in which he covers up like 99% of the actual shit I say and replaces it with blanket statements.
John Phillips in Shelton, CT if anyone around here is in need of a person to talk to.
As with mental hospitals, back when I was middle school I was extremely close to getting sent to one, luckily though I found a way to act normal for the time I would be surveyed (when paraprofessionals would come into the class to inspect me and what I wrote on papers and such), so I was able to stay at home.
It did lead to a-lot of suspensions though, which I'm nowhere near proud out, and eventually just lead to my dropping out of the school system entirely.
John Doe 09/07/15 (Mon) 04:38:28 e8c1b0 No. 11156
I asked a 50 year old about his time in a mental ward in which he spent 3 months in back in the 80s.
He said it was like a warehouse where the only thing he had to do was eat, probably because they probably wouldn't let him do anything else. They kept him at the psych ward as long as his parents insurance helped out, and they diagnosed him with seizures and them let him out in the end, exactly at the time the insurance ran out, even though he didn't have seizures. He talked to someone who had worked there and that apparentelly was the easiest way to get people out when they couldn't pay. At one point he planned to get out by locking himself in his room for 5 days to get on suicide watch (idk how the fuck that would get him out but ok). They tried to treat his depression and "treat" his homosexuality and "seizures". He was sent there for running away when he was young.
Doesn't seem very different from todays mental institutions from the way he described.
John Doe 09/09/15 (Wed) 04:23:47 5ac251 No. 11177
>>11156
There should be no institutions. It is a fate much worse than death to live without a sound mind.
There is no cure. If you are not capable of living a decent, independent life then you should be mercy killed. Institutions and medication does not work. Death solves the problem.
John Doe 09/09/15 (Wed) 08:50:23 b2b39d No. 11180
I have been there 3 times, it is fucking weird. A majority of the people there are on detox from drugs, I didn't really talk to anyone. I tried to participate in the group therapy and stuff, but I don't really think any of that helped me, just was a thing to do to pass the time. I still feel terrible, 2pussy obviously, to actually do something about it, I really think those places are bullshit; I never had actual help, I was just confined until they said I played pretend enough to leave.
John Doe 09/09/15 (Wed) 17:00:53 356388 No. 11181
god damn, I was going to try and get some help but fuck. I guess that sneaking suspicion that there isn't any help is true. there is no getting better is there? fuck, i'm glad that this board exists though. I can be honest for once in my fucking life atleast.
John Doe 09/09/15 (Wed) 18:41:58 3444d4 No. 11184
A friend, who the rest of the time was supportive of it, had ratted me out one night without telling me. My phone blows up with someone mass calling, which back then wasn't really a common thing to do, so I picked it up and bam, 911 operator.
Police came to my door, made me lift my shirt and show them my arms. Some lady drove me the the psych ward. Slept in a cot in an empty room, wouldn't let me leave. The only interaction I had with other patients was when I heard some young kids with ADHD in the room next to me playing. Someone had to be with me when I peed. My mother came in to yell at me and tell me she was going to kill me when I got home. Some therapist came in to talk to me, nothing good came of it. She then told all of the information I gave to her, to my mother (i could hear them through the walls). In the morning they gave a big breakfast but I didn't want to eat because my mother was giving me the death stare. I had a meeting with 5 doctors all at the same time, with one bug eyed little fuck staring at me the whole time, I swore he never blinked. Pretty much just have to tell them I want to go to college and get a job, and they were OK with that. They told me that they would send a social worker to check on me in 2 days, but my mother stole me out of there more than 24 hours early and didn't have my information on record or some shit, because they never showed up. She was literally able to just grab my arm and rush me through the doors while I was trying to fight against it and yelled for help. My mother then proceeded to drive me home and beat the shit out of me, and I didn't wake up until my brother got home, nudged me from the dining room table and asked if I was still going to go to school. All I remembered was she slammed my head into the table quiet a few times, and made me sit up straight while she hit me with something from the kitchen.
That fucking social worker never came to check on me. At least my mother showed some restraint to not kill me.
John Doe 09/09/15 (Wed) 19:31:33 5ac251 No. 11185
>>11184
jesus fuck, how old were you and where is your mother now? She needs locking up.
John Doe 09/09/15 (Wed) 19:49:05 3444d4 No. 11187
>>11185
I think I was about 13 at the time. I had moved out of there but the police came, arrested me, and brought me back. I was 18 when I moved out, I still have no clue how that was legal, but they forced me to go back home. Escorted me, even. Maybe because of my mental record of going to a psych ward for a couple hours. But she keeps me here with guilt and threats to call the cops if I move again, even though she says she hates my guts. My father has died a long time ago, and can't really keep her in check. I'm 20 now.
John Doe 09/10/15 (Thu) 14:05:25 cd0c8e No. 11196
>>11187
Give her a taste of her own medicine. Next time you guys have an argument, give her a black eye.
You're a grown man, anon. Don't let her keep you under her thumb like that.
John Doe 09/10/15 (Thu) 20:22:48 a4a6cc No. 11198
>>11196 yeah but he would definitely get locked up for that shit. I say wait till she passes out and bounce. Take anything valuable and fence it then bounce to on of the dakoda's and bust your ass on an oil field. Quick money, incredibly unsafe and they're so desperate for labor you can find work pretty quick. Also, lots of hookers and speed.
John Doe 09/11/15 (Fri) 00:41:48 30b9b0 No. 11199
>>11187
What the fuck? Why the fuck did they make you go back? This entire story is infuriating.i