Have you ever been sent to one? Im asking because a good friend of mine was forcefuly sent to one and he still hasnt got ou even tho months has passed. How was it? Was the food good? What did you had for breakfast? For how long did you stay there? Did the staff treated you nicely? Did you end up meeting or befriending someone intersting that made your stay more berable? What drugs did they give you there? Was the infrastructure good?
>>42487803Voluntarily for depression I went to the kind that was exclusively for minors when I was 15. I was shocked at how many kids there were between 6 and 10, and most of them got admitted by their mom's as punishment for simple things (talking back, not doing chores, etc.). It was kind of revolting to know that parents were using a psych ward in lieu of standard at home discipline.There was also this kid who was allergic to peanuts. And I watch them, give him peanut butter, and I had to tell the nurse to check his chart.This was in 2008 in Florida
>>42487818I may be a sad sack of shit, but at least I didn’t voluntarily enter myself into a psych ward for depression at age 15
>>42487803I was sent to one after a manic episode I had after spending the entire day drinking and smoking weed with my friends from college. My girlfriend was there to. I envited my best friend to come along but he only arrived like 20:00pm, our encounter started like 1:00pm lol, so I was already deep in psychosis when he showed up. I remember wanting to greet him with a taser but my girlfriend didnt allow it lol. H e showed and was clearly uncofortable with the way I was acting. I started asking about a mushroom trip he had and how was seeing all that shite while sober>continue
>>42487849He ementioned how dilated my pupils were and how I was talking nonesenses with anything, I then reveled to him I was on something called psychosis. He was acting very calm and serene but I could see in his eyes and mind he was uneasy. I know that because he started rolling tabaccos for us to smoke instead of joints. To make matters wose for him (not me I was having a blast), there was another guy in there in psychosis. He was this other friend of mine who is like 6'3 and very fat and large. He wouldnt stop saying how he was arrested for trying to murder a guy not long ago, this made my friend even more uneasy, but he kept his composture, he good at that. Anyway, my girlfriend and some other friends of mine convinced me to go with them to a hospital and>Continue
>>42487891>>42487891I arrived there, at this point my best friend wasnt with me anymore (I never seen him again after this incident). I was very violent at that point so they needed 3 guys to tackle me to the gound (Im 5'8). They drugged me and I slept for 12 hours straight. I spent around 21 days in there. I ate like a king and was allowed to keep my traing, they also allowed you to smoke in there and my mom brought cigs to me. They started giving me weaker drugs but they were still strong asf, to the point I would drill from my mouth and buy a batman costume on amazon. I still dont remember how/when I did it. I also kept telling doctors my family invented the radio and then would demand them to give me milk. They fed me rivotril for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I stayed there over 21 days and couldnt go back to college after that. I miss my bff, hope I can see him again this year
>>42487803I have been four times, two times sectioned, two times voluntarily. It was interesting, sometimes good, sometimes bad, the voluntary stays were much better and I had much more freedom. Breakfast varied, it was often great though, not everybody liked it, but I personally really enjoyed it. We'd get full cooked breakfasts where we could eat as much or as little as we liked. My first two stays were both 28 days, my third stay was 7 days, my fourth was 14 days. Some staff were lovely and really tried to help, others were straight up evil and playing head games with patients. I've made a few friends out of there, some really good, some ended up demonstrating why they were in that place in the first place and I had to cut them off. They gave me lots of drugs, some made me hallucinate like I was acid and I don't know what they were. The ones I know of were aripiprazole, olanzipine and carbamazempine. Each has its benefits, but the drawbacks are real. Aripiprazole made it so I couldn't sleep and couldn't stop moving, carbamazepine made me more mellow than I've ever been but I would sleep for 20 hours straight. Olanzipine is a bit better, but it's made me gain weight. I hope your friend gets out soon, I couldn't imagine doing more than a month.
Only once. I am very lucky and the pills work really well so I only really come to /x/ to reflect. I was sent there forcefully because I got aggressive because I thought my family had been body snatched by hostile aliens. It's all a laugh now but it felt 100% real to me. Anyway, it was pretty shitty but way better than what movies and stuff make it out to be. The food was dogshit aramark slop but I was hungry enough on my antipsychotics not to care. I can't remember any of the time frames, I was so crazy I was in a fugue state and time just sort of disappears (this is called time blindnesss). The nurses were the best. They were super super nice and wold dispense of pills pretty freely because I was so distressed. They tried to make things nice and fun even though it sucks ass to basically "wake up" from madness and realize that everything you saw wasn't real and you were actually hurting the people you love and yourself. There was lots of coloring. Infrastructure was a sore spot for sure. There was one method of exercise- a broken exercise bike. I was suffering from extreme akasthesia and that was basically torture, so I just walked laps up and down the ward over and over.I can't imagine how underfunded they are now in the US. Everything about healthcare I here is a million times worse, but nurses are probably still amazing hopefully.
>>42488170I’m gonna check into a psych word so a hot nurse just can suck my cock
>>42487803Sometimes they're fine. But last time I went they gave me ETC. I now have about 12 years of missing memory. If I see the doctor who did this I will try to kill her.
>>42487803I worked in one for about 4 years and the main thing I learnt is that the majority of the patients were almost interchangeable. More so than the general population. I think it's the irony that, so many of the patients considered themselves totally alone, or isolated by their uniqueness, when in fact they were more copy + paste than a Taylor Swift audience. It just always stuck with me.
>>42488685You could be an MK Ultra subject.
>>42488685>I now have about 12 years of missing memory.That’s what they want you to think
>>42487803Failed suicide attempt in my early '20s. They serve prison food and either the doctors are totally incompetent, or else the whole experience is calculated to worsen whatever condition sent you there. I met the psychiatrist maybe twice, we only chatted about Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy, and I left after one week of reading books and avoiding the other patients as much as possible. My takeaway was to never seek professional help under any circumstances. There may be some people who need to be institutionalized but in my case it was entirely pointless. I figured out how retarded I was being on my own.
>>42487803I spent 10 days in one. They're garbage. You just shuffle around looking at the clock, there's barely anything to do. The treatment boils down to just giving people pills. I saw the psychiatrist twice and all he did was ask me how I was feeling. I was given antipsychotics and had my first and only sleep paralysis experience there, saw a shadow figure at the foot of my bed one night. Stopped taking those meds as soon as I left the place.
Here in the UK they used to be mixed with drug addicts and mental patients and the drug addicts used to bully us mental patients. Nowadays, they're not so bad but the situations I have been in them I've been extremely suicidal, hearing voices, penniless and fighting the govt and staff who were just taking the piss, moving me around and taking keys to my door and stuff. It's a real mixed bag. I have a good poker face and the govt kick me out of them occasionally.
>>42488724dont you find that most everyone is the same? most are patterns, most ppl are the same. in or out of psych wards. curious.
>>42488800Glad you woke up, anon.
I haven’t been in a psych ward but I have been through special ed if you wanna hear about that
>>42487803A lady I knew got kidnapped by one and was there for 6 months cuz her insurance covered it that much. A lot of these places do this, we noticed it while there, and many of us planned to stay later after our insurance was up to put the cost on the hospital when we realized. They just keep people as long as their insurance will cover it for profit. The old lady had amazing insurance so she got kept for 6 months. She was normal and sane.
>>42487803I used to work on a psychiatric ward. One of the perks of the job was fucking the inpatients. They’d cycle through every few weeks and nobody would believe them. Men. Women. Any hole is a goal, am I right?
>>42489846please share tales
>>42487803I went to a very nice one in a hospital attached to a medical school. Psychosis and hearing voices, really sucked. It would have been really enjoyable had I not been tormented the whole time. I met a lot of interesting people dealing with their own issues, had insightful convos, and was relentlessly bullied by the voice in my head to talk to people about jesus or else. Of course now I realize the little voice…big voice, was very paranormal. But yeah, I went to a nice one, lovely people even if I think medication ain’t the way to go. We did little calming sessions like coloring and foot baths and I got an Ipad to watch some disney stuff in my down time and got some outdoor time. I’ll admit I was in one of the nicer ones, Some of the other patients told me about their experiences in the staying housed and stuff and man that did not sound pleasant.
>>42490858>now I realize the little voice…big voice, was very paranormalYou need to go back.
>>42490858Are you taking any meds? Did the voices stop?
>be me in the psych ward, sitting in the common room trying to draw with the dogshit useless suicide-proof "pencils" they have>haggard twitchy woman who paced the halls incessantly and always looked like her head was about to explode comes up to me>hands me a box of crayons and says "you should use these instead, there much better. Theres one REALLY special crayon in there too, its REALLY good." and shuffles away>I open it and among the crayons theres a smashed up chocolate chip cookie and a wad of money totaling about 30 dollars in thereI still dont know what she meant by this, idk if she was trying to solicit me or what. She also had to have snuck the money in because we werent allowed to have any inside at all, and from all i heard she was there basically permanently so idk how she got it or why she gave it to me. Before you ask no she was not hot at all.I didnt want to get her in trouble for sneaking in money or confront her and have some weird or insane encounter so I just kept the money and bought a pizza with it when I got out which I still feel kind of bad about
I volunteer there sometimes
>>42487803it rocks if you believe you are crazy for fun
>>42490154I first entered special education in 2nd grade. Where I went the special education system was separated in two: you had the 'life skills' section, which was for intellectual disabilities, and the 'social learning center' which was for non-intellectually disabled kids who couldn't fit in normal classrooms. Officially SLCs are still for disabilities, but I wasn't really told this and came to the conclusion that it was some sort of punishment or discipline. Which honestly might be more accurate to how they work in practice than their official reasoning. I remember in 6th grade, probably earlier and multiple times as well, hearing from one of the teachers about how special education is just for kids that need extra help and thinking that I didn't need help, I needed to not be sent to school.I was sent to special education because in first grade I kept acting out. I did not like school and I hated being forced to go there. I knew that getting in trouble could get you sent home, and I discovered that randomly leaving the classroom and refusing to leave places with the teacher were reliable ways to get in the appropriate amount of trouble. It got to the point that I was allowed to leave earlier and I spent most of my time with a handler. They did tests on me to try to figure out why I was acting out, I distinctly remember performing well on a hearing test. The headphones were beige and brown, and the test took place in a separate temporary building on school grounds. I understand that experience is common among GATE/TAG kids, and I would enter TAG 2 years later in 3rd grade, though I am somewhat skeptical of the claims that these programs have secret paranormal agendas. The adults in my life kept trying to figure out why I was resisting school, I remember reading a book on divorce because they thought my parent's divorce a few years ago might've been causing my behavior, but to me it was plainly obvious: I just didn't want to go to school.
>>42487803i went when I was a teenager and was in and out for some years.Enjoyed the routine. Food is good. You don’t wanna get out in isolation or injected. The injection is the worst, if not compliant restraint by up to 6 staff and injected in the ass with PRN then put in isolation. Room is nice. Lots of alarms and banging. More boring than you would expect sometimes. Made some friends I still speak to as an adult I try my best to help them i feel almost indebted. Most never get better and watching the decline is terrible. Staff and other patients can almost become some sort of sick temporary family if you stay long enough. Overall not bad entirely depends on country. Feel free to ask more questions if you need.From England
>>42492802Where did you even hide the money?
>>42493377>for some years.Nani, wtf? YEARS?? What the hell I thought it was only possible to be kept in these places for some months at max. Would you mind to share what drove you to spend years in? Sorry this happened to you man, world is fucked
>>42493377Also, can you tell me what meals they served you for breakfast, lunch and dinner? I really like food (Im not fat and dont suffer from any food addiction I just REALLY apreciate good food) I couldnt be able to endure spending years in a place if the food was bad, that would actually drive me insane Im glad it was good. Also, if you dont mind:>How was your routine? >Did you get visited constantly by any friends or family?>Did they give you rivotril or other medications 24/7?>Did they force you to take meds that would make you hungry on purpose so you would gain weight and your family would be tricked in beliving you were being well treated? (happened to a friend of mine)>Which pacient made you uneasy the most?>Which one did you like the most?>Which staff member did you like the most?>Which staff member you disliked the most?>Which activities and distractions were allowed in there? >Was the outisde/green area nice? >Did the staff knew how to properly treat and act on different patients based on the level of mental struggles they faced ? Like a chronic schizophrenic having a different treatment, routine or protocol from a more light one, etc >Did you ever saw someone attempting to escape? What was the consequence?
>>42494144They didnt search us or anything past being initially admitted so I just kept it ib my pockets. Thanks to her for paying for a delicious pizza that I greatly enjoyed alongside my freedom after being forced to eat their shitty food.
>>42487803I was in the hospital for two weeks when I was 19. I was admitted voluntarily but due to the nature of episode (schizophrenia+homicidal ideation) if I left they would have called the police to bring me back. The staff were really nice, the food was pretty good and the facilities were decent. This was in a hospital that was just newly built a few years before. They gave me shots of clopixol. You're supposed to have a 200mg injection every two weeks but they gave me two 400mg injections within two weeks. I was knocked the fuck out. Basically all i did was eat, sleep and listen to music. I came close to another hospital stay twice this year already. I'm 23 now and my illness has gotten worse over the years but I've managed to avoid going back to the hospital. Around halloween though is a difficult time for me so I'm concerned about how that will go this year.Also one of my friends was recently admitted to a public hospital in Chile. Any chilean anons know what the reputation of psych hospitals is like there? I've heard they're not great
>>42494333>Around halloween though is a difficult time for meWhy? You also mention your condition got worse... Im sotty anon, is a very tough condition, are you taking any medication? Do they work?
>>42494387>Why?I had my first psychotic episode when I was 16 around Halloween and a lot of the imagery (horror movies, cults, evil spirits) fed into my psychosis so when it's halloween time every year I get a lot of triggers that can cause me to fall into psychosis. >are you taking any medication? Do they work?I was recently put on zyprexa after my last psychotic episode a few months ago. I take 10mgs of it and it's actually a really good medication for me. I still get symptoms most days but the key is to keep taking the medication. My problem has always been I go through a stressful experience which causes breakthrough symptoms which can in turn cause me to stop taking the medication and then things go bad fast. I keep having these kind of breakdowns and I've been having them for years. It's just kind of a revolving door. Some days are symptom free but overtime I've definitely been getting worse
>>42487803the whole world is a psych ward. they lock you in special prisons when you commit invisible crimes.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bPcgoaZjsu8&pp=0gcJCSgLAYcqIYzv&ra=m
>>42494423sorry to hear that friend. Idk if might help but try to remember the good side of halloween. The candies and chocolates, the people coming togheter to peel pumpkings, the children going out to eat candies and have fun. Also, you mentioned symptoms, does the medication helps with the positive ones? Voices, seeing things that arent there, paranoia, etc. I heard this med causes weight gain, I hope it didnt affecte you that much. A lot of people say that taking meds is easy, but they also bring a lot of bad side effects :(
Its good to read responses to threads like this. You think you're weird or crazy but def still functional and then read some insane posts like these- alot of your parents, schools, and childhoods must have sucked on such an epic level. Society fails the hardest on they understand the least
I've been admitted four or five times. Longest stay was a week, shortest was 24 hours. During one of them a nurse gave me a hand massage that felt nearly orgasmic. During my first stay there was a tweaker who drilled a hole in his own skull as a fashion statement. My stepbrother dubbed him Drillbit Taylor. Do all the groups and activities, it makes the time fly.
>>42494508Also in one of my stays I met a kid who said his father was a millionaire who groomed him to take over the family business via rapes and beatings. This guy now had 31 personalities, some of them demonic.
>>42494454I don't hear the voices so much on medication but I do sometimes have delusional thoughts or experience paranoia. Zyprexa has caused me a bit of weight gain but I was already sort of heavy (have been since I first started taking meds) so it's not caused to much of a drastic change. Zyprexa sometimes causes my hands to shake and it has lowered my libido but it's worth it to keep the psychosis at bay
>>42494522Also the food is pretty decent, especially breakfast. If you're hungry after hours they'll bring you a pretty tasty (if somewhat dry) sandwich. And if you're having trouble sleeping they'll just give you a pill no questions asked.
