What a Psychiatric Hospital is Like

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I'm I the UK, here it's called being sectioned, your experience is so much the same, injection of benzo against will pinned to the bed by 4 persons. No follow up support, just horrible.

I’ve never been in a mental hospital, but i suspect anxiety, and i geniunly feel Like i need help. Im a minor, and i have no idea how to tell my parents about this. Im very sure i dont have schizophroneia but i sometimes hear voices, tho they’re unclear. I am open to any help if someone has tips. I feel very sorry for everyone who has been in a mental hospital, it must be a terrible experience.

Perfect example of not judging a book by its cover.

Im sorry you experienced that patients should be treated with love and care especially during stressful times like wanting to commit suicide

My experience in a ward was a very scary thing the first day but i realized that I needed to go because of my mental health. I had a group of people that made my stay better. I became friends with some of them and now we all give support to each one of us because we feel that we need that support to carry on and make things better.

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How are the padded rooms and straight jackets?

Back when I was in the army, I was in the advanced individual training or also known as AIT and I admitted myself to the military hospital's psych ward, because I was contemplating suicide, and to be honest, my experience is very different from yours, maybe it's just how it works compared to the normal civilian ones, but I actually somewhat enjoyed being in the psych ward, it was much more peaceful and less eventful for me. When I admitted myself, I waited in a, I think it was an ICU room. I'm not sure though, but I waited there for like an hour until they got a psychiatrist to come talk to me after that, they made me strip down out of all my clothes and get into the a hospital gown, and then they took me to the psych Ward and in the psych ward, like they had the electronically locked door from when I could tell, and when I went through it, they had me talk to another psychiatrist, and they had to take a bunch of my vitals and stuff like that, then they explained to me how it was going to work. They showed me to a small room, each room had its own shower, bathroom or whatever, but it was designed to where you couldn't hurt yourself in it. The beds were plastic molds from the looks of it, and they had. Very simple bedding, I know there wasn't much in the way of furniture, whatever in the room so you can hurt hurt yourself and the first night, I mean, it was a fairly long night, I was just trying to kind of get used to it over time, over a week or so, I slowly got better. during the days we have like classes where we talk about how to grow some coping skills, find stuff that we can do to improve our mood and improve our thoughts, and every day in there we talked to the psychiatrist same and they would question questions like, how are you doing today? And how you feel, did you think about hurting yourself again last night, stuff like that? Eventually they put me on Buspirin/buspar, which is an anxiety, medicine, and over about the course of a week or so, I was able to calm my mind, eventually they found that I was able to leave, and I got discharged from the hospital, and after all that I decide, I wanted to discharge from the military altogether, so they uncharacterized discharged me, and now I'm a civilian again.

Pretty much the same here in Australia. I have been in and out of a few psych hospitals during my lifetime. Luckily haven't been now for several years.
I wish you all the best in your journey.

It seams like so traumatic dear Lauren… on the other hand, what to do with family member who is dangerous to themselves even others… so hard….how old you were when hospitalised… I am checking as my daughter is hospitalized and I want to know how to help her with the experience … she reacted similarly as you darling

I want to live a mental hospital. I am giving up on life

Great explanation

I am sorry this happened. Most of my experiences have been ok. The one I have been to most has a lot of activities throughout the day, from like 9 to 7 you are in groups, eating, with little down time

brave lady sharing her story. There are a lot of people who would never share as much information as this young lady did. I have been in some psych units myself, so I have major respect for someone who can share as much as her

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I have to attest that by personal experience that the spiritual realm is real. For approximately 10 years my home was demonically infested and I was demonically oppressed. They induced paranoia, fear, and intricate illusions. I made the mistake of telling my mother and she then proceeded to call the police as she felt I was hallucinating. The police came and forcibly restrained me to a stretcher and loaded me into an ambulance. I was screaming that they were kidnapping me which prompted the medic to inject me with medication to make me more compliant. The police filled out an affidavit to involuntarily admit me to the psych ward. Where the psychiatrist and staff forced me to take dangerous antipsychotics. The psychiatrist gave me a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia with seizures. I know for a fact that I am not schizophrenic and perfectly in a rational state of mind. I didn’t bother telling the psychiatrist my experience with the demons as I feel he would use that Information to simply confirm his diagnosis. After being confined to the psych ward against my will for a week I was discharged as stable. I refused to take the toxic antipsychotic medication. It’s medication that chemically lobotomizes an individual. Research it and find out for yourself that typical and atypical antipsychotic medication is extremely toxic to the brain. It’s neurodegenerative and thus destroys healthy neurons in the brain. The medication also has severe side effects too such as dystonia, Akathisia, and can even cause male lactation. All these side effects are the result of neuronal death from the antipsychotic medication. I was prescribed Haloperidol which is an extremely potent and powerful antipsychotic medication. It’s a dopamine inhibitor and when I took it it would lower my dopamine levels so badly that I would have severe depression, lack of focus, fatigue, and lack of motivation. After a couple months of taking the Haloperidol I finally stood up for myself and refused to take it anymore. It was seriously negatively effecting me and my overall health and I can’t tolerate it anymore. My mother was the one who pushed me to take the Haloperidol and threatened to kick me out of the house on the streets If I didn’t take it. In fear of losing my stable residence I still remained steadfast and determined to refuse to take the antipsychotic medication. I screamed at her that it was giving me crippling depression and extreme fatigue and that I will not poison myself with that medication any longer. My mother protested and tried guilting me into continuing the medication but I was adamant and blatantly refused. And when I went to my next psychiatrist appointment I confessed to refusing the Haloperidol. She was silent for awhile and seemed annoyed but offered an alternative medication. Vraylar. It was a small capsule medication so to humor my mother I would to pretend to swallow it when I was secretly cheeking it and after walking away I would spit it out. I don’t need medication for a mental illness that I don’t have. I am a very spiritual person and it’s understandable that the demons would choose me to attack. I’ll never forget this quote but it is stated as such “When you talk to God it’s praying but when God talks back its Schizophrenia. Today’s modern society doesn’t believe in the supernatural anymore so scientists and doctors try to give a biological explanation for a persons spiritual experiences; example being mental illness. I feel so trapped and alone with my demonic oppression and I am very careful now Not to mention the demonic presence to my mother. My mother is supposedly a devout religious person but refuses to believe that I am demonically afflicted. She is fearful of me and thus demands that I take medication for my “hallucinations “ It has really resulted in my absolute resentment of my mother.

These voices is so hard
It's hard

I remember being forced to either take a shot or take the pill…they'd r threaten me..I don't like shots so I'd take the pill..I count about 12 hospitalizations in my life..I've bin restrained with leather binds, stuck in seclusion room padded, strap to bed face down for jumping on a couch..I've bin strapped to gurney too where I couldn't move..one time, I knew I could refuse care n tried to walk out..2 nurses plus 2 more staff cornered me. I hit the 2 nurses..n they strapped me to bed for week..no showers allowed or bathroom opportunity..had to use wipes, use bedpan..hands tied to rail…I'm glad I can share this n not be retraumitized by sharing this..but I know I'm not alone when I found u sharing….

Difference between jail and a hospital is, a jail is for people who have done crimes, and the hospital is there to help you become better.