I just got out of the psych ward

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24 Sep 2016, 6:34 pm

dcj123 wrote:

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justkillingtime wrote:

how was the food?

The food was good it was kind of basic but good I am just glad to be home

Do they allow you internet access?

lol

No, they take everything away, including clothes in some psych wards. You get a scrubs and a notebook if you lucky. There is no TV or anything else, you wake up, you eat and your in therapy all day. Some are better, some are worse. I have been in some where I'd rather be in jail and I have been in some that are better then home. It largely depends on the group, one time I was in a bad one but the people made it better. They were chill and we played games with what little we had until staff took that away too.

That doesn't sound like a psych ward. That sounds like prison with more politically correct BS. But, at least we all know now to avoid the psych wards if given the choice, not that asylums were ever very friendly to our kind to begin with.

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24 Sep 2016, 7:03 pm

Ven_ wrote:

dcj123 wrote:

Pieplup wrote:

Gacrsgrant wrote:

justkillingtime wrote:

how was the food?

The food was good it was kind of basic but good I am just glad to be home

Do they allow you internet access?

Well I said it depends,

There is one I like here, with a TV and stuff

Then there is the state hospital

I'd take jail over the state hosptal

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25 Sep 2016, 3:51 pm

dcj123 wrote:

Pieplup wrote:

Gacrsgrant wrote:

justkillingtime wrote:

how was the food?

The food was good it was kind of basic but good I am just glad to be home

Do they allow you internet access?

Wow. Inmates have it way better. Even though games and TV or Internet are commonly helpful in the lives of the disabled (often being the only connection to the world around them) it is taken away?! Sounds like torture.

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25 Sep 2016, 4:02 pm

The_Dark_Citadel wrote:

dcj123 wrote:

Pieplup wrote:

Gacrsgrant wrote:

justkillingtime wrote:

how was the food?

The food was good it was kind of basic but good I am just glad to be home

Do they allow you internet access?

It is I had a tv behind glass but no internet access as they told me you are there to get better not to surf the internet it stank and I am just glad to be home

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25 Sep 2016, 4:27 pm

Gacrsgrant wrote:

The_Dark_Citadel wrote:

dcj123 wrote:

No, they take everything away, including clothes in some psych wards. You get a scrubs and a notebook if you lucky. There is no TV or anything else, you wake up, you eat and your in therapy all day. Some are better, some are worse. I have been in some where I'd rather be in jail and I have been in some that are better then home. It largely depends on the group, one time I was in a bad one but the people made it better. They were chill and we played games with what little we had until staff took that away too.

It is I had a tv behind glass but no intent access as they told me you are there to get better not to surf the internet it stank and I am just glad to be home

Out-patient therapy techniques recommend that people communicate with the outside world and do what makes them happier, within a balanced life anyway. Why does the story change once you're admitted? I guess they take away any objects, like cell phones, that someone might throw, break, ETC?

How do they deal with people's needs for social and intellectual activities that aid recovery? Or laughter or music or other basic human pleasures that help people cope better? Do they really put people in therapy until they collapse from exhaustion?

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25 Sep 2016, 5:09 pm

DataB4 wrote:

Gacrsgrant wrote:

The_Dark_Citadel wrote:

dcj123 wrote:

It is I had a tv behind glass but no intent access as they told me you are there to get better not to surf the internet it stank and I am just glad to be home

No it is not just therapy all day it is over activideys to like art, music ,movies,relaxing time,school and then there is therapy it is restrictive freedom as the doctor told me

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25 Sep 2016, 5:13 pm

Did you go voluntarily and if not who compelled you to go, and how?

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25 Sep 2016, 5:49 pm

Some psych wards are medival dungeons where their treatment approach is to punish you/torture you out of your mental health crisis by subjecting to you abyssmal conditions that you wouldn't even think to keep your dog in. Those places seek to break you into telling them whatever they want to hear so that you can leave and they can be absolved of all liability once you leave and something happens to you. This strategy also allows them to save money instead of actually having to pay to treat/help you and have a bed for you. The approach also seeks to use the same approach the criminal justice system does, so that you learn what the consquences to prevent you from ever dare thinking about feeling suicidal or have a mental health crisis again in the future.

Other psychwards actually are humane and diginifying. These psychwards take a radical and revoluntary approach to mental health and treat their patients as human beings worthy of respect instead of like prisoners there to be punished. Their programs and environments are designed with actual recovery in mind.

Which kind of psych ward you end up is really down to luck of the draw, with a very similar outcome to pulling a slot machine lever in a casino.

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25 Sep 2016, 6:15 pm

racheypie666 wrote:

Did you go voluntarily and if not who compelled you to go, and how?

I did not go in voluntarily I was placed from my school for lashing out pretty bad at a student that did not do anything to me

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25 Sep 2016, 6:17 pm

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Could you walk out at any time, or would they have physically stopped you?

No I could not I had to wait intill the doctors said I was no longer a danger and then I could be let out and it was a locked ward so they would have stoped me if I would have left or tryed to at least

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25 Sep 2016, 6:18 pm

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Mine was the humble and they treated me like a human

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25 Sep 2016, 8:57 pm

I've seen Human Rights abuses in NHS psychiatric wards. I've been in a medium secure unit before as well, that was a cesspit. However my last admission was actually a helpful experience, as the hospital was told improve your staff or we're closing you down. So they went through a massive reformation before I was last admitted. But in the past I would end up having extreme meltdowns, getting covered in my own blood and being restrained by five nurses, and then being forcibly medicated. Yet most of the time the staff or the patients were provoking me.

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25 Sep 2016, 10:22 pm

Was the therapy of any help or substance? Or was it more rote?

Were the other patients annoying/dangerous or did you get to relax?

Thanks for being open to some genuine questions. Any one of us could be there.

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25 Sep 2016, 10:25 pm

Gacrsgrant wrote:

Hi
I have not been on here in a while because I have been in the psych ward because of me lashing out at a friend so bad that I had to be admitted for a week so I am happy to be back and you may ask anything about my stay
Thanks
Grant

Is your friend ok?

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26 Sep 2016, 10:41 am

Raleigh wrote:

Gacrsgrant wrote:

Is your friend ok?

My friend is ok just had a few choice words and some behavior that landed me in the pysch ward

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26 Sep 2016, 10:43 am

Nine7752 wrote:

The therapy was good it really helped me it was conagitive behavior therapy
I did get to relax some but some people where annoying
It's my pleasure about the Questions

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