Is the psychiatric hospital in your area any good?

[catbunny]

Mine sucks. I literally trash. I went there once and I fucking hate it. There was a time when I got overdosed, I was 13-14 back then btw. The pills really got me panic and started crying and stalking shit. Instead of trying to calm me down, they fucking scolded me. Like ok wtf? After that, my parents scold me too. lol. But they still brought me to the therapist. THE THERAPIST IS FUCKING SUCKS. They are talking fucking nonsense about i dont even remember. Its like talking a bullshit healing podcast that called your name wrong 15th times. It was so trash thats the first and last time i ever went there or any other place cause gosh. Seeing her every single week will make me want to kill myself more than not. I personally think the system is so trash in my country. Since they still think mental health is not important, and not matter enough. I hate it and they should fucking improve it so I can fucking go there and get a proper treatment and get fucking better and live a fucking life.

 

[FoxSauce]

Yeahbin my area is one floor you cant sit close for some reason even if the person is fine with it.

Bit dirty, theres nothing else to do basically.

Entertainment was looking out a window
Just talks about meds and resilience

The psychiatrist just asked the same bs questions.
And a social worker is really nice and just doing puzzled on paper or cards or whatever

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

The one I went to was a DUMP, holy shit

 

[Forveleth]

There are a couple in my area and the more private ones are nice but expensive. I have heard the one tied to the main area hospital is terrible. Not surprising, really.

 

[Good night]

I was there five years ago, and since then I've only seen emergency psychiatrists. After overdosing on benzodiazepines and without my glasses, I didn't even know who I was for about two weeks. I had some unpleasant moments and some good ones, but I hardly ever left my room, so I didn't interact much with people. Some of the staff are really great, and others not so much. What I miss most is the food there. There are times when I would like to go back, because as they told me, that place is "like a bubble" that allows you to escape from the world. But they put the word "iatrogenesis" in one of my reports, so they won't admit me there again. Oh, yes, they also stole things that were in their custody, probably some worker who was angry with me. That's how it is.

 

[spøgelse]

No. I haven't been sectioned there I only was there every month for a year for... 'diagnostics' but I have family who works in the hospital that is connected to it and there have been several instances of them managing to give refeeding syndrome to people who came in with an eating disorder. Several even almost died. It's a known issue with eating disorders, so I have no clue on how they manage to do it.

Escaping seemingly is easy as sometimes you will see patients just... on the loose cutting themselves in the park by it. The cops don't do anything either.

When I was there as a kid, the basically said "yeah he has ADHD and whatever come back in a year" without any treatment plan. They also refused to diagnose me with dyslexia and another condition I have (they literally put that they didn't evaluate my results because they turned out so bad in my medical report??) leading me to not be able to get treatment. Which because again, my issues were so bad, lead me to being bullied relentlessly by both peers and my parents. I wonder what would have happened if I was treated properly.

I'm getting help at another psychiatrist now who is in another city and it's... whatever. She's significantly better but I'm too old for any treatment that could have been done when I was little.

 

[M3lancholia]

Mine isn't great! No therapy or psychologists but you can colour pics and paint all day if you want Managed to hoard all my meds as they never checked if you swallowed them, there was always someone running around naked and someone else who went into everyone else's rooms and stole stuff!
We could keep our phones though and the food was ok

 

[Caspers]

The one close to me sectioned a friend of mine for years. She managed to hang herself whilst on 1:1 suicide watch but they found her and she got a hypoxic brain injury. A few years later, she succeeded whilst being on 1:1 suicide watch. They are negligent and abusive.

 

[darksouls]

after my last hospital stay,
I felt worse afterwards than before,
the doctors and nursing staff were mean and disgusting to me

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

The one I went to was a DUMP, holy shit

Getting repetitive, but another review:

1. Way too fucking cold. I was never comfortable except maybe in bed wearing layers under the (one, thin) blanket for a while.

2. Mentally ill people tend not to be physically healthy. Two of my roommates had absurdly loud sleep apnea. Sleep was impossible. My time with the one legitimately crazy guy was the best; at least he was quiet while in bed. Out of bed he would say obscene and violent things in a demonic growl.

3. Crushing boredom. At least Dune Part 2 was on the TV one night. Besides that it was sudoku, coloring, and rummy, which is not the world's most interesting game. I never saw where the strategy came in. I read some Fullmetal Alchemist and Moby-Dick but I'm not much of a thinker these days, everything meaningful triggers some pain.

4. I guess group therapy was their one attempt to heal you. The doctor was just a 5min meds check-in. The sense that you were being babysat was unmistakable.

 

[NotSoEnchanted]

The last one I went to in February had good amenities, like 4 giant T.Vs, clean spaces, snack 3x a day, and yummy food (although the portions were very small). However the actual mental health care was a joke. I was there for 8 days and spoke to my therapist for a total of less than 15 minutes. I spoke to doctors 3 times, and was only asked 4 questions. If I'm depressed, anxious, homicidal, or suicidal. That's it. My experience was not unique in the sense that the other depressed/suicidal folk I made friends with felt the same way. The place didn't do shit for us and we were left wondering what the fuck the point of our stay was. Essentially I got free food, and watched an ungodly amount of T.V, that's it. They were also negligent as for the first two days I was there, they forgot to do 15 minute checks on me! I also had to move rooms 4 times for various reasons, one being my roommate wanted to harm me.

All in all it boils down to the fact that most places are for profit at their core, and are very medication centric. Until these places stop prioritizing profit over people and shift to truly caring about getting to the root cause of folks suffering, nothing is going to change for many of us. Systems designed to increase suffering and push people into being cogs in a machine for the rich also need to be teared down, as that too plays a part.

Sure some people are lucky and medication was all they needed, but for many of us, especially those who frequent SaSu, radical change in both our lives and minds is needed. And as of now, I would say about 90% of places cannot provide that because they're blinded by profit.