Does anyone have good experiences about hospitals?
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it’s like a resort compared to jail.
part of me doesn’t think they should admit involuntary patients because I don’t think it makes for a healthy atmosphere for all the voluntary patients.
honestly the hospital wasn’t bad, I got my own bathroom and bed, pretty healthy meals. I was even able to choose off a vegan menu. I could walk around, you have the chance to meet people and then I got hooked up with community services. also lots of access to doctors. for me they would come by at least once a day.
every time I was picked up by the cops and taken to the hospital it was a huge relief, as I’ve been to both jail and hospital. they just feel I should be medicated. then again, I wasn’t committing crimes either. it is what it is.
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I don’t like them and the three times I was forced in one I didn’t think I needed it but the last time it was the safest place for me. So they do serve a purpose.
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It really depends on the hospital. I’ve been to about a dozen different hospitals in 4 different states in the US and they were all different. There’s one that I really didn’t like. It was never a good time or very productive. But other than that one all the others were alright. Even when I was there against my will.
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I have very mixed experiences with the hospital I was committed to. It’s very boring, there’s lots of pacing and waiting, and you’re bound to gain weight, due to the cocktail of drugs you’re put on. The people aren’t usually the type you want to make friends with outside the hospital. Yet, I still have moments of weakness where I half-way yearn to be back in there, and psychotic, since it’s pretty damned interesting, if not sad.
Your psychosis coming in makes life feel like a one-man play, and if you’re lucky, the play ends by the time you’re let out.
My spital was semi open, I should buy ciggarets from the security guard, I also met a girl there older then me but cute as he’ll. Know he’s like 90kg but still cute, we don’t talk anymore :sad:
I wish I had been more clear about my food issues when I went in because there were a lot of mealtimes where I didn’t have much to eat because I’m picky. The hospital I went to for my involuntary stay was mostly alright. We had a TV room; there were puzzles and coloring sheets. We weren’t allowed our electronics at all, so all phone calls had to be made on the hall phone. There was one really nice day where a therapy dog came in, then we were allowed outside even though we weren’t supposed to be. That was nice.
it is very sadly experience
no one care about you feel like you are lost
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Every hospital I’ve ever been in was fine. It was just me who was so screwed up that I couldn’t enjoy being there. My first psyche ward could have been like a dream vacation. It was a relatively new facility, it was kind of out in the country, I counselor took me jogging with him one day, the food was good, I was 19 and I got to make out with a 27 year old blonde woman who liked me.
They kept snacks in the refrigerator for us to have. We walked to a park 5 minutes away and played “kickball”. I used to go sit by myself in a chair overlooking a beautiful forested valley. We played volleyball one day etc.
But I didn’t enjoy even one minute of it because I was so screwed up in the head ( I still am, but not from schizophrenia)That was 28 years ago, now that some of my symptoms have subsided and I’m a 100 times better I would love to go back there and stay a month as a vacation.
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There were a few. In one experience the staff let me talk to some of the nurses. In the last experience I watched the NBA playoffs with some guys with some of the snacks they normally used for taking meds. A guy there convinced me to go off porn.
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