They would bring therapeutic dogs in for pet therapy
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Few women from rural area regularly tried to sell their goodies there. 
We also brought some rakia.
OK now Iām fantasizing.
iāve been inside 3 times longest was 6 weeks and that was the first time and then another 6 weeks a couple years later then 3 weeks when i took too many meds and they thought i was trying to kill myself lol 
luckily not too long, i have managed to avoid it mostly by being med compliant and having a friend to rely on (whom i met in hospital) ironically
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Yeah Iāve been hospitalized six times ā¦every time I was off meds. I started to notice a pattern. No meds=hospital. Been almost two years on meds and out of hospital (knock on wood). First time was 50 days second was 15 days third was 2 months but part of it was rehab. 4th was 18 days. 5th was 8 days and 6th was 2 weeks. Thatās half a year in the hospital
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To be honest I didnāt find groups to be affective in hospitals as I do outside of the hospital. Iāve only been in twice to get help for my problems, but all I did was lay around and did some occupational therapy which I found more interesting then the rest of it. The real reason why I went in the first time was because I just honestly played my part in my mental health to get what I needed from the state and what not and my family members did as well and it worked out for the best actually and the sobriety was good for me as well so it was a good thing that I went in and did it and it helped in the long run.
So outpatient I find to be more affective, because of therapy for one and your not just sitting around your busy doing things and staying busy if you can manage your symptoms.
Have a good one!
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Yeah, syphillus.
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I agree, the most abusive place Iāve been in is Iowa and San Jose.
in our asylum, the TV was dominated by old movies on channels like A&E. One of the idiot CNAs came in with the move āwho flew over the cuckooās nestā one day, like we need to see that while weāre trapped in there.
one day a US postal worker got drunk and set her kitchen on fire, got put in there for about a week.
there were several alcoholics, one alcoholic was a cherokee indian, trying to get a job as a Salvation Army Santa 
I heard that many of these people cycle in and out of that faciliy all the time, get free food, sober up, and go home.
my roommate, one of them was an old hells angel hooked on her prescription drugs, the police came in and interviewed her. going after the doc who prescribed all the pills. she lived in some kind of religous shelter, God help them!
and other roommate I had was the valedictorian of her high school, swallowed her motherās pain medications. her family didnāt want her to come home. she shouted on the phone all day, swore to me that she meant to kill herself swallowing the pills, and then wouldnāt shutup all day when the dr wouldnāt let her out. I was sick to death of that place.
Ha, I live in San Jose right now. In the seventies it was the Angel Dust capitol of the U.S. More of that crap here than anywhere else.
Calling it an asylum while you have tv and other luxuries really disrespects those who actually lived in real asylums.
Go get your inflammation treated and get on with your life.
I stayed at a psychiatric hospital in Dallas for a year and we had group twice a day. It seemed like no one was really involved in therapy, and we spent a lot of dead time there. We have short groups at the assisted living center where I live. Theyāre not bad because theyāre short. We spend the rest of the time drifting around the clubhouse. They have internet computers we can get on there at certain times of the day. Thatās about the right amount of structure for me.
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I still have to go to group as a gateway to have the privelidge to get my meds. I donāt mind it and my therapist has helped me get my guitar out of hock PLUS next week heās changing my spark plugs on my truckā¦great guy really. Like a real friend.
iāve been to the Kaiser hospital and the psych hospital in San Jose, some research place. I have trouble sometimes with my eyesight, I was looking for my friends house, and the colors were changing on me, so I stopped my car and dialed 911, it was nighttime. didnāt know what else to do.
you were in a hospital for an entire year?
having 1 TV for 10-20 people is really not a luxury. I recall you from before, you are just nasty all the time and disagree with everything i say regardless of what it is.
I donāt like your negative avatar either. do they pay you to be here?
Yes. It was a private psychiatric hospital. When I started going to public mental hospitals they used to keep me there for about four months, but that changed. That was a long time ago. Now the longest stays are about three weeks, and theyāre usually shorter than that. I have a theory that one of the reasons they shortened the time at public hospitals is because patients are more likely to stay on their antipsychotic medications because of the introduction of atypical antipsychotics. Back when they only had the typicals it took a lot longer for people to get used to the idea that they had to stay on them.
Yeah, you had it so much worse than people who suffered in real asylums.
I try.
Youāre that older woman with the username āhatā something, right? If you donāt have schizophrenia and you disagree with everything this site supports then why are you here?
Yep. This sounded familiar, and when you mentioned āhat,ā it came to meā¦@NiceHat.
Nope. The costs outweigh the benefits. I left my last outpatient due to politics and because a sociopath/borderline creeped me out/annoyed me. Ended up going to a different hospital that I thought would be better and it was a lot less comfortable. It was hard to get in and not worth it. I almost died after I got out due to NMS. I will never go back there. Iāve been off psychiatric medications for over two weeks. Iām afraid to try them again. So far Iām doing ok. I havenāt smoked cigarettes or had energy drinks. I feel stupid and like I had a lobotomy. Iām tired, lazy, and just want to be alone.
Yeah, a troublesome poster that I had to ban. Then ban again for creating duplicate user accounts. Seems like sheās back with yet another account.