Like a hemorrhoid that won’t go away. 
guys calm down, live and let live and all of that,
i remember the tv in my mental ward, my mum came up to visit and i asked if i could turn the volume down and some people said no so i went over to the tv and tried to turn it down but it changed the channel and no-one could turn it back, i have a memory that may or may not have been real where i knocked the tv over but i dont think i did, i just remember my mum couldnt hear me bc she has hearing problems.
One place where I was inpatient there were mostly depressed and anxious people and they kept generalizing thinking everyone was like them and that we all understood eachother and liked eachother. Really got on my nerves as I had little in common with them and many of them had really annoying personalities. Had to leave the group on multiple occasions, kept coming back because they required you to participate in their so-called therapy.
No modelling balloons (??) in Canada (any sort of therapy for mentally ill uses money that is better spent on dubious social engineering projects or our national broadcaster). We just get a TV that is always tuned to the wrong show. Oh, and as much CPZ as you want. Because it’s cheap and patients sleeping 24/7 until you put them back out on the street cuts down on nursing costs.
But, hey, we have ‘free’ health care. Yay!
Pixel.
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That is what I was complaining about when I got locked lol. No extra activities, work therapy or such. Just pills, food, therapy, no TV, smoking, sleeping, eating, therapy.
But now when I think…acute department had a little TV with one channel …so that’s good.
Where I live, hospitals are basically somewhere you can be put for observation when you are unstable or in crisis. Or when you are having your meds changed and you have a history of going sideways during med changes. There hasn’t been therapy offered for the last fifteen years or so that I’m aware of, which is stupid. The pills aren’t enough. You need people challenging your twisted thinking and helping you unravel it if you are to ever get better. Or, at least I did.
I don’t think group therapy works for this as the groups I was in when they still had them were like the Unusual Beliefs forum. Sick people intent on making each other sicker. I’ve also had some wingnut therapists. I think @notmoses has it right about the value of doing the workbooks, however.
Pixel.
Here, a regular 22 days stay includes like half an hour with therapist but not every day…just when they think it is important. Group therapies are on voluntary basis and they put patients with outwards folks together…which is idiotic.
Other than that, you can walk around hospital yard and have as much smokes as you want.
22 DAYS?!? Wow. Here they try and pitch you out within a week. A two-week stay is incredibly rare.
Pixel.
@anon82948922 (forgot to click reply): I was in hospital for 4 months to stabilize and get a diagnosis. A week to two weeks sounds almost like malpractice…
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Yeah, 22 days indeed. At the end, you are more disconnected from reality than before lol.
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The group’s I did in the private hospital where very different than the public hospital. Better quality, better therapist, people were actually trying to get better…
I’m supersensitive to negativity.
I’m not reading this thread.
Peace and love. That’s all I can handle this month.
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I found the outpatient therapy helpful because it made me realize that my problems weren’t really that bad, and i became embarrassed about being there for wanting to commit suicide. I didn’t even have an attempt, I wrote a suicide note about not wanting to be a closet case monster for the rest of my life and then started walking to get somewhere and then turned back cuz I was thinking about my family. I want to say it’s because I loved God enough to live, but at that point my faith was very weak. But yeah, there were people there about to lose their jobs and had families to support, or had to work very hard and had no family or friends. A lot of them had drug problems, and I never got into drugs, so I didn’t even have addiction to complain about. I felt like an idiot. I was there, really, because I was upset about having schizophrenia, dropping out of college, and afraid of my mother moving back in with us because I thought she would kill my dad, maybe. Instead my mom turned over a new leaf and has been kind ever since moving back in and getting remarried to my dad. I feel so ashamed of myself. I dunno, I guess I just couldn’t handle that I went from being a 4.0 student in high school to dropping out of college and having a real problem like schizophrenia. I was so embarrassed about myself for still not having a driver’s license and becoming fat, and well, I’m pretty much ashamed of myself in every single way.
Group in the hospital was horrible.
Later I went to 12 Step Groups that were wonderful.
Jayster