Im from Ireland but when I feel I need to be hospiatised, I go abroad and have experienced mental hospitals in England, wales Scotland and Belgium. I just turn up at ER and tell them Im having extremely paranoid feelings and fear for my life. They admit. Thanks to the EU, the stays cost me nothing. Do you agree with psychiatric t
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I want to travel!!! But if I would travel, I would walk around and take pictures of things. If I felt I needed to be in the hospital I would probably go in an empty area and try to let it pass, silly, I know, but I try to stay away, far away from being in the hospital. It’s interesting that you are so willing to go there. I just got out a few days ago, so maybe my opinion is warped. Take care!
That does not sound fun to me at all. I have been in a total of four institutions multiple times and that enough. I just count my blessings I never got sent to the one for the criminally insane.
Ive been hospitalized in three different countries but it wasnt voluntary. The UK system is a bit harsh with its regulations.
I didn’t know that. I thought you guys didn’t have involuntary commitment. Ever since that shot thoughs kids at grade school the stigma from even from law enforcement has been really bad. When I lived in the town over I called the police a lot and they got to know me pretty well. At the hospital people called me Hail Mary because I would touch my heart and then my ear over and over again.
one time I was with my mom in her car and I always put the shoulder strap behind my back cause it felt confining. I still wore the bottom part of a the seat belt. We were near the store I walked to and a traffic cop touched his heart and ear and pointed at me. I thought it was a hallucination and then my mom started yelling at me that the cop wanted me to put the harness on. Meaning they had been watching me. This happened in relatively big city. Weird.
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Im not from the UK, but they can keep you 28 days without any trial.
On what grounds?
to see if your mad I suppose.
probably also a danger to self and others.
This can happen in the Isles, Karl. The care of the United Kingdom will always be respected, and I travel state to state sometimes just for care during a medicine change. It’s a pain, even having to log in truthfully///but I have been one who has been a team player since it.
That’s crazy! In the 70’s in the US the Quakers made it their to get us out of permanent institutions. They succeeded. Now the only way they can put you in there is if you are a danger to yourself or others. They put me in there for banging my head against the wall. Its wasn’t even that hard its just something that would give me peace. They tried to put me in there for not having any food but couldn’t because there was old crusty beans in the back of my fridge lol but then they got me in there for trying to climb out of a two story window with sheets tied together right in the middle of the city. Its kinda funny people were walking by tugging on them lol
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No one should be hospitalized unless a danger.
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I like most hospitals but if I could travel again I don’t think I would check out other hospitals. Hopefully I wouldn’t need too.
Get some foods and nurture the place you’re in, wherever you are, they are too you know.
Hold on if your still on. I will post pictures.