I live in Kazakhstan, it is located in central Asia. And hospitals here are terrible. The building is old, medical staff will mistreat you, and food is horrible. Phone is prohibited and you cannot see nobody. Being there feels almost like a jail. And they will keep you for 1.5 month no matter what. How was it for you? Is it better in your country?
In the uk it is much more kinder. Hospital staff arent allowed to mistreat and generally in my experience, they dont. Im allowed phone usually and i even get given breaks where i can go onto the surrouding grounds for fresh air or cigarettes
Food is quite bad though, and drs are usually very arrogant
Wow, i wouldn’t be scared of hospitalisation if i had the same conditions in the hospital. And for how long they keep you there?
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Dont go to a hospital unless im dying or sectioned. Not that they are that bad in the uk, its just boring.
I’ve long made the argument that i recover better at home - so long as you dose me up on the drugs i ask for. And it suits them, cos they usually never got any beds in my area anyway.
Me and mental health wards dont get on. Im the type to leg it, given half the chance.
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Is it even possible to escape?
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I just came out of the hospital.
Here the environment made no difference, I still was super paranoid about the other patients plotting to kill me
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I had no idea what was going on and thought I was being framed as mentally ill, I couldn’t use my phone so I was bored to death, the shrink there was an ass, fortunately I dont have her as a doctor anymore I was only there for four days i’m lucky I guess.
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Yes, ive done a runner before. But ive never really been in a secure unit. Im lucky im never not that bad in all honesty. I respond well to medication and a good sleep.
Forensics wards obviously are a different matter.
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Depends on the patient and the case of psychosis
Medications did not help?
I left to finish Clozapine titration at home
Don’t think they were too impressed
Anyways today I nearly was not allowed the Clozapine because of my blood pressure being high - which is unheard of for me historically
But yea, they kinda backed me into a corner a bit to do Clozapine, and so far loads of side effects, but not enough time to measure the effectiveness
Being a smoker doesn’t help, and apparently my caffeine intake is too high
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I’ve been hospitalised quite a lot of times, I’m almost losing count but mostly in govt hospitals. I’m from South Africa .
The food is ok the nurses are friendly, the drs are ok too but some are merely students and can’t diagnose properly.
The hospitals are also ok just boring and I can’t have my phone whilst there except in therapy wards where it’s restricted to an hour twice a day.
Oh and in most wards they gave you clothes to wear, you couldn’t wear your own unless you were in therapy wards or discharge ward.
It felt like a prison especially acute ward but it was ok. I was scared a bit but soon settled in.
I stayed from five days in general hospital psych ward, up to two weeks or a month in psych hospitals
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Not too impressive in Norway. Took my phone. There is almost nothing to do. Food is not good. At least you get a room for yourself, but someone had carved a swastika on the wall which was not so nice to look at. Had to stay for at least 3 weeks in my case.
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When I was in the hospital last year a guy jumped over the fence in the courtyard and escaped. He came back though.
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The hospital I was at here in the States SUCKED. No TV, no phone, no music, no internet, no coffee, food sucked. I basically paced the ward for 12 hours a day. Fortunately, I did get to see my folks every night for a visit and they would bring me magazines/books to look at. I was in there for a week, even though I was only symptomatic for like 2 days. My episodes are brief
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The hospitals I’ve been to don’t allow phones at all. There’s therapy all day long though. The nights are free for cards, tv, etc. The staff is nasty though. Very uncaring and stone cold. The food is mediocre
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Is that jack nicholson as your avatar?
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The main hospital I go when psychotic according to you is plain heaven:
- phone, laptop and other gadgets allowed as long as youre not doing stupid like calling the police
- 7~ smoke breaks
- if you behave nicely you get free regime, which means you can walk in the hospitals territory as much as you want, but you need to return for meds and meals
- overseer security also depends, but I didnt like most of them
-pretty alright foosd
-lots of painting, music and other therapies - 3 coffee/tea breaks
Drawback:
- usage of really old meds in masssive doses and being discharged on a wrong med combo (like haloperidol long acting injection)
- docs rarely discuss the meds you give you and only stops giving a med if you get like dystonia or extreme muscle stiffness (they just feed you more of the nasty antiparkinsons agents)
- some strict and harassful staff, but understandable in their cases
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I’m in California in the U.S. We had a pool table and a basketball court and a ping pong table. It was clean and the food was good and there was a 5 gallon carton of ice cream in the freezer at all times that we could help ourselves to any time. This was before cell phones and PC’s but we had TV. I was miserable in there but I’d rather be miserable in comfort than some old, dirty, rundown hospital. The staff would take us to coffee across the street at the mall. And when I got too antsy they let me take walks outside around the building. There was an alcohol rehab next door and we were allowed to go to AA meetings there. There was zero tolerance for violence, if you acted up or got threatening you were immediately removed and sent to a far less nicer hospital.
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Lol, i am pretty sure we have paid health resorts that is worse than what you described.
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