To be honest it was a bad time and a pretty ok experience at the same time. The reason why it was a bad experience was because I was very delusional. You got three meals a day. The food wasn’t bad. They also had snacks and drinks. They had a tv in the lobby. I didn’t have to go to the group therapy sessions. I skipped them and nobody said anything. I think they knew I had social phobia. So it was kind of pleasant at the same time. The last time I went to the mental hospital was when I was 19 yrs old. Now I’m 41 yrs old and I have not been there since.
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I have strong emotional memories attached to it because its the last time in my life wen I was unmedicated and still had a brain that was not feeling suffocated from aps.
It was really nice to be around those people that first time in the hospital.
Those were good times. I fancied my pdoc
Heehee
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I made a similar post not long time ago lol
My stay was horrible in Canada, I was put with prisoners, drug addicts and mentally disabled patients. One prisoner stole my new nike shoes, a guy was walking nude and a girl shît herself and on the ground in her room, my roomate was having sex with a girl. Some girls asked me to have sex and use drugs with them. Others were fighting over a TV remote. It was a disgusting experience for me.
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My last hospitalization in 2015 was my scariest out of ten hospitalizations. I was afraid to go to sleep because literally everyone around me in the big room where men slept was acting crazy and loudly talking to themselves. My fears weren’t just paranoia. I woke up at 2:00 am and a homeless old man two
cots down from me flipped out when they woke him up to give him meds. He started screaming and yelling and it took six burly orderlys to restrain him and they took him away and put him in a seclusion room. For the rest of the night the whole ward could hear the poor bas*ard screaming at the top of his lungs in fear and anguish.
The only time a mental hospital is bad for me is when they put me on a typical ap, especially Haldol. If they do that the hospital is pure hell. The other times I just made the best of it. One time I was awake at 4:30 am, and I got my blanket, went out to the lounge, and started to read a good book. I think it was “Jane Eyre”. I looked so comfortable that when a couple of the staff were making the rounds they to me rather tersely to go back to bed. “This isn’t a resort” one of them said. I was doing some writing while I was in the hospital, and this female counselor was saying, “You can’t use the hospital as a place to write”. Hey, I didn’t ask to be taken there, but as long as I was there I was going to make the best of it.
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The first time I was completely out of it. Second time was really great as there was a good set of patients there to mix with, and it felt like home to me.
However, the times I have been in since I have absolutely hated it
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does medication help u stay out of the hospital?
A bit boring to be in the ward but it’s good food and company usually. Last time in 2015 it was really nice though in Australia.
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i though they were all actors.
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I suffered as I was afraid and psychotic etc but it came good or better because of other patients that were nice and good food and some form of activity and visitors and then being aloud out for a while.
One patient threw a glass of water in my face because she thought I was sitting in her seat.
One guy got in a punch up with a male nurse and another nurse pushed me to safety.
I made a boyfriend in one hospital and wore a stripper nurse outfit in to his room under my dressing gown on his birthday.
Lol
We still have contact but live in different countries.
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I’ve been in and out several times in the last two years. Most of my stays have been alright other than a few uncomfortable beds. I tend to sleep a lot in the hospital, I feel trapped whenever I’m hospitalized. The foods been alright in the hospitals in New Jersey, better than that of the hospitals back here in Idaho. I always bring my coloring books with me when I’m in the hospital. I think the most unpleasant time I had was that time they put me Haldol and I had backwords head and neck muscle contractions and I couldn’t figure out what was going on. It was so painful. Thankfully one of the nurses recognized it and gave me benztropine and it took care of it. I think the saddest thing is that every time I’ve been in the hospital I’ve had not a single visitor. Not a single family member nor a single friend. It really made me feel alone.
DUring my first stay I kept imagining the corridors and furniture were coalescing into intelligent life-forms, but I was well treated and the food was superb.
It’s been mixed. At one facility they treated me like ■■■■. One of the orderlies—a complete stranger—called me a piece of ■■■■ to my face after I said I didn’t want to be on tv. I blacked out several times that visit. The orderlies videotaped me on their cell phones without my consent. I dissociated and soiled myself and they left me in the bathroom all night. One of them snickered about it. I was having hallucinatory delusions the whole time. I thought I was on the set of a movie for awhile.
I’ve been in 2016 and 2018 . The food was good and able to watch TV,had books to read. Had to attend group therapy. Art therapy which I took was optional and relaxing
I liked the patient there, a manic french guy and some kind and friendly SZ.
But i did not like the doctors, they took away my AD’ meds for three days, and after two days i had discontinuation syndrome.
My first hospitalization would have been like a vacation if I hadn’t been symptomatic.
It was a fairly new, modern facility kind of out in the hills away from everything else. It was neat and clean and I had a nice room, and the food was good. A counselor took me jogging with him, the staff took us to the park to play kickball. We played volleyball out back. Also, in the back porch area I used to sit in a chair overlooking the hills, it was a great view.
I played pool and ping-pong. I talked to a few girls. Played chess with staff. I used to wander in the main hospital to the breakroom and get Cokes out of their vending machine.
The ward had a room with a bathtub and I used to take long baths. There was a small room they called a gym and it had a turntable and I used to go in there by myself and listen to a Simon & Garfunkel album.
Probably the most memorable thing about my first stay was this girl I was interested in walked up to me when we were alone in the kitchen one night and started kissing me. I got to make out with her a little until a staff member walked in and we had to pretend nothing was going on. Later that night we were alone in the gym and I was about five seconds away from losing my virginity to her but a nurse walked in and broke it up. Staff were kind of mad at me for that but if they were me they would have done the same thing.
Yeah, all that stuff would have been so fun if I hadn’t been totally crazy the whole time so I didn’t really enjoy it.
At The Queen Elisabeth Hospital a woman thought I was a copper.
I was hospitalized at least 6 times in 4 different provinces. Each experience was different. I found that they didn’t feed me enough at most of them but Saskatchewan was the best for food. They had a buffet. I liked the hospital in Quebec for activities. We watched movies and they even had a dance while I was there.
@Protone123 I also thought that the people in the hospital in Quebec were actors
I particularly enjoyed building puzzles while hospitalized but reading was difficult because of the meds. I guess I got really good at finding ways to be hospitalized because I was homeless. I needed food and a rest from my visions time. If you tell them you don’t want to go in, they will take you. When you want out tell them you don’t want to leave.
I have friend who is currently hospitalized in Saskatchewan. Because of the social isolation he can only leave his room for one hour out of the day and can’t have any visitors or anything given to him from outside. There not allowing them to smoke anymore either, which was one of the reasons why I didn’t mind that hospital. I feel bad for him and anyone else who is in there during this time. I can’t imagine being locked in your room all day helping your mental health at all.
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My experience is that, its well intention-ed place to recover. I just think its really boring. I’m glad I had family whom lent me a favorite book, and a magazine because it was seriously boring.
Of course besides that, the initial acclimation to my altered consciousness was weird. Being told you’re schizophrenic doesn’t really hit you, even if you’re simultaneously having an altered consciousness. So once I got grounded that was a relief, but other then that it was really boring. Like being in an airport with old magazines but without the fun people watching.
I’ve been many, many times. All different experiences. Mostly ok. One horrific experience. The food was usually really good except one time this one doctor put me on sodium restricted diet and the food was bland. I remember I used to get really sick every time I ate chicken and this one hospital I was in served a chicken salad sandwich I was so hungry and so stoned on Ativan that I ate the sandwich anyway and I didn’t get sick and that’s when I found out I could start eating chicken again.
The best thing about the hospital is that they can rapidly adjust your meds and make a difference rather quickly. The longest I’ve been in the hospital is 11 days. I think that’s pretty amazing.
During the Carr fire that burned down Northern California I was evacuated from one mental hospital and driven to a nearby city to another. The flames were so close we could see them as we drove away. It was terrifying. Ash was falling on us for days as the fire came closer but we had no idea it would come that close.
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