Continuing the discussion from Should We Bring Back Mental Asylums?:
What kind of things would you like to see?
I’d like to see well-trained staff, conservative medication prescribing (no more 80mg of Haldol for everyone), art therapy, things to do on the ward (ping-pong, TV, smoking section, cards, etc), and mandatory therapy sessions, viz., group and family. I think that about covers it.
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I don’t necessarily think bigger is better. I could see smaller and closer to a community… more then just one in a whole state. Not out in the middle of no where so it becomes a prison in it’s own isolation.
That way family can actually not drive a full day just for a one hour visit. I think it would be easier to feel or get reconnected to a family if they are closer in to a community.
It would be great if there wasn’t reprimands for smoking.
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I would include better catering facilities
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like a beautiful english village on top of a mountain with amazing views and lots of different gardens…
and colourful houses to stimulate the senses…
take care 
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I would like to see a university for people who have schizophrenia. Educate us for free if we qualify and manage our medication and therapy on campus. I find school to be the best place for my mind. I need to stay mentally occupied. There are a lot of people like me. Most people with paranoid schizophrenia are actually of above average intelligence.
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I wouldrather there not be ANY asylums, we are not crazy, and it makes me pissed to think that anyone would want this kind of thing…
Lots of gardens + sunlight.- Real asylum + not the institution kind.
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You read my mind…
Yes, exactly something like that. i was going to post a picture: this is a Norwegian village, but same idea… make it a retreat and not an institution. And like Mortimermouse said, make it a school as well…
Of course I would want to see alternative therapies and treatments, not the one that is used in traditional ‘asylums’
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Build it entirely with Lego’s.
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I personally like the idea of an asylum. But I’m not a fighter. There have been several times where I was just ready to give up. Not suicide give up but just go to a hospital and stay there.
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In my own little world, I’d have an “asylum” for those that needed it.
Sometimes the “unwilling” are the ones that need it the most.
There would be an advocate or two, or three, for each person, that would do whats best for that person, including taking into account the persons’s wishes and desires, and, include their environment and family/friends capability/capacity/desire to help them.
You stay as long as you need, not as long as your insurance pays.
The food would be nutritious, and would actually taste good.
Something to do, something to learn, something to build a future on to give hope instead of a vast endless vacuume that sucks the life from your soul.
There would be a gentle transition back into the environment, with regular followup, and check ups until it’s no longer needed, determined by all parties, not as I have only experienced, the open door of the facility, and a goodbye wave, then the door closes and you are “free to go”.
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Pinball tables, Netflix, hot tubs, and a Sundae bar. I know that kind of facility would do wonders for MY mental health.
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Lots of raisins and ice cream. Casual Fridays. Hooters girls as nurses.
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You, sir, are a kindred spirit.
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That’s totally not my experience with schizophrenics.
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Im talking about the paranoid subtype only. Perhaps you have met a sample of people who have it who do not represent the whole population? Quite a possibility.
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Me too. I know they say SZ in general are lower intelligence, and I’ve met a few, but to me it seems there were many in the 120 - 150 IQ range which is well above average to gifted / highly advanced range depending on what scale you are going by.
While I am not making this observation of a large group of people as in thousands, it is from several people I have met in or from at least 5 different states in different parts of the country, some in hospitals and most outside of hospitals, in a period of over 30 years.
Haha ^0^ that was good 
I agree with mouse that there need to be mental occupation for people with scz, he calls for universities and I call for employment, easy job that occupy the times of the mentally ill and keep them busy doing productive job with results.