I don't think I'd ever consider being hospitalized for my psychosis

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I usually get so unreasonable that my wife can’t take it anymore and I end up in the ER.

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I was Involuntarily committed twice to the same Psych Hospital within a 2 month span.
I was actually dangerous to myself and others the second time around but the cops were unaware of this at the time.

The Ambulance took me to the ER both times, I ended up getting locked in the Psych section of the ER then shipped off to the Psych Hospital the following day both times.

The whole experience was traumatic especially when I was locked in the Psych section of this one Hospital the second time.
I was very Psychotic and one of the Head Nurses there was very stern and Abusive.

I ended up receiving 2 shots of Haldol/Ativan combo and strapped and locked in restraints after I attempted to punch the thick plexiglass divide window repeatedly separating the staff and patients.

I had a better experience the second time in the Psych Hospital.
The first time was Awful.

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I’ve always been terrified of being “caught and trapped”. That’s how I have seen it. I used to think that if my parents had me hospitalized, when I was a teenager and really needdd the help, that it wouldn’t be help, but that it would brainwash me… But as I get older I wonder if I would gain anything from the experience… I can’t stand being confined, looked at, and/or told what I have to do, so I think I’d rather not.
Not everyone does have a choice. I guess I’m lucky.

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I would never want to go but I have had four trips to inpatient. It was never my choice.

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Check your human rights in at the door and forced drugging…
Your not even aloud to VOTE when you’ve been sectioned.
However I think the old asylums were a bit better at least there was sense of community instead of isolation.

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I also went to the hospital for suicidal ideation via voluntary admission in 2007 and I was confused when I found out later they had slapped the Psychosis Nos label on my chart. So that confused me as apparently there were other things going on that I thought was just normal behavior.

Anyways, it was probably good I was there regardless. But I hear you on the mood problems as a clear reason to be admitted but there may be other things going on as well.