Rate the mental health system in your country 1 to 10. What could be improved?
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I can’t rate because I don’t know how to rate. I wish we have affordable brain scans - spect scans and supplements to repair the brain there after
Happiness is a state of existence.
I want more mental institutions and longer than three day stays. I’m in the US.
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- I live in the United States. I think we have a LOT we need to work on. One, we need longer stays. The average is only 4 days. Plus like the United Kingdom, we need to get rid of physical restraints. We are doing better. I worked at a psychiatric hospital and the longest we could restrain people was 2 hours. Unlike days on end like it used to be. I am a big supporter of medicine though.
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I am in the US. I have never been hospitalized for less than 10 days. I have been locked in a safe room but never restrained though.
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In the USA psych wards they should teach you how to cook. I think they do that in the UK.
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I think it is different by state. Ive been inpatient five times. I have been in as long as one month and as short as one day. I have only been physically restrained once. Mostly when very psychotic I would let them give me a shot of haloperidol.
I give it a ■■■■■■3. It’s hard to find a worth a ■■■■doctor and theyre so expensive.
The hospitals treat you like â– â– â– â– with hard beds and isolation
Its a no from me.
But you do get the freedom to shop around for doctors which is a plus
I give it a 6.
Ok rehibilitation.
Ok hospital stays.
Pdocs ok, vary a lot.
Finland, a country where healthcare is top ranked.
2/10. You can get a bed if you’re in crisis, but all they really do is bomb the hell out of you with meds to get you thru the worst of it and then discharge you waaaaaaay too soon. Someone who is not doing well generally and needs help will wind up flying under the radar and not getting any help at all. We have almost nothing for therapy or counseling unless you belong to a church or are on assistance. Even those who work and have benefits find they aren’t well-covered there.
I’m Canadian.
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It’s OK. 6
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Ä° may give 5 we can reach all of aps in the turkey yet.and we can take all medication free from state.we have yearly basic check ups. But psych wards is not enough and its in bad condition.just small amount of hospitals have good standards. But i don t think this social rights its going to be last long because turkey going to be really deep economic crisis but i m wishing the best. 
Never been admitted to a psych ward in the US, but I will say the one I went to in Sweden was fantastic. Like staying in a bed and breakfast, where they check on you every 15 minutes lol
Ive heard in the US its more “corporate”. Very impersonal. I wish it was more like, I dont know, friendly. I think they could improve quite a few things if they followed the European model of just being generally decent to people and talk people down better
I give it a 3. Living in the city and seeing the vast amount of homeless and visibly mentally ill really hurt my opinion of mental health in the US. Also, they kick you out of the hospital way too early, but I think my insurance decided that.
United States: 1
People with severe mental illness (psychosis) used to be housed (my word) in long-term institutions. These facilities had thousands, tens of thousands in some cases, of people with severe mental illness. There was no treatment, primarily due to no APs existing at the time, and what passed as treatment was barbaric.
In 1952, Thorazine (I believe it was the first antipsychotic) was introduced, and it was the impetus for a movement called “deinstitutionalization,” a shift from long-term institutions to smaller, short-term psychiatric hospitals and group homes. However, unlike the military and prisons, a psychiatric-industrial complex never came to fruition, mainly because Medicare and Medicaid couldn’t fund the demand.
Consequently, deinstitutionalization was replaced by jails and prisons. The U.S. has about 2.2 million people in jails and prisons on any given night, with an estimated 25-40% of those people having a severe mental illness. Thus the largest psychiatric hospitals in the country are the Cook County Jail, the Los Angeles County Jail, and Rikers Island.
Homelessness is also a big problem for people with severe mental illness. There is an estimated 550,000 people who are homeless on any given night, and about 25% of them are people with severe mental illness.
The mental health system is broken. People with severe mental illness are sent home early, or not admitted, because there simply are no beds available.
It’s a disgrace.
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In France, psychiatric system is also failed because not enough money invested.
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Where I live 7 out of 10 problem is they keep you in hospital for min 28 days if sectioned under the mental health act.But 3 meals a day plus snack/drink before bed.Lots of things to do games console,pool table,table football and activities plus TV and movie night
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I won’t rate it because it depends where you are in my country, how rich you are, and how serious your local area takes it. I’ve heard of some great programs for the mentally ill in the US and I’ve heard of some terrible places to be. I also must say that the success rate doesn’t matter as only a certain percentage of us will do well on what’s available any way. I’ve met some people who were doing well. I’ve met some people who will never do well. The rest depend on how they are treated. I’ve been told that I was doing well because I knew what drugs I took and when I took them. Really? That’s not exactly a high jump to achieve.
I give it a 2 or 3 out of 10.
I’m in the states and some of the conditions of these psych hospitals are horrendous.
In a rich country, shouldn’t be this way.
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Because of the fact that it is free, I would give it a 8/10. There are definately improvements to be made though.