Poll: Have you ever been in a psych ward

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I certainly have. Many times. But lots of people here seemed to have managed without ever having been in one.

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I think I’ve been 5 or 6 times.

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I spent 3 years in and out of them repeatedly. Easily at least a dozen times. Ive also done residential treatment centers, partial outpatient centers, and rehabs.

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Im hoping to never end up there.

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I spent nearly 24 hours in the “waiting room” thing waiting to be processed. But they said I was fine and didn’t need to be kept there.

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Once age 18 for a month then age 28 and then twice soon after the last time I was in was two years ago I’m now 51

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Only once, right after the first episode.

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Why don’t wards allow you to have mobile/cell phones on you?
What do they think you are going to do with it?

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Phones were allowed for a majority of us, where I stayed at least. A few patients were deemed dangerous though, prohibited from leaving their room, heavily sedated and denied access to phones. No idea why.

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Several.

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In the UK (or at least the one I went to) they take it off you as you enter as if you are going to call terrorists to get you out or something… Seemed weird to me.

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Maybe they do it to help you.

Due to poor insight, you might reach your employer and call them a jackarse. Just an example.

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Yeah I guess thats probably their thinking.
Thing is I never use my phone to call anyone lol. Just use it for social media/videos/reading etc.

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SIM-less tablets should be allowed, though.

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three wards in one year…first two kicked me out before I stabilized because I didn’t have insurance…grrrrrr…

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Ive been like 8 or 9 times and ive only had schizophrenia for 7 years

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I was in the psych ward for three days at 19. I thought I would never be in one again, but I was in one for a month at 54 and in another one for 10 days right after that.

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1975- 1983 More than a dozen times
. Since March 8th 1983, not at all.

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I’ve been four times, all in 2013.

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Was in about six times from 1992-94. Was in once or twice since then mainly for exhaustion. Weirdest hospitalization was overseas in Italy while I was on a trip with a choir and got really bad jet lag

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