I spent a year in a private psychiatric hospital in Dallas, Texas a few decades ago. Since then all my care has come from the public sector of psychiatric care. In all my posting on this site, I don’t think I have come across anyone who stayed in a private psychiatric hospital. If anyone has, how was it for you?
I like public care, I have been an outpatient of one public clinic for many many years.
I was kind of underwhelmed by private care. It was a lot more structured, and they fed us great, but it seemed like there was no real involvement in therapy from the patients. It seems to me that the public sector does more good with fewer resources.
Are you talking about Private Hospitals versus State Hospitals?
All my stays were in Private facilities.
I was recently Involuntarily committed twice to the same Private Psych Hospital.
The first time was a nightmare.
The second time was a bit better.
Thank goodness I’ve never been to a State Hospital before.
Yeah lots of decent food.
I have noticed in my society that many people do not feel well, and some ‘korkkaavat’ = drink liquor to feel better, but the right choice for them would be to go to the psych clinic, they may drink because they have depression or other mental illness.
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Have only been to state hospitals. I think they have more experience of severe cases.
I’ve been hospitalized over twenty times, and the state run facilities I was in weren’t bad. Some were kind of drab, but they were okay.
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IDK…Ive learned the private sector I had been a frequent flyer in is actually the ones responsible for an entire religion based on the quality of care in life-not just treating the bad symptoms…I give it A+++++
The public sector tried to keep me an extra 2 weeks longer by lying that Iwasn’t eating my meals, fighting with my roommate, not participating in meetings…all because I had health insurance.
What do you mean by that?
Yeah this is a problem with Private Hospitals.
If you have decent insurance they keep you there longer, whether you need it or not.
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I had private insurance when I was hospitalized in 2012 and, even though I was in for only 4 or 5 days, the so-called doctor who was employed by the insurance company decided that the last day and a half of my stay was medically unnecessary. I would say I was in for an appropriate amount of time, but I got hit with a huge bill because my insurance refused to pay for that day and a half. The bill was taken care of by a patient assistance program through the hospital, but that pissed me off that a psychiatrist who had never talked to me could decide that the psychiatrist who was treating me was wrong. Sickening. That time I was in for being suicidal and in prodrome for psychosis. It was at a private hospital.
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Out of my six hospital stays the first two were in private hospitals. They were like hotels really very good care. But my public hospital experiences weren’t too bad I had nothing to complain about really. The only disadvantages I’d say about private is they are so expensive and public is that they kicked me out of outpatients when i got stable and so now I am back in private system, see a private pdoc when needed.
My first 2 visits were at a private hospital. It was like summer camp. So much to do, so many groups. Then my next 3 were at a community hospital. Very drab, few groups, nothing to do. You were just there to stabilize on meds, no therapy.
You’re right about that. I think that is their only goal in public hospitals these days. When I was getting hospitalized back in the early nineties they kept me hospitalized around four months at a time. I wonder if part of the reason for that was to get the patient accustomed to the idea that he was going to have to take very unpleasant medications for the rest of his or her life. Now that they have come out with the atypical ap’s they don’t need as much time to impress on the patient the need to stay on the medications.
I’ve stayed in private hospitals 5 times, once for 4 months. I stayed in a state hospital once. The state hospital was better in my opinion. The problem is that the state hospitals here have stricter admissions standards so it’s harder to get in. I do my outpatient through the state though.
It seems to me that state psychiatric facilities do more with fewer resources. I never had any problem getting into the state facilities. They usually brought me there in handcuffs. It could be that part of my bias against private facilities is for what they charge. For that amount of money they should work miracles.
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Seventh day adventists.
I learned about them only last month what their idea of health care is, and that was by watching a documentary on health care on PBS.
Was back in 1997 that I had been to their mental hospital- frequently- as in over 20 times.
They are quite impressive.