I’ve been committed to a nice private hospital but I’ve also been admitted to two really shitty psych wards. And then a middle of the line one (which was public also). So 4. In six hospitalizations. The two crappy ones I felt abused. Like the staff were on an ego trip. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.
Mine were all public. The last few where i currently live aren’t that bad. Its a horrible experience don’t get me wrong but its not nasty or anything. The shpwers suck though
Where do you live? Illinois??? I was admitted to this place called hallbrook. My friend calls it hellbrook but it was my favorite experience by far in the hospital. I was 20 and I just wrote raps the whole time and people were super friendly. The staff was so nice to me. Some girl gave me a cigarette and I smoked it in the shower and got caught and they didn’t even get mad hardly. They were just like tisk tisk. Stamford and Norwalk was abusive. The private one I didn’t like obviously because well I was suffering but it was better than Norwalk and Stamford but I didn’t like it as much as hallbrook. If I had to go back I’d choose hallbrook.
Each time in the last 20 years has been the same hospital, good people there, great food although other would argue, for me any cooked food by a person who knows what their doing is a bonus for me. I was treated with respect even though one time I showed up in a ambulance in my 100 year old comfy sweats (threw them out after that trip LOL) all is good there…
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No CO. and yea the staff were friendly and stuff. Its weird that i actually kinda got to know them since i went there like 4-5 times.
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When I had a suicide attempt/overdose I went to Yale hospital In new haven. I didn’t go to the psych ward though but that was a really nice friendly hospital. My doctor was really hot lol. I think the hospitals centered around tier 1 universities are the nicest.
Been in 4 different public hospitals. Transported to different hospitals half way through 2 hospitals. One was over a girl (they tend to split us up if it starts getting way to serious with boy/girl relationships in hospital.) One a new hospital just opened. Was funny we’re opening brand new TV’s, PlayStations etc out of the boxes.
!0 hospitalizations, six different hospitals. Overall, I’ve never had a good hospital experience. I mean there were incidents that were nice in them but overall, the stays there were negative for the very reason you stated. In every hospital I was just so psychotic, depressed and on the edge of going stark raving mad that I just suffered without relief from symptoms and I was very unhappy.
I’ve lived on that edge for years at a time. Ive been in nice, clean, safe hospitals and I’ve been in some dangerous unclean hospitals.
My last hospitalization was last year and it was definitely the most frightening hospital I’ve ever endured. All my hospitalizations thirty years ago were miserable but I was young and i could handle the danger better But now I’m 55 years old and when i got in that psyche ward last year the fright overwhelmed me because right from the start the people tried to scare me and it worked.
I could hardly sleep because everybody was acting so crazy and I was sleeping in a dorm and my fear that someone would attack me in my sleep I think was a real possibility. I remember some homeless guy two beds down from me went berserk one night when the orderlies woke him up to give him meds.
He lost control and started screaming and he probably would have attacked someone but six burly male nurses grabbed him and took him to the isolation room and he kept screaming and howling plaintively like an animal for hours until by some miracle I fell asleep.
I’ve lost count of how many hospitalisations I’ve had, although because I was homeless and travelled around, I was hospitalised in a few different places. The nicest one by far is a private hospital I go to now (I have adequate health insurance thankfully). The staff are friendly and the place is clean and quiet. I especially like the music groups and diversional therapy they have there. Public hospitals I’ve found, food was awful, staff were rude and other patients could be extremely violent. I am a pacifist so I really struggle with violence.
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my worst hospital experience where it felt like i was losing my mind completely, it was the meds causing a weird reaction, this girl told me i could order filet mignon so i ordered filet mignon and it was pretty good. But that was the only brightspot of that place. Not a mirror in the whole place. Staff abusive. One of the staff members got arrested for threatening a bank with a bomb. And he was the best member of the staff.
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OMG! 
Sounds horrendous!
I’ve been in so many different hospitals over the years I can’t even count them anymore. The Elgin Mental Health Center in Illinois was the worst of all. The best was St. Joe’s in Elgin. Big difference. EMHC is like hell on Earth. St. Joe’s is a walk in the park by comparison. But I’ve been all over the place.
I consider myself fortunate. I didn’t need to be hospitalized because of my mom’s vigilance. And my dad’s also. They’re doctors.
But part of the world where I live not everyone is that fortunate. Neither are hospitals that good. Be it public or private.
Where are you from @anon47866227?
Incredible India!
Oh yes, we know the troubles it is to have a mental illness in India. You’re lucky indeed, your parents being doctors.
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All public. All two hospitals.
The first two hospitalizations were before sz debuted. Those times were for depression and PTSD. This was before I moved to a different city.
All the other gazillion times were at the hospital in the town I moved to.
I’m not sure there are even any private psych wards in Sweden.
Anyway, I was always treated with dignity and respect by the staff, especially after I got to the psychosis ward. In the regular ward, they didn’t understand what was going on in my head and sometimes did/said things that were not exactly helpful. After the move to the psychosis ward, things got better.
I’ve been to 4 different public hospitals and 1 institution. Partly because I lived elsewhere and moved but mostly because I was not med-compliant. 2 of them were fairly nice, one wasn’t too bad and the other was pretty shitty. The institution was the worst sandly whenever I get hospitalized now I get transferred there. Out of those 5 places I’ve been, 3 allowed cigarettes.
Been hospitalised six or seven times. First two times were two separate private psychiatric clinics, then the next two were at a single state psychiatric hospital, then the next two at another state psych hospital. My sixth time I went to a general public hospital emergency room and a locked psych ward in the general hospital, before being transferred to the state psych hospital. The seventh time was in the same general hospital just in the emergency room.