Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility

[God of Mr. Hanky]

CD (if you don't mind answering these questions), what are they doing for you in the hospital that you think actually helps you?

I'm curious because my life has been so dark and unstable from chronic depression that I can't believe hospitalization has never been recommended for me. I tend to overthink everything and fall down disgusted from it, and my recovery periods are only getting shorter. Being too intelligent (if I don't say so myself) to believe dying is any better, and being studied at the art of fooling most of the world with my shit-eating grin, my therapy sessions have benefited my therapists far more than myself (they get paid to be entertained), therefore I resolved to keep cash for them in my pocket. I am now wondering if hospitalization is my only option now, and then I truly wonder if it's an option at all after several prescription drugs proved to be either dangerous allergens or ineffective at maximum dosage. I guess what I wonder is what they (hospitals) actually can help anyone with, but also what problems make it worth volunteering to risk being kept in an unhealthy environment (indoors, no fresh air, people who are so depressing you're liable to grow a death wish when you weren't suicidal going in).  Are they really in the business of helping the patient, and if so, how do they really do this when their invariable actions are about protecting society from the patient? So far, I'm leaning toward the notion that hospitalization is good for some mental health problems, but it could be really bad for some.