RE: The Mental Illness Thread
May 28, 2015 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2015 at 12:49 pm by Faith No More.)
(May 28, 2015 at 12:14 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: I'm sorry if it's inappropriate to ask, but some mentioned being hospitalized and I wanted to ask what is the psychiatric ward like?
I heard some probably colorized stories about psych wards (around where I live only) and they haven't been pleasant, so I'm curious how much truth was in them
As far as I'm concerned, no questions are off the table.
It really depends on the hospitals, but I've come to the conclusion that the main reason psych. wards can make you feel better is that the conditions are so miserable inside that it makes you appreciate what you have on the outside. The walls are painted a depressing color and the environment is extremely sterile as not to rile up the patients. You have absolutely no control over your own actions. You are told where to go and what to do 24/7, and you are constantly being monitored as to how compliant you are to their commands, which is how you get out. The food is pretty much inedible.
Every once in a while, you'll be treated to a show when one of the other patients acts out and gets tossed in the foam room. If that doesn't work, they'll strap the patient to the floor of the foam room and shoot them up with tranquilizers. Most of the therapy you do is trivial, and you eventually get to the point where you'll do whatever it takes to get out. That first breath of fresh air after getting out is fantastic.
What exactly were the stories you heard? It's like I said, though, each hospital is different. I was put in one that was really nothing more than an old folk's home for people that didn't have real care.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
