Onggg

Not only that but the box is full of strange ppl you don’t know that may make your mental state 10x worse!

@@ranchiestsauce nah fr and they always tryna start shit and agressive asf💀

I Can smell the indie game already

@Puppyllary Response at what? Not wanting to die? Plus there’s nothing wrong with needing help. Literally everyone needs help sometimes. Unless you live secluded in the woods you’ve gotten help too.

Until you get someone screaming 24/7

Or have that one person looking at you through the room door at two in the morning

:skull:

I REMEMBER THESE! I was in one for a week when I was 12 and now it’s been a few months since I left that 1.8 star rating place..

I think, if I went there, and after I got out, I would have severe paranoia that someone is watching me 😭👌

oh my god, i'm fifteen and i can't even begin to imagine having to go through that. i struggle w/ self harm and all that fun stuff but god that sounds like hell

​@@vanilladrizzlequeenIt is hell. Especially the juvenile places are extremely dehumanising. Please get help outside if possible - having it in your medical history will make people treat you differently, it will always be a lens filter. In my personal experience self harm in teens is really looked like it's " people who have no real problems acting out to get attention" instead of being treated as what it is - an outside manifestation of inner suffering eased by only way a person feels gets them any relief. You deserve help, you deserve patience, you deserve a medical professional who will listen and treat you like an autonomous human being, not a "problem" for your parents or being judged right out of the door as "entitled brat who knows nothing about the world". Some view self harm's seriousness upon severity of the physical damage almost as if completely oblivious to the fact that any amount means one is suffering beyond their ability to cope and any amount is way,way too much. It's as with eating disorders - some people don't believe they deserve help because they aren't thin or sick enough. It's bollocks. I'm 35 now and I hoped things changed ever since I was 12 and in that place but alas. I went through awful shit but being locked up in juvenile facility still is one of the most traumatic, dehumanising experiences of my life. I know there's people who have different experiences, and a lot depends on the place and staff, but I would consider it as last resort - place you go to to save you from hurting yourself. The best part is community support, but fortunately now one can find it outside. Please be kind to yourself. It may be tough to the point that it may seem hopeless, but you can weather that storm and come out victorious.

Man, not too long ago I was in a psych ward for an eval. That was like a prison cell. The only reason I was barely san was because my mom was in the same room as me and I had my stuffed animal with me. If I were in your position without Flower, my stuffed dog, I probably would have offed myself. I wish you the best. I hope you get the help you need.

@@moonstar3833 I'm alright several years removed, got some good professionals on my side once I got out. I'm glad you got to keep your stuffed animal, mine have always comforted me as well even into my 20's. I hope you're getting the support and love you deserve, kind stranger.

@@margodphd I told my parents I wanted to off myself at 13. I was stressed out to high hell and the pandemic was kicking my ass since I was so social in elementary school and isolation was not treating me well. When they said they were going to send me to a military school, I lost my shit, started bawling, and told them about how I wanted to do it, then they said they were going to send me to a psych ward, and when I freaked the fuck out at the prospect of being sent to one of these, they just brushed it off after I talked to some sort of psychologist person on the phone. Literally nothing changed. I could off myself just as easily as I could before. My dad literally left his whole ass gun safe unlocked at some point, but I was able to keep my mind off of things (music is the only thing keeping me from giving in to the thoughts that just pop into my brain 5-6 times a day :) ). I haven’t told them any of what I’m going through since it’ll get the same result and more than likely end up with me actually locked up in a mental hospital. It just felt like they didn’t care about what I was going through, and on top of that, it feels like none of my accomplishments are acknowledged. When school comes up, it’s only the 60/65% on that random English test I studied for, and not the consistent 90-100%s on my math tests I’ve been getting all year. It’s never anything positive, it’s solely the bad whenever I hear them talk about it. I’m just so damn tired of it all.

yea exactly I have been in a psych ward twice and the first time it was totally fine I was with someone else but he was really chill and he told me he was just depressed and stuff. But the second time I was sitting on my bed and my roommate came in like screaming and stuff and they had to take him out.

This. I stayed in an impatient facility to start the year. Was in there with dudes who had been in prison. The first day I arrived a man in my unit was bragging about being in prison for 8 years. (Thankfully he wasn’t my roommate). My roommate looked very scary and intimidating (tons of tattoos and in his 40’s) (I’m a scrawny 21 year old). My first night I barely slept, but I came to find out that my roommate was actually really nice and got along well.

...When I was in the psych ward, I accidentally angered someone. I was beating myself up mentally over it, and another patient said, "We're all in a psych ward. We are not doing our best."

The food alone is sad. I think I'd end up starving the entire time

Yeah I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s pretty rare for mentally healthy people to end up in this place.

nah the psych ward i went to when i almost offed myself i came out a new and much healthier and happier person, not everyone has the same experiences

​@@annabenedetti9699 please take your comment down. I understand where you're coming from but a lot of suicides happen because people feel like they can't get any help, and your comment really enforces that idea. It's some of the worst advice you could give to a suicidal person. I get that places like this aren't fun and a lot of times don't help at all, but a lot of people's lives have been saved because of places like this, so please, don't encourage that narrative :(

@@Princess_Maya_19its not. u get put in there if you mention anything about suicide or the urge to kill people to a therapist.

Oh man, I'm so sorry. I've been trying the psych ward almost 10 times, and I think the one I went to must have been one of the better ones, because they made it pretty nice. Like, it still sucked, but it was comfortable, and I felt cared for, not punished or mistreated. I wish you felt like you had a safe place to go when you need one. You deserve that at the bare minimum.

same but during my second hospitalization. i feel you there friend

I've been in once, and the only things I took away from the experience were these 1. Get better at hiding my issues. 2. If you're going to do it, do it right. One way or another, I will never be going back. I'm pretty sure murderers have more rights and dignity than psych patients.

Same, FUCK OCEANS!!!! (Oceans is a psych hospital)

@@formorian5 😔❤️‍🩹 I’m truly so sorry that you had the incredible courage to go there and all it did was let you down.

REAL

I get your point, but you showed that you dont know a lot about extreme forms of mental illness.

@@Plethorality You assume I don’t know anything about it. I know why someone would want to escape because I was forced to be there, they didn’t offer my therapy. Only gave me a diagnosis that when I got evalled, my person didn’t agree with. They just gave me some medication and lied to my family, didn’t care about me, and treated me more like a prisoner than someone who needed help.

​@@_0w3nu good?

​@@Plethoralitydid you just call bs on a former psych patient? Damn, that felt like home. Now I remember why we all wanted to leave so badly.

Mine said “red rum” above the bed.

​@@Seashellsbytheseashore21 damn lmao they ain't fucking around huh

I'm trying to figure out how they were allowed to have a writing implement in their bathroom.

@@Seashellsbytheseashore21 oh hell no 😭😭

@@nightmarefanatic1819 crayons

That’s because the system needs available, working hands.

I feel that. They don’t give a shit about you or your home life. Their job is to keep you alive “for now”

YES! THIS!!!! Your sister is completely correct!!!! The place I was at didn’t even have full length towels!!! The largest size towel for showering was MAYBEEE just maybe just about 2inches, and then legit maybe 9, 10? Inches in width…. And the certain was pretty much only half of a certain and it didn’t move, and we were allowed to close our doors!!!! There was no type of privacy at all….. and I get it I get that they have to constantly keep eyes on us and stuff to match sure we aren’t harming our or yk…. That jazz…. But stilll!!!! Give us SOME hospitality! 😫😭😭😭

Yes, because all of these suicide prevention measures mean they don't give a damn about their patients 🙄 the nurses do offer counseling as much as they can, but tbh, most people in psych wards have a mental illness. It's different from being sad. You can't talk them through or out of it. The best thing that can be done is to keep the patient from killing themselves so the doctors have the time they need to diagnose and find the right medications for the patient.

@@allisonlacy3004 damn I had a stroke reading all that

They do that to other hosp. Patients too....blood draws once every hour, all. Night. Long.

How the hell could you get rest

Dang, I can’t even bring my ADHD in there?

@@Amari_the_Artist fr

Booty juice threats????

"Booty Juice" is haldol and benadryl. Or at least it was in the psych hospital mom worked.

Was it you that came out of the psych ward? You said it was Dudes face that lit up! But you are Dude McDoodle!

That's so wholesome

This might just be my favorite story on the internet

Similar story with me. I was meeting my girlfriends family for the first time, they told me that the brother was difficult to talk to due to his m. health issues, completely unaware that I had the same issues. When we sat down to dinner her brother was really angry and volatile, making the room go all quiet. I asked him what meds he was on and he barked them at me, I told him that I used to be on same meds but changed to something else, he mouth dropped open and all of a sudden he was more happy and speaking softly, we ended up having an hour long conversation about our illnesses and meds. He considers me his best friend now.

@@natevic1867 aww this is so wholesome

Absolutely

IF you come out

Good point@@Therandomguy691

DEADASS THO MY TRIP GENUINELY MADE ME WANNA KMS MORE I WAS SO FINALLY HAPPY WHEN I GOT TO LEAVE

i saw like 4 ways i could kill myself in the box of secrets

The metal railing in the bathroom has a solid piece of metal eliminating the space one could use to hang something on.

​@auntjer7451 No offense. That description basically defeats the idea of a railing to *hang* towels on. If you mean the railing is built in a way to make hanging a person more difficult, sure?

@@RaiderAvian The railing being referred to is the one by the toilet to assist disabled people in getting on/off the toilet. At the facility I was at, the place to hang towels looked like an upward pointing, stiff, rubber nipple. With enough pressure, it would just bend.

@auntjer7451 Oh. I see. My mistake, and I appreciate the explanation. Would people with mobility disabilities be allowed to have a wheelchair or other equipment while in the psych ward

@@RaiderAvian The one I was at had an ADA bathroom, a shower chair available to use and they had walkers and wheelchairs available to use. They had a special accommodation for people with CPAP machines. I don’t know how it worked, but I know it was there.

Couldn't you strangle yourself with the arm holes left from cutting the arms off the hoodie?

I was just thinking about that!!

*throws the whole hoodie away*

Modern fashion

That's to make you look cool and tough

​@@che887 as calloused as a Vietnam veteran

What was "it"? Because it seems like the rest of the stuff is designed to prevent you from doing "it"

Prolly me... I used to tally how many days aswell and tag shit too

@@Paul-A01 just make it out of there and getting better??

@@Paul-A01 “you can do it” is encouragement telling the person that they can improve their mental health? Why’d your mind have to go there. Better still, why’d you have to let us know it went there.

they usually helped me. it was like a reset

They do.

Fr💀

Lol that's the point.

@@BlackSakura33 lmao ur username

Then you ain't in the depths... These ain't no issues.

I'm still dealing with the trauma of a brief psych stay 12 years ago. I don't think I will ever be the same. Seeing this shit with bright, happy music over it makes me sick.

​@@firemonster2218prison is worse?

​@@firemonster2218idk what prison you're going too but it must have been real lax if you think that's worse

@@AA-sw5pbtheir user is “fire monster” so I’m obligated to not believe them

And depending on the state, if you're not straight.

psych wards are for mentally unstable people though. You’re acting like depression is equivalent to being crazy

⁠@@incognitopotato.yea, very ironic..

proves that just because someone can memorize a huge number of books doesn't mean they're smart

🤦🏻‍♀️

😂

When using the tools, you are under supervision and are doing activities that are meant to keep your mind occupied. When you are alone, thats when most people feel the most motivated to die because thats when the intrusive thoughts come about. Most people also dont want to harm themselves in the immediate vacinity of others because they fear they would be a burden. Obviously, this isnt the case for everyone, but just like in prisons, certain people are or arent allowed to use or do certain things like using metal tools. Im not defending mental institutions, but im explaining their thought process, and personally, i think they do a lot of harm, but the goal is to reduce harm, and there have been more incidence rates of people hanging themselves than people killing themselves while supervised.

Sorry, what…? 🤨

Because of one asshole, all nurses are evil, got it.

Well if the choice is an apple or that fucking sandwich, i don’t blame him. No wonder they have to protect these poor people from themselves. Imagine. That’s your lunch.

Maybe she should get admitted, God damn.

Sounds about right. Hospital staff hate the people they take care of

Glad you are doing better🙏my daughter was in for 2 weeks and not one time I got a kind word from staff.Almost 2 weeks they finally allowed me to visit and the place was horrible, jail like no compassion and I was worry for my daughter.Thanked God she is out and doing better.God bless💜

U guys good?

The fact that this nurse actually thinks this is a fun video tells me everything I need to know. Thanks for the trauma memory punching me in the face, former nurse asshole.

Because they’re not… And it being that obvious to everyone should tell you something. Being there normal minded would be like prison (horrible enough) but imagine wanting to kill yourself and then being admitted there. There’s no place you’d want to kill yourself more at than these institutions. And some people say it’s not like the sanatoriums from a hundred years ago😂I’d argue it’s worse. It’s also a vicious cycle if you’ve been forcefully admitted once it sets you up to end up there again and again. Those are the only people I can actually feel happy for when they kill themselves because I’m glad they don’t have to suffer any longer ending up in these hell holes over and over again. Being able to end it is the last bit of autonomy you have. Those places are just a way of society criminalizing suicide to be honest instead of helping they sentence you to these torture prisons where you’re told you have to feel/think normal to get out of. No wonder people act like it and will never feel like they can talk honestly about their feelings ever again

I mean they did say 'the strings on MY hoodie.

The fact this is a western one. Imagine how the eastern European ones look 😬😬

I keep having these videos pop up on my fyp and idk what to do bc they trigger my ptsd and I freeze up

Yeah I never understood how putting someone in a white room with nothing to entertain themselves is supposed to help someone who's just feeling suicidal

@@ShellyTheSeal Honestly, the reason I haven’t told anyone about my suicidal ideation is because I know it would just end up making my life worse.

i didn’t want to die until i was in there it got so much worse

I was in one for about 8 days at the very start of the pandemic. Fun stuff. Very memorable moments. 💖 Nah but in all seriousness the nurses could tell I was "with it" so they straight up told me what it takes to get out: Take the meds, admit to whatever the doctors think you're there for, and have a place to go. Don't cause problems. Stay calm no matter what. Most of the people I saw there were there due to serious mental health issues but also because they had nowhere else to go. My mom came to visit me every day and the women I was in there with would all walk by the window of the visitor's room and peek in all shyly just for a glimpse of my mom because I talked about her quite a bit and I don't think a lot of them knew what that looked or felt like. It's been two years and I still think about that. And all of those women with all those different stories and backgrounds.

​@@leafyveins4985 I don't know you but I love your vibe 🖤 I hope you're doing better than you were at the beginning of the pandemic, but if not, I hope you continue to fight for your peace 🖤 Stay safe out there 🖤

E X A C L Y

And this is where i went from having SI to actively trying to off myself

They probably saw you voted Democrat. Makes sense.

@@Tony-hn8qy always have to make it political huh 🙄

​@@Tony-hn8qy Bro shut up this isn't about politics

Omg I'm so sorry :( I had horrible experiences at psych wards. It's horrible how expensive they are, just to make us feel worse

I'm sorry is this an American thing? Like ims ure we have physc wards in the uk and stuff just you wouldn't be put in one during school? I just got to talk to the pastoral coordinator and then a NHS nurse would come into school once a week to talk to you and stuff

I’m so sorry… that must have been the worst. In my experience, I think mental health is best fixed by warmth and friendship, not being treated like a monster.

Wait how did you do that

I also went to a pych ward as well, and all they did was stick me in talking groups with people that had worse issues than I did, and didn't even help me with my own issues, talking about it to others isn't always gonna make it better. . .

Not rlly but alr

well i mean i dont think it makes people crazy but maybe idk

@@Savannah-qb4bb it doesn’t.

It can, been there. It depends in each one. But it's kind of like prison when it comes to the rights u have and u can't go outside and you javelin to stay with ppl u don't know and share the bathroom and rooms with strangers. It can mess with u and make u worse

I think I would rather go to a North Korean forced labor camp than any psych ward

I feel like they should make separate mental health wards specifically for people who don’t have severe mental illness where they act erratically, very aggressive, etc. I can’t imagine being suicidal and getting locked up in a ward where other people are screaming, banging walls/doors, threatening to stab others, etc. that would just make you feel worse.

​@@jav7899they do sometimes, but most often it's just a different section of the same ward.

@@jav7899 We used to, but after 1970's people thought they were cruel and not PC. So we just got rid of them and let all the psychos loose and free to roam the cities. Now we just call them homeless people.

​@@jav7899There's a concept like that in Germany. We have different stages of psych ward, from 1 to 5 I believe, but I'm not sure. 1 is essentially you're not able to function in normal life but no danger to yourself or others and 5 is 'you're so suicidal and/or aggressive you essentially need a constant guard around you'. Neither is much good though, because they're understaffed as hell and no one has the time to actually help you. Had a friend with a dissociative disorder who was in 3 and during an episode, which usually involved shaking and banging her head like crazy, all the nurse could do was put a pillow under her head and rush off, because there was already another emergency around the corner. Another friend learned how to lie to therapists very well, just so he could pretend he got better to get the fuck out of there. It's not a particularly good system.

@@ThePsycoScoutif you knew anything about psych wards youd know how cruel they were

bro that is wild. I believe it though

How was it in there? I’m curious :D

Are either of them about freedom?

@@thoroughlyunoriginalname no but you shouldnt put someone in jail for being mentally ill.

Let’s be honest, there are no differences

Same but I just didn’t bring my hoodies just sweatshirts

It's just so you don't suffocate yourself

Ours didn’t even have hoodies, but we were in Florida so I guess we didn’t need them. I was still cold and asked for lots of blankets.

Yeah I wasn't allowing them to cut mine... It was a hoodie for my youngest son who was playing soccer. I literally chose to freeze.

@@unknown_pineapple1110 same just sweatshirts no hoodies

my neice got sent to one just before Christmas and called it that when they got out

My ex called it the “grippy sock hotel” and this was after my “luxurious trip” there… I cried laughing

That is exactly what it is. Or grippy sock vacation. Your choice.

​@Eragon, Dragonrider I work in mental health and someone referred to it as a "free grippy sock vacation" 😂

According to some of the patients I met there, jail was preferable in a number of ways

The amount of times I have lied to doctors just to stay out of grippy sock jail is painful

yeah no kidding it is awful in there, no matter how bad things get i dont think i ever wanna go back in one

Sounds weird that you were able to "act" your depression away only for a short term goal.

@@dmwanderer9454 masking a mental illness isn’t something new😂

@@rkerry01 Yeah I do it too. My point was there's no reason to "fall back in" if you can just act your depression away. Just go "oh I'm depressed again. Time to act"

No you wouldn't.

@@sethravillaofnisan9998 these little tricks aint gonna stop my bud

If you think that's bad go read up on the stories of people who still try and like three of the biggest dudes you've ever seen hold you down to a bed put you in a shirt you can't take off and hold you tighter than a bear hug and then they strap you down to a table and then inject you with a bunch of medications that keep you basically unconscious for 12 hours

Ive been to a psych ward and I assure you, no it doesnt come after

Don't worry the help never comes. America's just a prison state. Known multiple people who gave gone there. It's useless they just feel worse after being locked in a cell for weeks

Keeping people from killing themselves IS helping them. They will understand later.

This literally helps people, tf you on about

Real

Same

word

As someone who was in a psych ward lil over a week ago, you chose correctly. It was a hell that I don't wish on anyone

Absolutely correct. Biggest mistake ever is getting committed. That was so much worse than the attempt. Never going back.

Only in America

Don't pay it. Let that shit go to collections.

​@@justaweeb14688 nope, literally most places in the world...and, a lot of countries don't even have such facilities, they just put you in jail

@@tevarinvagabond1192 source

Bro i'm still struggling with a bill from getting baker acted, and it didn't even help me, honestly just fucked up my whole life, work, school, social shit, everything

MINE TOO! It's not like I'm su¡cidal, my brain just looks at everything like a puzzle.

@@LoveLee_Dreamer yep. My brain is like ‘A challenge? Finally- a worthy opponent! Our battle shall be legendary!’

I once was in a closed psych ward because of su!cidal and selfh@rm thoughts (idk why they put me there, I was literally talking to them on the open ward when I was really struggling) and in there, my both of these thoughts got so much worse and my brain thought about ways to do those things all the time. Gladly I was there for just 2 weeks but I was never before as bad as I was in there

"Gouge your eyes out, keep digging till you die" is immediately what I thought for a moment.

My thought was: use the sleeves of the hoodie to hang yourself

Then why comment at all? It's like saying "I know where Hitler is hiding.. But I'm not gonna tell you 😏"

Yup. HOT. GARBAGE.

I relate to that. I got out quick that way.

Psych wards are horrible, my friend has been to one. It did help him, but it also changed him. He might be happier now, but for about 2 weeks after coming back he wouldn’t leave his room or talk to anyone.

Every feature in that room was put there as the result of a lawsuit. Some person used the TP roll to harm themselves, now everyone has their TP in a hole in the wall. Over many years the conditions in the room incrementally get worse and worse, as next of kin sue the place into oblivion. Lawyers convince some judge that the hospital is at fault that someone went out the window, even though they were locked, and the hospital should have known patients can pick the locks, and of course the only reasonable option is to make a window so small that no human being could conceivably squeeze through. So then everyone's window gets reduced to a 6 x 6 in square. And this is what passes for patient care and due diligence. We had a case in my neck of the woods, where a dog got off-leash and was running down the street. The dog approached a mental health patient outside her outpatient program with her therapy dog. The off leash dog says hello. No biting or aggression or barking, but he's jumping around, excited, saying hello to the therapy dog, and the owner is initially nowhere in sight. After a minute the owner comes and retrieves the off-leash dog. The patient sued the owner and said that this occasion with the off-leash dog somehow permanently changed her therapy dog. She said the therapy dog was never the same afterwards. She ended up settling with this guy's insurance for $95,000 , over how her therapy dog was forever changed by the off-leash menace. Totally bizarre.

​@@giggitygooz3198i just lied at the initial meeting💀

Fr

@@meesha6723 like bro if ur suicidal this shit will make it way worse. if you try telling them how shitty it is they will say you have even more problems and wont give a single fuck about you.

prison has more freedom, at least they get to go outside and talk to people and have decent clothes

@@wAfton83 fr

​@@wAfton83 bro knows nothing about American prisons 💀 they are quite literally subject to slave labor

Too bad you're not in Florida. You could go to Shands and ask to be sent to the mental health part. It's a much nicer place and the people are friendly.

"I refused all help, and made my situation worse, then blamed the people trying to help me."

You're extremely insensitive and misunderstanding my point if this is how you react to this. You're also assuming a lot. I went to the ward WILLINGLY because i KNEW i needed help. I'd just come out of an abusive ass household with religious trauma, sexual trauma, and almost no life experience. I was mentally ill and had been seeking help since college (2-3 years prior). I'd been with therapists and psychs before i had to flee my bio family and therefore leave my prior resources, and they were all mostly fine. I'd been trying to get in with a therapist and psych in my new place so i could get on meds and start working on my issues, but was being pushed back in the system. I had a bad night and hurt myself-- not the first time. My partner called a hotline and was told either bring me in or the cops would come get me. I went willingly, because i thought i was going to get to talk to someone, be seen off, and get hooked up with a therapist while there. I was shoved in a white room, told to stop crying, lied to about my partner "leaving" me there (they'd been told to leave after we'd been separated), and laughed at when i asked if i had a choice of whether or not to sign papers allowing treatment. There was nothing to do, no privacy, and no individual therapy. I was also kept 1-2 days longer than i was supposed to be kept because "they wanted to make sure my insurance went through," not because they thought i needed help. I have since gotten back on medication and seen therapists after pushing and pushing for months/years for some of it just to get into the system. And i did that ON MY OWN. The hospital didn't help with any of it. The hospital left me with no resources after they dumped me back in the same situation i'd been plucked from-- no financial advice for the near homelessness, no therapist appointments, no psych recommendations. I still wake up screaming with nightmares that i'm being dragged back there. My partner still has to shake me awake every couple of months. I never said therapists are bad, i never said psychs were bad. Psych WARDS are bad. They are fundamentally flawed because they aren't designed to help sufferers get better, they're designed to hold us so we don't cause problems, nevermind if it helps us or makes us worse. The staff is sorely underpaid, the place itself is understocked and underserved, the staff is not allowed to spend proper time with the patients, and malpractice is unfortunately extremely high. Our entire lives get handed over to doctors who see us for MAYBE 20 minutes a week if we're lucky. The worst part? I got off easy. A friend of mind was sexually harassed and almost assaulted while in a ward. Another friend was forced into a room with their abusive father to "help mend the situation" during a stay. Crisis wards CAN be a little better-- my partner stayed in one and it helped them. That was where i was SUPPOSED to go. But they were closed when i had my crisis, so i was taken to a hospital instead. Years later, after a lot more therapy and on proper medication, i can honestly say that my life would be better if i had not been taken to that hospital. Think about what you say before you say it.@@wittyithink9109

I'm glad there's at least some good places. My partner went to a crisis center and it was apparently lovely. But, crisis centers are also WAY different than hospitals. x.x Sadly, tho, florida isn't a safe zone for me. I used to live there. I'm trans, and a lot of the laws their passing could get me in harm's way even in a hospital, which is extremely unfortunate for anyone else who's trans there ;; .@@Psilomuscimol

Dude you are speaking out of my soul I had similar issues (upcoming BPD ) I spend more than 1,5 years in different facilities and I was more suicidal in hospitals, because it's crazy, you are not even threated like a person and you have zero human rights or stability (sorry for my English it's not my first language)

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arguably less freedoms than a prison

😢 I tried to put myself into foster care multiple times, so I get it

damn maybe i should do this, my home life sucks too

I’m sorry

I tried to put myself in a ED recovery, I feel you so much

@@alan057 like a recovery place? Hope you were successful… people seeking recovery deserve support 💛

For everyone, or just the patients with a tendency to harm? What was up with the toiletries thing?

@@SiiriCressey I think the toiletries thing would be do that you couldn’t consume them & have that consumption hurt you

@@SiiriCressey For everyone. I'm guessing someone ingested something from the toiletries list and got sick or something. They told me everything was for a reason.

@@Spectator79 Jeez. It sounds like that's at least as much for the convenience of the staff as for the safety of the patients. Why bother having to only keep potentially dangerous stuff away from people who are likely to/have used it to hurt themselves or others when you can just not let anyone have any?

@@Spectator79 why no shoes too? Wtf do you wear then? Just the grippy socks?

I want the story😂😂😂

Feel horrible it got that far

U should go back

​@@speedygee6396it just seems you have never had a hard time in your life. If you did, you wouldn't even consider saying this

And we still need more places like this open

Oh uhhh that's a "fun" story

That’s so….

There were no curtains on our showers, no curtain rods the shower head didn’t even come out of the wall it was just 3 holes in a knob thing so you couldn’t tie anything to a pipe, they checked in on you every 5 minutes while you showered by knocking on the non-locking handleless door and they gave you hand towel the size of a napkin to dry off with

@xX_RonaldReagan_Xx okay now that's just messed up dude

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Just buy the socks already they are grippy so you don't off yourself.

​@@spazzypotato8325 💀

New motto for socks: "Why unexist yourself, you have grippies for your grippers."

psychiatrist moment

When you deal with this shit everyday, yep you find humour where you can. Also gotta pay the bills

That there, is not healthy my guy/gal/them guy? (What’s the non binary guy term? I’m rlly trying here)

idk where you live but usually they wont do that, you can even just tell them that youre having suicidal thoughts but arent planning on doing it, thats atleast what i do so i dont end up at a psych ward again

@@haydenwestfall8798I just say guy for everybody tbh😭

I know what you mean, I have some really bad problems that I’ve had my entire life and I haven’t told anyone. If I told my therapist I know I’d get sent straight to a mental hospital.

@@haydenwestfall8798 Dude, probably?

They are doctors. Not your therapists, it’s not on them to fix your problems, they’re concern is to keep you safe. That is the number one priority. They’re job is to keep you healthy and alive not fix everything wrong in your life.

Y liking ur own comment@@user-nf8ld9py6p

​@@user-nf8ld9py6pwhat you have described is not a doctor. It is a prison guard.

Cringe comment. Delete this.

Doctors. They didn’t make the system. Name calling isn’t the answer. And does it keep you alive? Yes. So they’ve done their job.@@Ryzard

Oh yeah I forgot about those. The door needs to be open. You likely have a roommate. Them walking into your room, inspecting you sleep every quarter hour is a lot. I didn't get much sleep the first few nights.

Yup because the nurses need to make sure you are still breathing and not actively hurting yourself or someone else. Unfortunately there are a lot of strict rules and protocols because no one wants any patients to die a preventable death. I've been in psych wards many times before and I know it's scary uncomfortable and hard. But I also understand that if the staff weren't being constantly vigilant a person can end up dead before they get the chance to heal.

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They put me in a residential treatment facility. They shined a flash light into the room every 15 minutes. All the doors were locked.

Once they find out people strangle themselves with the sleeves it's bye bye comfort 😭

@@Pizza_stix true true next thing you know they’re keeping them un clothed lmao

Oh trust me, it did that to my brain too. Fuckers got solutions to everything lmao

I second this!

THat happened to the majority of the people that went to the hospital at the time I did lol. We all still found a way to self harm there.

Oh, same here.

@@lewmie179 same with me the plastic bracelet I was given it off folded it to make it harder and then proceeded to use it to cut myself with

That's why I fought like hell when they tried to section me through legal threats and being willing to demonstrate my sanity in a court room.

Wow sounds too familiar

Sounds like skill issues

maybe stop masking

@@mellissamercado7904 ….. you do realize it’s not a choice right? It happens naturally. It’s a response I have when I’m in a new place full of strangers and I feel unsafe.

Wow helping people not kill themselves. Might as well graffiti on the wall. Listen if you wanted to kill yourself that bad you would have done it the first time but now you're here and you're not even going to get the chance to

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Gen z has too many mental issues

I don’t think you understand the purpose of a psych ward

They don't wonder about why patients use profanity. The reason's usually plainly obvious. But staff have a moral and legal duty to follow and will do it in spite of the cursing.

The ones in the ward have a full plate on the bottom so it isn't the normal open bar but they do have to have them for safety of those with physical disabilities to use the toilet safely. That is really sad that she didn't get the help she needed 😔

Doorknob is actually a classic. Unfortunately.

That's disturbing... God help us all

When you need to go, you need to go 😢

When dealing with extreme degrees of mental illness, being forcefully kept alive is absolute hell. I will never understand why society locks people up trying to escape their own psychological hell. I am the daughter of a schizophrenic father and often wonder if it was selfish asking him to stay.

They use medical restraints to eliminate that sort of behaviour these days 😐

The last time I was in one there was a guy who kept running around naked praising Jesus while holding rosary beads. They didn't want to give them to him because obvious danger but he was getting so combative and violent that they told him he had to calm do n and get dressed. First half of that worked. They then tried multiple times to reclaim the he beads and we all had to be locked into a counseling room because security was coming as the staff couldn't controll him.

@@nellhandebo5962 they don't. I was in a mental hospital last year. They don't use restraints for that. The patients who are there for suicide attempts only do it because they're bored with nothing to do. They can't do anything. They took away the radios because someone tried to swallow a battery.

@@dontwakethedeadp.jankey9592 they took my jewelry and it broke in their storage. One of my gloves got lost and they lost my birth control. I'm trans and need it. Without birth control, I'm extremely violent on my period.

When I did as in-nobody sang or banged. It would have made it more human-focused with some type of music but alas there was none of that.

This

What were you doing in a psych ward during then? Was it part of nursing school or something else?

@@kingman-fm4dq It was my psych rotation for nursing school. Believe me, being in that particular unit was my last choice.

EXACTLY. Psych wards are pretty much just prison. Only thing they succeed in doing is making you feel terrible for having thoughts or attempting. Don't know why they think locking you in a room with no entertainment (one I went didn't let you have your phone or any other device. There was a TV but unless your pleasure was watching Law & Order on mute...) will improve your mental state. I left feeling worse and more wary of seeking getting help lest I be forced to go back

Your pfp explains your behavior

that’s how mine was. we’d sometimes get to use rubber pens or playing cards, though. but it was so boring, i wanted to rip my hair out. i lied during the check-ins because i wanted to get out asap, i felt much happier when i was at home.

it was terrible, i hated being punished for being depressed. i wasn’t even suicidal but nobody listened to me and my rights were basically taken away it was horrific being trapped in there with nothing and all those other people… this one girl had chronic seizures and we were talking and she just collapsed and i had to scream and beg for the nurses to even help… it was awful.

Talk to others? My idea of hell right there, talking to other people is dangerous, terrifying and leaves me absolutely drained even in the short term

hi! i was put in a pysch ward involuntarily! do not recommend :)

"We are not forcing you to go but if you don't, we're going to send you to the "closed station" where everything is worse 🙂"

@@vivi-ws9yl deadass stfg

@@boredtiredandsad3197 that’s weird cus I went in voluntary last year for about two weeks and they kept asking me if I wanted to go but I love psych wards and schedules and stuff like that so I got them to just keep me there, I eventually left when all my friends left

Jail is much better than this trust me

Wait, what??

Star Platinum real????

Hey! Been in that situation myself! Except mine turned into 5 days because the doctor wasn't there my first day or the 3rd day to discharge me. So I had to wait 2 extra days until the doctor decided I was important enough for his time to let me out of the prison that psych wards truly are. My psychiatrist I've seen regularly on a set schedule for the last 13 years was NOT very happy with that doctor and he is now he's had his medical license revoked due to Medicare fraud. The mental health field is just full of great people who truly care. 😐😐😐

oh I wish then maybe I could finally get committed :D

How did you get free and stay free😢

Exactly this happened to me. I was stuck there for a month

@@Mind_of_a_Very_Strange_Man Same here. Weekends and holidays don’t count towards your time, so the 3 days easily turns into 5 or 6 if you go on a holiday weekend.

Long warm showers used to be something I did to relax and calm down. Tried that in the psych ward and they literally just let themselves in, 3 nurses with gloves on ready to haul me to the quiet room, because they thought I was in there for a suspicious amount of time. They claim they knocked first, but if they did, I sure as hell didn't hear it. Thankfully, I was out of the shower with clothes on brushing my teeth at that point, so at least I had that much privacy.

@cassius5692 yeah I had my blood tested and was struggling to get clothes on because of the needle in my hand si they knocked and asked if I was alright. When I explained they told me to not take to long

How to unalive in a psych ward: 1) Pretend you're okay 2) Get let out from heII 3) Unalive

that happens to me at school

"JESUS F--KING CHRIST MARTHA I AM JUST TAKING A SHIT!"