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Originally Posted by starkind
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I've had five times now in my entire life been psychiatricly "hospitalized" tho the facilities weren't really hospitals.
Several of those where months long.
I'm not going to say I was wrongly imprisoned or whatever. And they where certainly not good times.
They all sucked. And the last time I didn't want to go part of that was causing me a great deal of stress. The others where for failed suicides.
These facilities could easily be improved and the Federal government and insurance institutions stands directly in the way of progress of this.
Idk. Maybe I'm an outlier. Because who's so bad at killing themselves that they survive it 4x? Idk. Last time was much less voluntary and more... like the police escorted me for safety reasons.
Really tho. It's pretty fucked up. However it's also necessary.
But if I was capable of it. I'd be a revolutionary. Instead of a stack of psychiatric case files and sucidiality.
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The ones you are forced to go to are always going to be worse than the ones you can only voluntarily go to
So, in my state, there are two kinds of psych hospitals: Public, and Private. The public ones are open to people without insurance. This means that they are full of chronically homeless people, people with really bad substance abuse, and people with sometimes severe psychosis. Fights are very common, as is females being sexually harassed. They can be a huge culture shock to anyone who hasn't been homeless themselves and seen these sorts of things first hand on a daily basis. Even seeing someone having a psychotic fit engaging in very bizarre behavior can be disturbing for some people
The public psych hospitals are the only hospitals in my state that accept involuntary people. These people are sent following a failed suicide attempt, or else sent there by family members, friends, or professionals within the mental health field who fill out forms detailing why the person is a danger to themselves or others due to their mental health (involuntary committals)
The private psych hospitals only accept voluntary people, no involuntary. And they only accept people with insurance. Some of them in my state offer equine therapy where they bring horses in you can care for, dog therapy where they bring in therapy dogs to play with, they have art therapy, music therapy, and a gym. The food is top notch
So whenever I am talking to someone who is a danger to themselves to the point where we would have to force them into treatment, we will usually implore them "please come to the private hospital, I do not want to have to send you to public one against your will"
08-04-2021, 10:44 PM
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