Things in a psych ward that just make sense Pt. 2
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The trouble with the heavy chairs is if the patient is strong enough to pick it up, you're fucked
👍🏼😂
They are only 40 pounds bro you could sling that shit across the room
I'm 6 3 and had an easy time squatting even the 90 pound solid chairs honestly more dangerous.
They don't feed psych patients, so they won't have the strength to throw the chair anyway. Food is too risky to give since they can choke, or things like forks are super dangerous.
@@invaliduserist I've been in the mental hospital 4 times and every time they feed us more than I eat even outside.
“If you have friends” that cut deep man
Yeah, that is a low blow
I felt the exact same… 😢
I mean, I don't think it was meant to be mean
There should be an organization for sending people without friends little pick me ups. Heck, even the people with friends. I'm sure anyone in that situation could use it.
@@OpoOnTheGo thats a really good idea man
They forgot to mention the extra trauma you’ll leave with bc staff mistreats you 💀
steve wants to glorify our abuse anyway. he probably wants more people to hurt themselves
Yup. It's horrible. It's a place that's supposed to help us, but the they don't treat us as people a lot of the time. Do things that bring back memories and trauma with absolutely no care.
I remember when they had "skin check" where they'd check you for scars and etc, I had to strip naked and stuff. Didn't even ask if I had past traumas so they could handle it better. I refused to take my underwear off and I kept my chest covered. They forced me to turn around and ripped my underwear down to check my privates.. Most disgusting and disturbing experience bc I had gone through r*pe in the past.
@@GooberBugOFFoh my god…I’m so sorry
I got into it with a nurse at the last one I was at
@@GooberBugOFFtrue. I am actually more suicidal than before I went into the psych ward. If I ever go back to one I’m ending myself, in the psych ward.
"Heavy chairs"
The 6'2 230lb man they just locked in the room:
Yep, we had ones even heavier than that but I could lift them and hurt someone if I wanted to and I was just an average strength 5'10" dude.
@@Pineapple-co6feyea i was thinkin grown men kan pick up grown woman n that chair wasnt as much as a grown woman
That's me lol. Was coming to the comment section to comment about that
For real if it isn't a solid tungsten chair they're probably never going to be able to make it heavy enough to stop someone with decent strength from picking it up
Probably should just attach it to the ground if they don't want them being thrown
I was just thinking about this. What constitutes heavy? I'm a 255 lb human being who lifts weights. I'm fairly certain even a 50 lb chair could be wielded at least dangerously. I want to know how heavy they are
The problem in psych wards is having to “pretend” to be “normal” to get discharged. Worst day of my life.
Artificially making my mind calm with the stupid meds I have to take
Nah, one of the places I was at would just forcibly make you leave. I was there for 3 weeks, and one day a nurse called for me from one of the rooms, and when I went out, they had all my stuff packed and told me if I didn't leave they would call the police, so I had to go, despite not being ready :/
@@sassyotter6damn
exactly and i lied to try and be an outpatient but i ended up an inpatient and forced
@@sassyotter6wtf. Surely that shouldn't be allowed
The worst thing in a psych ward is the people who are crazier than you are, and that includes the staff.
Aquaintence of mine was an intern in a psych ward a few years back.
His words:"The difference between the inmates and the staff, is simple: the staff has the keys."
Yup! The room where I stayed, nobody else wanted to be in. (Room 112, that's the Dutch equivalent for the American 911.) When I asked why that was, I actually already knew the answer... Multiple people committed suicide in there. 🙄😐 K.x.
Yup! K.x.
I would say that is the best thing about the psych ward
My friend was in a psych ward because this ass hole convinced people my friend was going insane and my friends roommate tried to suffocate them in their sleep at the psych ward
I’d rather die in the most violent way possible than go to a psych ward again.
Same!
Absolutely same.
Same
Not same but only because I put myself in dangerous situations
Same ngl. Only thing I got out of it was a reminder that if I’m gonna try to off myself again, I’d better do a better job :’^) gave me ptsd with medical settings and now I’m afraid of hospitals and doctors entirely.
the psych ward: where you learn never to talk about your feelings again.
this comment i can throw my weight behind
Exactly
real
On the kids/teens wards, 100%. Silence is golden. The adult wards are WAY more chill, you can actually talk about stuff without worrying about getting punished.
Never do
As someone who was in a psych ward in 7th grade, another classic staple is the kids who don’t deserve to be there. Like there were obviously the teenagers and pre-teens like me who had done something to get committed, but there were also kids as young as seven who were on their tenth or fifteenth stay because their parents didn’t want to deal with their behavioral issues
I’m genuinely just asking cause I’m curious and don’t know Jack shit about this, but what even gets you in a psych ward?
@@ImGonnaShitYourPants I knew someone who went to a psych ward after threatening to commit suicide
@@ImGonnaShitYourPantsyou get admitted to one if you are a danger to yourself or others
Yeah when I was there a 10 year old came in and she was perfectly fine, well- fine enough to not be in a psych ward
That's so young! How awful!
The worst thing about a psych ward is that it's not a mental health ward, it's a "let's keep you physically alive in a world you hate" ward.
It's a lot better than being a selfish asshole who doesn't care about anyone but themselves
True
It's pretty much other people's job to stop you from killing yourself if they can, at least then you have a chance to enjoy what's left of your life instead of going straight to infinite nothingness or hell
And what are they supposed to do? Let you die? If your life only bothered you, it would be perfect. But it affects more people. Also, suic1dal ideation can be cured. If it was proven not, then we'd leave you alone👍
And yes, psych wards have a lot of problems (Not all though) But what needs to be fixed are those problems, NOT their purpose.
In the good old days you didn't have to try to kill yourself, they were taking care of that themselves for you.
The best thing about a psych ward is the ones who are absolutely insane, but still manage to be kind. Even if they don't know what's going on, they still take the time to be friendly.
i think it’s because we all understand we’re going through something and we’re kinda going through it together
People who have struggled have the most understanding.
yeah! my aunt does not remember her name. But she is friendly and always says please and thank you still. (But sometimes she gets too bad and gets really angry but that's not her fault :( )
always visit her when she is not in that state of mind and acts normal (but does not know what's going on who I am or who she is... but we talk and she says "Oh I know I loved you when I knew who you are. Thank you for coming." I always check if workers there are nice to her. She says she thinks nobody hits her but she was not sure because she forgets but she was okay with showing me if she has bruises or not... I heard in some places worked can even hit patients 😭😭 and they get sued for that when its discovered!
She has no bruises but she feels lonely there... but she can get aggressive when she loses herself to the illness :( so cant visit her at those times
my psych ward roomie had schizophrenia and literally could not do anything without sound constantly playing in the background because she said the voices in her head would talk to her. but when she had the chance, she would talk about seeing her 2 kids and getting her life together if she ever got out. she wished me the best of luck after i got out too. the kindest woman i’ve ever met tbh.
The patients (except for one who got her own room bc she was so violent) were, without fail, kinder and more supportive than the staff.
It's like an environment designed to make you as angry as fucking possible.
Can confirm I slept like the entire time to pass time didn't have to do any therapy and was out in 5 days
@@clintonr2740 they let you sleep during the day?? 😭 man I was fucking forbidden from napping when I went there
Being angry is better than not being alive imo
@@littlelionman05how about let’s ask why you were there?!
@@Crazy_Chriz how about you mind your own business?
My psych ward clearly didn't have heavy chairs bc another patient tried to throw a chair at me. She was there bc she tried to run away from home. She tried to throw a chair at me because I asked her to stop banging on a wall (she was hungry, the nurses were literally just watching it happen and I think she was just trying to be funny) because I had a migraine.
U can get throw in a PSYCH WARD for running away?
@@Cheyenne328 theres alot of things you can be in there for. Sometimes for things that aren't too serious
@@Cheyenne328 “run away” is just the top layer and short summary of why she was there
Even with the heavy chairs it doesnt stop people from throwing them. In my room in a psych facility I had my own bathroom that had a big heavy laminate door, nearly 2 inches thick. Someone who was in that room before me took that big heavy chair, and decided to smash it against the bathroom door. Not once or twice, there where HUNDREDS of little chips out of the laminate from the corner of the leg of the chair being smashed against it. So much rage, so much pain... being in that room really grated on my nerves. I got very depressed.
@@Cheyenne328 there’s more to the story than that, notice you skipped the banging their head part. Btw pretty common practice is to let them bang their head I can’t remember why but the most you can do is put a pillow there and talk therapeutically.
Asylums- not a place for happiness, just a heavy security prison disguised as a friendly place.
most realist thing i’ve seen today
I couldn't agree more
True statement my guy! Most psych wards are revenue farms. Keep the livestock sedated and complacent and bill the state for a couple grand per head. When I was in they kept me so medicated my blood went toxic and I started showing Parkinson's symptoms. Of course they took me to a sister hospital that diagnosed copper poisoning from the water supply. Besides that being a major health code violation if it's actually possible, but I NEVER drank the water there. I drank juice, milk, or something from the vending machine, but not the water that I supposedly got poisoned from. Fun fact, they never did anything about the allegedly copper water lines that were leeching into the water
Y’know the funny thing is, you’re right, my parents have described prison (dad) and a psych ward (mom) in incredibly similar ways, pretty sure the only difference is that you know what’s in the food in psych wards and the guards leave you alone after a while in prison
i don’t have friends 😢
staying in a psych ward was 10x more traumatic than what actually put me in there.
😂❤yep
That seems to be true for most people but for me it was okay, my paranoia led me to leave after 6 days because I thought they were trying to lock me away. I thought the government was behind my internment. The food was nice and the nurse was cute. I even had nicotine gums to cope with withdrawal.
@Rae of Sunshine that sounds like hell I hope you're doing well after that
Same. I have ptsd from the ward
Yea it was I hated that shit.
left the psych with more trauma i walked in with, never again 💀💀
same. if anything, i came out even worse
Psych wards and nursing homes are absolutely depressing to be in. Its really hard for a patient to actually get better when the staff clearly don't care about the individuals. Patients are neglected all the time and its disgusting
Especially since many are unable to contact family/friends while in there (because they take your phone and stuff.) Which I think is the most atrociously part of it all. If you're going to take away their personal property, there should absolutely be easily accessible and available (and monitored) other methods for patients to talk to family and friends. Outside support systems are a huge part of recovery and like, y'know, not coming back.
yeah i’ve been planning to commit arson at this place called Vive adolescent care
They don't get paid enough to give a shit
i wish nurses cared but on the wages they get paid id find it hard to care either
@@salemcrow5078upp when i was 14/15 i was admitted to a mental hospital for an eating disorder and you had to “earn” time for the phone to call any family and friends . you got at most 15 minutes a day and if you didn’t earn it then 0. just horrible. i was so young then too. i can’t help but think i would have just been better off i had never been admitted, because while it did help me deal with my eating disorder, it caused me lasting trauma.
The psych ward I was in had paper sheets, beds bolted to the floor and furniture so heavy you couldn’t move it let alone lift it. No strings in your pants or shoes, no door knobs, just downward facing grab handles and coverings over all of the glass so you couldn’t break it and cut yourself. The best week of my life was getting the help I didn’t know I needed. The people that worked with me in that Veterans Affairs Hospital were the greatest I’ve ever met.
Edited to say: Thanks for the love and understanding. You’re a great group of people for liking this and sharing your own stories. I deeply appreciate you all.
I don't believe these people with phones are actual patients
@@valeforedarkSome psych wards allow phones, most don’t
@@valeforedark in New York it's considered taking away a right. If you misuse the phone (calling non stop) it can be taken away with proper documentación and 2 witness.
You got lucky my friend I'm happy for you most of the places don't really care if you get help or open up. They just barely do their jobs. They don't really care about you at all I know the last one I was in the doctor came in and talked to me for literally 2 seconds asked me 1 question that was it. I was out in 3 days and I almost cut my entire hand off. I guess even after that they thought after 3 days I was perfectly fine and healthy and ready to go home lol go figure huh
@@valeforedark My youngest sister has been in a few for a variety of issues. Some of them allowed phones on a limited basis while others didn't.
Now, if only psych-wards had doctors that listen to their patients, or actually treated us as humans.
Some do
@@cassicarrasco700 then I am extremely jealous.
Dude I’m gonna eat the fucking toothpaste in the ward who’s gonna stop me I’ve eaten hand sanitizer I can manage toothpaste
@@casuals.3.19
W-why..?
Bro fr. I remember I kept asking for any alternatives for places to go instead of straight home (literally the reason I was hospitalized 99% of the time) and they just sent me home anyway. Got bitched at in the car all the way home by my grandma who had to pick me up. Needless it say it made me wish I was just sent back.
Forced medication, forced treatment, torture, uncomfortably loud environment, staff treating you like an animal, makes so much sense 🥰🥰🥰
I spent a week in the psych ward last year. Checked myself in because I was at the point of having a dated plan in place and I knew it was my last chance at help. It was the worst experience of my life and severely lacking in safety for patients like myself. I was glad I was in there voluntarily and trying to get help because if I were one step more over the edge I could have easily ended it and no one would have noticed or stopped me. I often say I was scared straight, because the fact is that if I ever end up back there I know it will be the end. I've never felt more alone, uncared about and worthless in my life.
Sending you so much love, I wish there are better things in place and I know I'm a stranger but I'm sending you hugs! ♥️
I'm glad you still care about yourself enough like this though. I can imagine the amount of strength and courage it took to go there. I'm also sending you so much love, light and care. You deserve so much more in life and you will, I know you will ❤️
That makes me so very sad. I am a nurse and worked in Psych for awhile. What could've the nurses done better? Or was it all staff?
I was there by force but same thing happened at mine as well
Yes I will never ever go back. It's kind of a bummer cuz I feel like I am less likely to ask for help now that I know what those places are like and how badly I am treated there.
Don't forget the 500-piece puzzles that staff clean up every day so you can never finish them, tabletop games missing key components, the TV running 24/7, the hall phones you can barely hear through, and the cart of super boring books. At least I finally read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 😂
That was a great book. 👍 I hope that you are doing better. 🙂
The 500 piece puzzles were like a fun challenge when I went. Anytime someone started one, about 50% of the ward would join in to try and finish it before the day was up, we felt so accomplished when we did.
Mine had really good books actually, we never did puzzles though. Occasionally we would attempt to play cards but we would end up arguing over the rules and not actually play. Hall phones were absolute shit my parents told me how there was a constant static noise whenever i called
I was lucky they didn't take our puzzles. We had about 10 puzzles, but only 1 had all the pieces. So me and a couple others would do that same one over and over lol
speak for yourself, I've finished an 800 piece puzzle in 3 hours
When I was hospitalized in a psych ward, we were allowed to shave our legs - we just had to do so under supervision. Cell phones were not allowed. I especially hated the rubber pencils. I'm a writer and journaling is therapeutic for me - not very therapeutic when someone is standing over your shoulder the whole time while trying to make a rubber pencil work well enough to write. I began to feel like I was acting in Quills at times. 2 things help me cope: writing and music. They took both away from me. Also, we weren't allowed to watch Rated R movies. We're adults, and in my case, wartime veterans. To be restricted to only PG movies is insane. At least they make so you want to get out - by any means necessary. I also think that standing in front of a whole panel of about 10 doctors to tell your story to over and over is kind of torturous.
Maybe they do this to scare people from committing suicide, however. So they don't have you return to the wards again and motivate you to heal yourself.
The most important activity in the psych ward is to form a good discharge plan.
When I was in a psych ward, we weren't allowed to have razors at all. We had Nair, but we had to be supervised for that. Apparently someone tried to swallow a bunch of the stuff. No shoelaces, no chapstick without supervision, and no underwires in our bras. We also had to pop our bras after every meal to prove we weren't smuggling sporks out of the cafeteria. If someone was caught with a spork, we'd all have to be strip searched.
@@oceanbreezeyy764 Nair? I never heard of such a thing. No chapstick period. Where is this place?
I would physically die if they took away my music and writing, like no joke it wouldn’t even be the mental stuff at that point I would just lay down and die. I don’t know how to function without that stuff. It’s literally my life and existence.
They forgot about all the black mold, the horrible staff that abuses you, the threatening if you don't take meds that make you psychotic... Tell the truth please.
I was 13 and had undiagnosed autism and had a meltdown when they tried to take my comfort plushie away. They simply told me “nobody else is crying over a stuffed animal” and took it away
That is terrible, I’m so sorry.
That's freaking awful..
Fuck.
That’s absolutely terrible.
Awe that’s terrible :(
If that ever happens to anyone you guys have my full permission to fight the nurses to get your comfort item back
My mom went to a psych ward twice. I never had a call from her while she was there, so I assume they took her phone. When she came back home after like half a year, she seemed even worse than before. Before the psych ward she usually was pretty quiet, and at least tried to be a parent, despite the occasional outlashes or negligence. She was always apologetic about that. After she cried a lot more, seemed to condone and even encourage destructive behaviors. She told me she didn't care if i skipped school or took her cigarettes for fun. She started wasting money left and right, and always came back home drunk, bags full of expensive chocolate with new acrylic nails every week. She finally committed unalivement on the Christmas Eve, less than a month after being out.
I didn't get back the same mom that I had before. They ruined her while she was at the ward. I don't dare to tell anybody about my thoughts, in case I might end up in the same place. I don't trust the "you'll end up in good hands, just open up!" thing. I have people in my life that I love with my whole little heart, and so I always think of them first when considering leaving this world. If I didn't know them, my first and foremost concern would be not finishing the job completely, and ending up just like my Mom.
thats. deep my mom did the same thing bro i feel you
I'm so sorry
Mental health just doesn't feel like it has the respect it deserves
Hope you can find a close friend that you can talk to that's what I've been doing
I am so sorry luv :(
I work at one, they did your mom dirty. My patients get a phone call every evening. There's visitation 3 days a week for an hour. I'm sorry your mom did not get the help she needed
this broke my heart to read :( if my mother went through that i wouldnt know if i could recover from the heart break. best wishes for you ❤️
i was in a psych ward and most of the staff were sadistic pieces of shit. all of the nurses were abusive to the "slow" patients (pushing them, beating them, tying them up for no reason, refusing to let them go to the toilet, etc) and one of them literally confessed to one of the patients that she only worked there for money and didn't care about the people she had to take care of. they'd cuss you out for no reason and would push you as well if you "got on their nerves".
the sanitary was absolutely awful. our drinking water used to get so old to the point it became cloudy and slimy. the hospital didn't let the patients bathe themselves for some reason and it was a rule for the nurses to bathe us ONCE IN A WEEK, even though there were showers that were "broken". the hospital treated us worse than poor animals.
this hospital is in russia btw. i guess yall are not surprised
Eh, pysch wards have really shitty conditions all over the world. If the country has institutions that can hold these places accountable and up to scrutiny is the real question
Yeah, I'm not surprised it's ruzzia
@@justbrowsing9697 I agree- I’m from Ohio and the psych ward I went to twice was fuckin’ awful. It traumatised me more than what put me in there. And, how my parents treated it too- it's awful everywhere.
@@skylarserene A 5 year old will see this and make an unfunny Ohio joke.
It doesn't matter which country it was in!
"Downward facing showerheads so you don't tie something to hurt yourself."
My eagle scout ass: Wanna bet?
I knew those knots would be useful eventually :)
Ha, You forgot "Abusive staff that treats you like dog shit"
It's say worse, most people don't assault and rape dog shit
This person is not a doctor, and what he says should be taken as jokes and jokes alone. He was like an EMT for a while or something but that's it.
@@scrdart still pretty weird to pretend to be a real doctor
Yep. Psych Wards are not there to help you. They just teach you to bury your problems and stay quiet so you don't get put in another Psych Ward.
@@fountainoceanus he’s a nurse
It's not a psych ward. It's a "I'm sorry, I'm taking away all your devices for no apparent reason just to make sure you have nothing keeping you alive" ward. HOW THE HELL DOES SHE HAVE HER PHONE?
I guess it depends on the psych ward. When I went in for two weeks I was allowed to keep my phone and my laptop. The main issue was their cords. I was given a short cord to borrow for my phone but to charge my laptop I had to go plug it in inside a closet that was only able to be unlocked by staff. The cord wasn’t allowed to leave that closet. It ended up working fine, since after a few days I was following a lot of their scheduled stuff and so charging my laptop during that time wasn’t really an issue, especially since the staff was extremely willing to let us have that access when we asked. In the end I didn’t end up using my laptop as much as I thought I would, but just having the option along with being allowed to just have my phone with me was nice.
Idk why psych wards apparently have a tendency to just yoink stuff like your phone. It was so relieving being able to call/text my family members, I can’t imagine what my experience at the psych ward would be like without that connection to my loved ones.
@@Stabilization I mean it would be nice to have devices in there with you, but unfortunately I can on,y survive with a 2m long charger , it's so I can roll over in bed and be comfy while charging at the same time
@@Iamw0bbly yeahhhhh that’s usually about the length of my cord, but in the hospital it was maybe like 1 foot long. It made me leave my phone on my bedside table which kinda helped me get to sleep since I wouldn’t be laying in bed constantly scrolling.
But now that habit is gone lol, I’m back to using it in bed.
@@Stabilization my nurse told me it's because batteries can become bombs.
@@vilyar122 wh-
…what kind of things do they think you have available to youALAJSLSSJKSA HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE ATTEMPTED THAT FOR THEM TO MAKE THAT A RULE
In reality it seems to mostly be a privacy issue for other patients and safety issue just in case you break your phone and use the parts to hurt yourself or others. Making BOMBS though? Doesn’t seem to be an issue from what I’ve googled.
Idk if someone seems to be positively benefitting from having their phone they should be allowed to keep it. It was so nice being able to access stuff like my sleeping playlist and call my family when they couldn’t visit me and set my timers for taking my meds and all that. Also having some free time to listen to videos and podcasts with my headphones between groups and during free time. And looking up things to draw.
All these comments about being in a psych ward just breaks my heart 😢. I hope you all can heal from the trauma. You didn’t deserve to be treated this way. No one does.
well you lucky you.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
@@janets7291what bad role did your shitty life give you?
I got stuck in one of the worst psych hospitals near me (a friend who was also in there at a different point looked it up and it has a one star rating on Google), and they really played favourites. The pastor's daughter was in there, and they let her get items that should not have been in there, like body pillows, and they forced everyone to sit through church sessions every other day, you got into severe trouble if you tried to skip it (I was beginning to transition into paganism, so I did not want to be there for those). I had blood drawn every night because something was wrong with my thyroid levels and one nurse decided to ignore my request to have it drawn from my hand because I was scared of needles and would jerk away, she said she saw a good vein in that arm and proceeded to poke me five times in the arm before she gave up and followed my request because my vein moved. Between the mistreatment and the blatant disregard for me and my preferences, I refuse to go back into a mental hospital.
psych ward was the worst thing for my mental health I've ever experienced
Fr it hurts more than helps
I still have trauma and disguise it with humor
@@phytolyssa hey if you need someone to talk to I'm here for you. it gets better, I promise.
also, something that helped me a lot (obviously you're allowed to ignore me, in fact as a rule "advice from a RUclips commenter with an old russian webcomic as a pfp" is the category of advice you should ignore the hardest) imagine instead of the trauma happening to you, it happened to someone you love. it helped me realise that my trauma was not funny, which really made it 1000 times easier to confront.
either way, if you listen to me or don't, I'm here if you need it
i have severe PTSD from it still and it’s been a year almost
America is a cun✝️ and deserves all the backlash that it gets from it’s residents.
This is why I advise everyone to stay out of there. It literally detaches you from reality and every is so fake and unreal. So when you get out you realize the world doesn’t work like the ward so you end up going back because they’re not helping you.
The whole point is to take you out of society so your brain repairs itself, the only problem with that is that it can take years for the brain to repair itself
Exactly.
its like being forced to live in a mini (and forgive me for it) north korea
you cant do nothing
you have nothing
its an illusion that is constructed to rip into your mind, realitg and sanity
Well when you get into the real world you have to act like an adult and be an adult lmao
@@loganosborne164 Most mentally ill people are trying to act like an adult
I can still think of a hundred ways to hurt myself with the equipment in the psych ward
SAME. It’s entirely fucked up, but I feel like they should get a depressed person to check through all the rooms to see how they can fix it LMAO
@@PerfectlyP1per lol true 😂😭
same
They try and do so much and still fail
Same, right! sheesh!
Psych wards don’t fix you, they break you, and traumatize you.
Egg
I think it might depend on the staff.
Can confirm
They’re not meant for your good their meant for the good of the general public
That's just a blatantly untrue blanket statement.
@@FloridaManCrackAddictits common for people suffering from severe depression or people who have attempted suicide to go. they arent for the safety of the general public.
My room had a piece of canvas over a wall where people had raged. One tag read “don’t be a dick to yourself” another simply said “don’t die” it amused and cheered me up to read these.
You wouldn’t think the words “don’t die” would be that powerful but they truly are
These videos are reaffirming the fact that I will never talk about my mental health out of the fear of ending up in a place like that
Welcome to America motherfuckers!
😢❤️🩹
Depending on your country it might be well worth it to talk about your mental health, because things go bad. Sadly, there are plenty of places where people are all too eager to institutionalize and "fix" people for things they consider to be abnormal, and places where you have to jump through the number of complicated hoops to prove, that you indeed have problems that need attention from healthcare. Some places have both.
But if you know your rights and are willing to fight for your happiness it's never not worth a try. Just make sure you are really sure what you sign and if you are okay with what the document implies.
There are hotlines. There are online support communities for people with similar issues. There are private psychiatrists, they usually can help with simpler stuff. There are various therapists (it sometimes takes time to find one that is a good one). There are organizations that occasionally provide free therapy.
I don't know what kind of heavy stuff you have to deal with, but you *deserve* happiness. You *are* worth fighting for. Don't lose your hope.
Good luck. ❤🫂
You might never need to come anywhere near the psychiatric ward, if your problems aren't severe or subtle enough to require it and mental healthcare in the country/district isn't total garbage run by angry idiots.
From my limited experience, the stay is mostly boring, but you might be forced to socialize with people who are incredibly annoying, for various reasons.
If it's a temporary stay the boredom and regime just sucks. If it's involuntary... I get where you come from, I can imagine it's gonna feel like prison with extra steps.
But I've heard that clinics around the world throw people with serious mental health issues *out* on the streets (I've seen some of them myself), instead of keeping them in, because they can't or don't want to house and feed them. Some of them would've been safer, if they had a place to stay and assistance. People with mental illness are more often victims of violence both outside and occasionally within mental institutions, not perpetrators, like they're often treated as.
It's just the best help the society can offer to the people who really need it often is quite shit. 😢
Mental healthcare is worth talking and learning about, even when it's not yours. And it's not horrible universally.
There are people who care, institutions that were made and regulated better to help, not hurt, there are activists who work together, protest and win, so that things get better, there are reputations to these psych wards and clinics, good or bad, people talk, patients talk.
And we have a lot to learn from places where people did better, do better. So we know we can as well.
I feel you bro
The pysch nurses literally are worse than the patients. Garfield behavioral center was a nightmare
Garfield lol
@@johnnystankiewicz295 I love lasagna Jon hehe
st marys is easily the worst asylum. wish that place went bankrupt
For me in Canada it was Brampton civic the staff were so unprofessional I was fucking 12-13 this bitch literally stood over my bed and told me to stop crying…
I came out with ptsd….
were you forced to eat lasagna?
My psych ward staff threw a chair at another patient
Average day in psych tbf
They need to sue -
You know a place is great for people when a good number of people would rather violently die than willingly go
It’s because these places don’t actually help people. They just make it more difficult for them to hurt themselves while they’re there and they don’t provide any long term solutions for their patients’ issues.
Which is a good reason to find other solutions to those kinds of problems. At 17 i wanted to off myself over some drama with girls and my mom took me to a mental hospital to have me evaluated. I lied and managed to avoid getting admitted, but that would not have cured my depression @mask938
A good friend of mine was badly injured when she worked in a psych ward as an aide. She was leaving for a another job shortly when a patient threw a chair at her and she really got hurt. This was about 20 years ago.
Yikes... Hope she's okay, not permanently injured and has a better job nowadays.
Gosh. The patient needed an Adavan medication. They give those out to calm people down.
Where i am those are bolted on the ground
I had a TV thrown at me...
I friend worked at a psych ward and changed to the ER because it was less dangerous. Many of the patients made her a target because she's a woman of color. They had one lady there who she swore was living in 1852 Georgia with how she spoke to anyone with brownish skin, and she was bitten five times (once by the racist lady).
All I ever learned from the psyche ward is "never seek help"
And even when you do get the help you've so desperately been looking for... it ends after 6 months and you're given the boot directly back into the real world with zero outpatient support, almost primed to fall right back into your old habits. Oh and you're also possibly several thousand dollars poorer.
Same
Same here. Since my last psyche ward visit in 2021, I haven't talked to anyone about anything that I'm dealing with. I don't trust anyone anymore, whether it's family or doctors.
Fr always go outpatient if you can it sucks in those bitches. I’ve been in short and long term and tbh short term is the worst.
Seek help, just not from the people who claim to be professionals. Cuz the only thing they’re good at is giving you PTSD
Bold of you to assume I can’t just stop breathing.
i get its a joke but youll pass out and resume breathing if you tried that
unless your muscles or nerves or whatever are different then normal humans, you can't. you will start breathing if you are without air for long enough.
Deaths of despair are a thing, yeah.
Ah yes. Make the chairs heavy so when someone becomes strong enough to actually throw them people die
Yeah.. I was in a mental hospital with those as a teenager and I was somewhat muscular and I pointed out to the staff I could easily lift and toss the heavy ass chairs and I felt it was a safety concern, and proceeded to lift it and move around with it somewhat easily to show them. I would also be the one that moved chairs around for the smaller/younger patients there because they struggled.
Honestly it doesn't even matter how stong someone is, if you are angry/scared/panicked enough almost anyone could launch that chair across the room.
@@brandonj7586 Yeah; adrenaline rush can be deadly to others
what also makes sense is the staff not treating you like a human being and you ending up pretending to be fine just to get out of that hellhole.
I tried to talk to the staff about a noise the pipes were making in the ceiling… they called security and I got fucking tazed…
@@datboi5913 this is why when I get controll over America (using the benevolent dictatorship of The United Allience) I will make it ILLEGAL to have psych wards, as a humans wants to kill themself is THEIR THOUGHTS, and they can do what they want.
@@datboi5913 wtf
@@Dado_nastro if you can explain the reasoning Ill rest peacefully
sad but true - metallica
I had a nervous break down in my 20’s, thanks to my controlling ex-husband. I had a unknown amount of time at the funny farm. They kept me sedated for an unknown while. Then I got to play with the others, only to find out I was being psycho annualized and talked to in the third party. It was then that I realized I wasn’t the crazy one. I was just stressed the fuck out and killing my self was not the answer, but kicking my husband out was! Luckily I had signed myself into the hospital (with no memory of that). I was able to sign myself out.
*Stay out of the funny farm. It’s not funny.
Thank you for this comment. I really needed to see something like this to know that I'm not alone and I'm not crazy.
@Angel sometimes you just need self care and people that value you.
You also need to see value in yourself. Love yourself. You’re worth it!
@@angelacollaso496 thank you. I try to think and believe that but it's hard.
@@WaitingForTheTrumpet I know it’s hard, but you have to keep thinking it and believing it, to manifest it.
Set boundaries for yourself. Cut negativity out of your life as much as possible. You’ll feel the difference.
Be thankful for every good day.
I wish you blessings and happiness.
seriously,,, most ppl considered crazy it is just bc of the ppl in their lives, they r the problem not the person,,
Maybe the safety of staff wouldn't be so much of a concern if they didn't abuse every single person that comes into those places.
Imagine if we had childhood Trauma education and treatment so we didn't need psych-wards
Or we actually have free healthcare and other essential things to survive, and educate people in how to take care of their health. As somebody who has been neglected by doctors all my life, education on why my life was so shit and sometimes painful would not have helped.
@@YouHaveAnApeHeadwe do you ignorant monkey...
It also costs 25-30% of the budget..
You can't make things free it doesn't exist secondly mental health is one of the most difficult and barley explored fields to date. Most of the mental illnesses that exist we barley understand.. most we don't even know why they happen what genetics do it why does certain traumas or just things in general completely alter and change the brain and so forth.
Most people are educated on how to take care of themselves that's your parents or guardians jobs as well as Healthcare providers. Reality it not everyone does that job and not everyone listens either you can't force it that does nothing.
You're not entitled to litterally anything no one is. No animal is entitled to things either that's how reality works we aren't in some fairytale. Most NHS systems are failing due to poor wages poor support unable to provide choices to patients because the government restricts it due to costs, labor shortages, poor benefits, limited access to supplies they need and much more.. many of those systems people are leaving or demanding what I've mentioned above to be increased. Countries cannot afford it.. Canada's systems are costing over 50% of its budget.. nhs has never made sense and it never will it's not even an area the government should be Influencing its allows far too much corruption with pharmaceuticals etc.. too many regulations that don't help anyone especially in America. They purposely restrict the amount of doctors and nurses yearly to keep staff shortages raising wages sure but that creates far more issues than it solves and makes it near impossible for foreign doctors to practice here.
Listen bud get that utopia garbage out of your head. It will never happen and it shouldn't because it oversteps people's rights and liberties.
We have that in norway which i am very glad for
fr if people cared about me actually being abused as a kid i wouldn't be suicidal. they gave me meds and just sent me back to the abuse. + it's so dehumanizing to be under constant surveillance, to have your naked body examined, to be given worthless platitudes and thought terminating cliches instead of actual understanding.
That would require the government to prioritize the welfare and advancement of our society and the only way that is happening (because we have two political parties who FUNDAMENTALLY REFUSE to cooperate) would be to restructure the government as a whole. Socialism would help more than capitalism
I am so sorry to all the people with awful experiences in the psych ward 😢 I am reading the comments and it is honestly breaking my heart. Good luck everyone ❤️
I just hope you learn that these places are evil. Don't let yourself, current or future kids, or anyone you care about be put in there. Keep anyone you care about away. Even with the friendliest of staff, the conditions you live in will drive you actually insane.
@Pineapple-co6fe I don't know where you live but in New Zealand and Australia most psych wards are much more relaxed, even the step down forensic units are actually pretty good. The secure housing unit of the forensic hospital is a lot more restrictive but general psych wards of the hospitals are fairly flex
Their so bad I'm still traumatized from being in one in a past life.
I used to block my door with those heavy ass chairs and make them watch me dance as they tried to open it.
lmfao
Lmao
Omg me 😂💀
@@ravenhixsin8921ikmmmmkmm knkmmm 😊kmkmmmmmmmm😊
Nice
Things I distinctly remember from my stay that aren’t in this part:
•The toilet paper had no cardboard roll. And it wasn’t just hollow in the middle, either. The paper just kept spinning into the center like a cinnamon roll.
•We weren’t allowed to have paper towel dispensers because of the jagged edge on the bottom.
•The TVs were in big metal boxes on the wall. Like think science lab chamber: metal on the edges but plexiglass in the front so you can see through.
•No sinks in the bathrooms. Just the toilet and hellish toilet paper rolls. Also, the toilet tank is in the wall, so it’s just the bowl with no open space underneath (so you can’t cream yourself under i guess??) and no handle, just a button on the wall that didn’t actually push in, so you can’t do anything with that either.
•All the mirrors were just a sheet of metal on the wall. Some real funhouse shenanigans.
•You could have hoodies and sweat pants, but they couldn’t have strings
•We had to do a mandatory hour a day of exercise, so they’d roll out this big TV (Like the one you’d watch movies in class on as a kid) and all they had were 90’s jazzercise tapes.
•We weren’t allowed actual forks. Like we had to eat with sporks.
•We were allowed knives ONCE, but it was to cut tomatoes for a salad we were preparing, and they were plastic. The nurse had to count them all at the end or we weren’t allowed to leave the room 💀
•We painted cigar boxes?? Don’t ask me why, that’s just what the group therapy leader brought in for us to do. I still have it, actually.
•We wrote letters to ourselves that were mailed to us a year later. When I tell you I sobbed reading it, and it’s still one of the most treasured things I own…
•Our parents (or whoever visited us) gave the nurses an evaluation after they left visiting hours and we were then given those when we left. Let me tell you, I don’t think you should be allowed to read the smack your loved ones write about you. I think they should just keep those 💀
And this is why if I ever decide to commit suicide that I would much rather be watched by a loved one at all times. Also I had a trans friend who was being abused by her parents. She commited suicide and then went to a psychward. She told me she was raped by the staff member and she also came out more insane. She attempted again due to the abuse she was facing at home and unfortunately it worked and I don't see her anymore :/
I got a really pointy spoon instead of a knife
Psych wards are 100x worse than prison, and the people who play the crazy card in court find that out the hard way
Murders and those kinds of people dont go to places like this. The places they go to are 10x worse than these
Some yes, but not all of them. I've been to 3 different places and had a good experience every time.
@@JesusChrist-ip7vmsome people actually plea insanity or mental instability to get out of prison and be put in a psych unit for people like them (violent criminals) and yes those people expect a place such as the one in the video, a regular psych ward. But the people who plea insanity don’t realise that they are being put in a place with other people just like them and that they’d be under heavier surveillance with heavier protocols and policies, it’s always a funny little shock for them after finding out that a criminal psych ward IS worse than going to prison lol. I’ve heard of psych inmates beg to be put in prison instead of a psych unit and I think it’s fucking hilarious that they think they deserve that kind of compassion after committing unspeakable crimes and then LYING to get out of prison time only to be faced with much worse circumstances. Criminals who lie to be put in a psych DESERVE to stay in the psych unit to suffer whatever atrocities happen there.
@@JesusChrist-ip7vm im sure sodomy is less worse than being in these looney bins my lord
People who argue insanity and succeed go to a different pych ward specifically for those people who committed violent crimes. They are not anywhere near these places shown in the video.
Not to mention it is extremely hard to successfully argue insanity if you are not completely out of your mind because you get evaluated by psychological professionals who will know if you are faking it.
I was sent to a psych ward (in Germany) and it was the best decision my therapist could have made at the time. It saved my life. The staff was (mostly) nice and I got to do a lot of fun activites such ad horse therapy, dog therapy, ergotherapy, bodytherapy, yoga and so on. I got along really well with the other patients and made friends. My clinic therapist and the other staff helped me to climb out of my depression hole. What I am trying to say is that not every experience is bad. When you need to go to a psych ward to stop
yourself from hurting or killing yourself, do it. Just be careful where you go because not evey clinic is as great as mine was.
Edit: Someone has let me know that I am describing a mental hospital where you are treated better than at a psych ward
Germany seems so much better than the US with this stuff…
Is every ward like that in Germany? I don't think there are any like that in the States. I'm happy you got the help you need and the experience though! That's awesome
I've honestly never heard of a bad German psych ward, can you share some wisdom with us Americans?
America needs to take some notes from Germany…
I never had the ability to choose, they just sent me wherever there was availability
Things in the ER psych unit that just make sense
• Nurses treating you like shit
• Nurses denying you food and water
• Nurses walking away with peoples prosthetic leg because they wanted to talk to a significant other on the phone
• Nurses denying this behavior in the comments and blaming it on patients
• Mean girl to nurse pipeline
The place I ended up going to was great, but I still get nightmares from ER experience two years later. Never go there
Adding onto that second bullet, nurses not caring about patients' diet in general. I was anorexic and ate like four salads (basically a cup of shredded lettuce lol) the whole week I was there. No one seemed to mind and they didn't record if you ate or not. My dr would ask if I was eating, but I would just lie 🤷♀️
Psych wards actually suck if your under 18. I’ve been in the ward twice once as a teenager and the other as an adult and it looking back it was shocking how mean and incompetent the staff was when I was younger.
@@fridabone but what if you need to
Ironically as an intern I loathed the nurses and thought they were absolute c*nts but as a patient during 5 psychiatric stints I don't fault them bc the crazy patients with severe psychotic disorders are a pain in the ass 24/7 and if I had to deal with them everyday, I'd be an as$hole too.
Look, I’m not saying I’m insane, but I found at least 10 different ways on every single safety item to hurt myself
Oh we all thought about it. I've had a few ways to defy them as well. I lost the privilege of wearing the metal nose part of masks. 😅
At some point it's about the challenge.
I wish mine was like this- the place I was in they didn’t let us have coloring books, blankets, or pillows and the staff straight up told me I was faking everything and then was like “I don’t know why people who do stuff like this to themselves (talking about my sh) are scared of needles” and then laughed at me when I started passing in and out- and told us that if we didn’t exercise they would make us stay in longer cs we weren’t being compliant- they also refused to let my roommate have tampons or thick pads and yelled at her for getting blood on the sheets- and then told one of the guys if he was “actually depressed” he should just go off himself then- there’s literally sm more than that but ong it’s the worst experience I’ve ever had :’)
Edit: Also my brother got evaluated by the same place and they told him that if he got admitted he had a 90% chance of being r@pped by the other patients and sent him home- he took his life about a month later. I honestly don’t know how that place is still in business.
That is honestly the worst feeling ever when someone tells u that ur faking. I can relate a little bit since everytime I get sick I tell mom and my brothers always tell me to stop faking it.
im so sorry how awful your time was, i cant believe how we just have to accept that one flew over the cukoos nest is still relevant
I guess you won’t wanna go back
@@mostbasedman1686 But that is the worst feeling is knowing that there is capable help out there but it’s a crapshoot as to whether or not you get adequate help!
even if I wasn't afraid of needles I would still be afraid if the person administering it was as awful as those people
And that’s a patient with privilege, she’s allowed her own clothes and not paper clothes. Someone’s been behaving themselves
plus she has her phone and internet access, dont they take them away sometimes?
How is it legal to take that away???
@@just_jana9959 clothes can be used to try and hurt yourself
@@just_jana9959 it’s patient safety. You’ve clearly never been on either end of the drawstring and bedpost and it shows 💀
But in all seriousness, some people aren’t even allowed to have lamps or non weighted chairs in their room. Usually when they’re that far gone, they have a sitter for safety.
@@djsaidez271 Most of the time.
As someone who went to shadow mountain mental health facility in Oklahoma (before it was shut down), I cannot relate to this persons experience at all 😅 shit was TERRIBLE. Good to know there are at least a few good psych wards that exist.
Oooh...yikes. Hope you have since gotten some good help.
Even the name sounds terrifying
Imo there is no such thing as a good psych ward
@@sparkle0859 getting people help and keeping them from harming themselves, while also not abusing them, is a pretty good thing don't you think? Or are you still a moody teenager who can't stand having their phone and clothes taken for a while if it saves their life?
@@Just1Nora No, I think they just have a realistic look into the awful state of our mental health institutions. I've been to one of the "best" mental health institutions in the US and even there you're treated like you're not human. They lie to you about how long you'll be staying and as soon as you show that you're interested in leaving, they don't give you privileges to go outside. It's horrifically adversarial and you feel insane if only because the staff and doctors treat you like shit and only care that you don't off yourself. They don't even try to empathize with where you're at and the help they give you is useless at best and insulting at worst. Like really, coloring books are supposed to heal mental health? I had seen staff clearly push people into talking about things they were not ready to talk about and rubbing in the fact that they had no friends in front of the entire group. If this is the state of our best mental health wards, I can only imagine how horrific the rest of them are. The patients were the only thing good about that place, I got lucky and all the other patients were very nice people.
bro as a person who was SA’d if they had to strip me i would not be living another day and they wouldn’t see the sun again either
I was very defensive myself, I told them they'd have to skin me alive and I always went into survival mode during those times. I'm a very large person and when I'm angry I have the strength of an ox, but the worse part is the sedatives they stabbed me with. Since I was bugger, they used 8 doses and usually that's enough to be close to deadly. They did not care about me one bit. I lost my best friend in there and only after I got the call did they talk to me about letting me out.
U.S. mental health is seriously scary 😨 why are people getting stripped? Overdosed on purpose? In the UK nurses would be losing their registration so fast for this kinda stuff
crazy part is when you go to a psych ward there’s a 97% chance you’ll come out worse than you went in
This is because people will have a breakdown and run for help instead of growing up and then they find themselves in a room with folks who are actually deranged. Its like sending a petty thief to a federal supermax prison, they dont belong. Weve watered down the defining line of mental illness and when it needs to be addressed and what can be done for it. Weve lumped people into it who are just performative with their temper tantrums because life simply hasnt given them what they want. Most people just need a life coach. Even a lot of suicide attempts are performative for sympathy but the person cant admit that so they take it to the top and find out the top is a cold room. I wish everyone well but weve not handled this situation properly.
@@sealstech8087 You would be doing the world a huge favor if you decided to stop talking.
Sealstetch is the type of guy to end up in there for yapping.
@@sealstech8087Absolutely right people have become so soft.
@@sealstech8087or… maybe you’re just not qualified to tell people whats wrong with them. cuz i dont think you’re a doctor..
I went to a mental hospital once, it was actually nice. It was like a vacation from home (lots of abuse at home). The staff were nice, every day felt like a sleepover, and sometimes they'd sneak us snacks and soda in exchange for yoga participation or if we missed a meal for whatever reason. We would get the tv in the early mornings and late nights, but on weekends, free tv reign cause there were no classes to keep us occupied. I loved the jigsaw puzzles the most. And if you climbed up to level 3 by being active in your treatment and behaving, you earned access to the hairdresser and the canteen (sodas, cakes, and snacks galore for about 30 minutes). They never made us sleep but if we were up in the main rooms past 2 AM we were asked to at least pretend to sleep in our rooms cause the staff had to do rounds and make sure everyone was okay so everyone had to be in their beds and accounted for. No electronics, and we had limited time on the wall phones each call but we could always call whoever again later on. I know a mental hospital is different from a psych ward (i think???), but i just wanted to put in my input from being in a similar facility ^w^
My dad thinks of it being a vacation in a bad way.
Yeah I went to one similar to that and it wasn’t a bad stay I kinda miss it in some ways
What was the name of it and where? If I get sent to one, and can choose the location, im picking this one.
A woman I know inhaled a rubber glove that they forgot to take out after cleaning her room. She didn’t make it
Well damn😮
She’s a lucky one then based off how hellish these places are. Don’t blame her.
@@magnarcreed3801 she was in a phsychosis. She was a in a nice hospital for 4 days and then did that. So no not lucky.
How the hell did she inhale a rubber glove?
@@DefiniteIyHuman she quite simply inhaled a rubber gloves
went to a mental hospital thing one time and they literally forgot to give me dinner, every night
My brother worked at a mental health facility, and one lady would write inspirational quotes, but she never got them right, and the best one was when she meant to write “Hope springs eternal” but instead wrote “Hope brings a turtle”. I hope that lady’s doing well, she was nice.
I mean "Hope brings a turtle" is a pretty great quote
* starts hoping really really hard because… I really want a turtle *
Lift until you can use the psych chairs as a weapon
Yeah but ive read they are only like 40lbs so light work, give me 2 so I can dual weld
Psych Wards are my worst fear, I'd rather die then get their "help" for even one day
Trust me, they are literally jail cells.
I no longer share any of my feelings with anyone and think therapy is a joke because of it.
Horrible food with the bare minimum of nutrition. Cameras in every room, including the bathroom. You're stripped down off all your clothes and belongings. You cannot leave your room unless someone comes to get you, even if you gotta go to the bathroom. I was 17 which should of landed me in the children's ward but I was instead placed in the adult ward with extremely violent people, one person was chained to the wall and screaming for an hour talking about how he was going to kill everyone. My only form of entertainment was a single book that they bent most of the pages trying to see if I had anything between the pages. The nurses, doctors, and therapists literally did not care about my well being.
All in all a horrible experience and I felt so degraded and I felt worse after I left.
And that's why people kill themselves instead of seeking help because "help" means loosing every human right, getting drugged and locked in with crazy people and treated inhumane.
It's not even help at that point!
I know I wish we could get rid of them they never ever help they are horrible and don’t help you in anyway, like I just hate them so much there so messed up and so inhumane I hope we abolish them and set up something new because those are not ok at all
I went to a childs mental hospital, all that place taught me was to hold in my feelings so I wouldn't get punished for having an illness. I am so lucky that my stay was so short, mine was a week, I think the kid next room to me was there for 2 months by the time I left
Edit: Just to add, the reason I left wasn't because I was showing signs of being okay, I got out because I faked my emotions
And THIS is why the hospital I went to PLUS my doctors REFUSED to put me in a psych ward
That toothpaste is really a special kind of hell, lol. That, and the fact that they came around every 15 minutes, night or day, to make sure I was still breathing. At first, it felt like prison to me, but they were so very kind, and all the rules and restrictions made sense.
I resorted to using soap instead of that toothpaste. Tastes gross, but gets your teeth clean, then rinse, spit, and grab a piece of Nicorette...
We're you on suicide watch? That's probably why it was so frequent
@@barb8335 I literally had forgotten that that's what it actually was for, but yep! I had a terrible time sleeping, and some of the staff were so damn weird when they came in the room, like the one that would stand over my bed real close to try to see my face, then stand there for a full minute, counting my breaths. I'd wake up to that and my poor PTSD would flash back to when I had a stalker that did that. 🙄
what did it taste like? what kind of toothpaste was it
@@GingerBun I found it to be very odd. Most toothpaste is quite minty, and tends to 'foam' a bit; this stuff had almost no flavour, but a very weird, almost sour aftertaste. The texture was almost...slimy? slippery?? (it's really hard to describe). It doesn't have a nice, scrubby, 'sudsy' texture like most toothpaste, and my teeth never ever felt clean. Person in another comment said they'd used soap instead, and honestly, that's a great idea, lol. Oh, and it's CLEAR. 🤨
She was allowed to have her phone? Every psych ward I've ever been to confiscates your phone immediately. It's like the first thing they do.
but why all the comments I've read is so you don't have contact with the outside world and even then WHY THE HELL
She's probably in another country. In America you can't have electronics but I know some countries in Europe allow them
@@2dfaceguyidk I THINK it’s so there are no distractions in trying to get better, I know that a lot of stuff online can be triggering, and there’s some interesting tutorials on the internet on how to hurt yourself in various ways in a variety of places. But I feel like restricted or monitored access is better than none at all, I was so lonely and stressed during my stay at a psych ward over how little I could socialize, the one I went to even had a rule that you can’t form bonds and connections with the other patients, all I got was a ten minute phone call at night with my family. I kinda live off social interaction, I get like… uber depressed without it, so you can imagine how hard it was to get better while in there. It was kinda nice to detox from the stress of living, if you feel like you need a vacation where pretty much every single hour of everyday is planned out for you, very neatly with few decisions to make and absolutely nothing major, cause that’s what it was like for me, then maybe a psych ward is great for you
@@otoyatakechi The hospital is Cambridge Memorial Hospital Foundation, which is in Canada, so maybe.
I know alot of people that snuck in phones pretty easy just say you don’t wanna be striped search cuz u were raped😁
Pro tip: If you are being harassed by a patient tell whoever visits you (if not try to tell a reasonable staff member) I was being sexually harassed by a patient and they blamed me and didn’t nothing about it they made me sit by his room and he would say vulgar things to me and when I tired to talk to staff they ignored me. I ended crying to my family after trying to kill myself. I was begging them to let me leave with them and that I would be good. When I told them what was happening they called the hospital that night and said to do something or they would sue. Almost all the nurses were mad at me. But at least that guy was kept in his room.
I'm so sorry that this happened to you. I work at a mental hospital. Let me tell you, if a another patient was saying that stuff to you then the staff definitely heard him and just didn't want to do anything. We have 4 or 5 techs on the floor and at least 2 nurses all the time. That definitely should have been nipped in the bud in the beginning.
Hey, I was sexually harassed in a psych ward too. It feels inappropriate to say "twins!" but
@Ili They/Them bro I just go out of th ward!!
i knew someone who was sexual assaulted in the psych ward and the nurses didn't believe it was sa and he got into trouble for having sex at the hospital
There is an entire hospital in Utah where the nurses wouldn't report sa because they didn't want to lose their jobs or do the paperwork or whatever. @@applespotty2232
"heavy chairs so no one can throw them"
Buff mustache guy in every prison/psych ward movies:
Yeah no, being surrounded by motivational quotes all the times would seriously have me testing that window
Why did my brain go to "can't you just fill up the trash can with water from the shower tho"-
nope, they usually have holes at the bottom to prevent that. Plus there was no door to the bathroom, so they could pretty easily see you doing it during their check ins every 15 minutes. At least thats how it was at the ward i was in lol
Uh no. No trash can in patient room. They get paper bags. Showers are timed. You have to keep hitting button for water.
People watch you take the shower. At the most trusted level, it's one monitor to every 2 or 3 showers and you have a curtain that covers your privates but your torso, head, and legs are visible.
@@Pineapple-co6fe And as an sa victim that would cause me to avoid showers. These places really just don't know how to treat actual patients.
@@rileydavis1713 bingo. I showered ONCE my entire visit because as an SA victim myself, i was not dealing with that shit
I was in a german psych ward for about 6 months and I'm kinda shocked at what I read here in the comments. I got put in because I didn't talk at all to anyone except my family and a really close friend so my school decided to talk about this with my parents because I had terrible grades because of that.
They let us keep our phones, as long as we don't use them during our chores or to harass others and while the nurses did keep checking up on us, when they noticed you kept playing nice and did everything they asked you to do, they came less, or at least checked up on you in a way that doesn't disturb you. There was only one nurse who could get a bit scary if you messed up badly but the others were rather nice, if a bit patronizing at times (treating you like a dumb child who needs every little thing explained to them). They even had a list where you could earn points if you did all your chores and if you had enough, you could use them to decide where you'd like the whole group to go to on wednesdays. For example they had a small bowling alley, a library and there was even a horse stable nearby owned by another business that they had a deal with, that lets you pet, clean and even ride a horse in a small circle. They actually got kinda surprised that I liked going to the stable so much because "horses are for girls" and I was a boy. Well, they weren't entirely wrong with that~
Honestly I can understand some of the comments. One of the psych wards in my area is fairly decent to deal with mostly (Still no phones or laptops allowed though) and the other one is a complete hellscape that I ended up in when I was younger where the staff are abusive as fuck even on the adolescent ward where I was and they nearly killed me with a drug interaction.
"Gonna send my kid to psych yard because it has bad grades" 👁️👄👁️
@@user-bt4he7qv6u "gonna send my kid to an abusive psycho ward because of one A minus" type beat :skull:
I almost had to go to one for the same reason. My grades were fine, but I almost couldn't leave my house cause I was so anxious. I'm glad they figured out what I had when they did or I would probably have gone which I know would've worsened everything. Idk why my own family thought it would be a good idea to send me away when the only people I was comfortable around and could talk to were them.
Yep same for me was in a austrian one.
I guess it depends on the place but i was for 3 months (then we all got kinda kicked out cause thats when covid started) and i actually had a amazing time it was almost like vacation and i helped/made me look way more positive at life.
Heavy chairs sounds like it could backfire in a real bad way...
I hate the ones that don't let you contact your family and keep you in there for months with nothing to do. An acquaintance of mine got sent to one for half a year, no contact with anyone excluding seeing your family on Christmas. We thought they killed themselves for like 4 months
I was fortunately only in for about 5 days, but they wouldn't let me see my family either. No visitors. It was in June of last year, so it's not like it was the hight of the pandemic either.
That's why I think psych wards are fucked up. They don't solve any problems. They seem to think that preventing you from killing yourself is the equivalent of solving your depression or other problems. It's all a joke.
my bf also got sent to one and i thought he was dead after he didnt message me for a week, he is okay now tho but i wish i couldve been there for him
Why do they do this? I can only imagine how much stress this puts on everyone involved.
that's White Room Torture
This is why I don't speak with therapists because they are snitches
Absolutely fucking agreed
My therapist have been really good then
Yeah, at this point I'd rather just stay a alcoholic and vent to chatbots.
RUclips DELETED MY ORIGINAL COMMENT OMG hate it here but anyways
The trick to having a therapist is lying about or hiding certain aspects that would get you put in a hospital but still learning how to cope with your trauma and emotions. If you learn how to cope with the emotions and trauma , then the things that would get you put in a psychward would likely be a lot less severe over time. But I guess it depends on the situation
True. I’ve been lucky to find a single good therapist that I COULD talk to about anything, including (nonviolent) illegal activity. One of the first things one should do when going to a new therapist is ask them about their policies concerning patient confidentiality. Most of the time, they can’t LEGALLY say SHIT unless you’re talking about offing yourself or someone else. The later I get, but everyone needs space to vent the former. It’s rarer to meet people who HAVEN’T thought about killing themselves, and if we threaten to lock up anyone who feels that way, society would be pushing for many, MANY more suicides.
What I like to do to encourage suicidal people to live is to tell them the story of my friend in HS, who killed himself. The ENTIRE school flipped shit. There were people who didn’t even know him bawling their eyes out, lessons disrupted from so many students and teachers being in a daze. Somebody even threatened to shoot up the school.
Suicide strikes at the center of a community. People don’t even have to have known you to be devastated by your loss, so imagine how much MORE intense the pain will be for your loved ones.
My childhood best friend also commit suicide. I still, to this day, have dreams in which he’s alive that I run up to his crying, telling him I thought he was dead. In my dreams he laughs at me and teases me the same as he always did as we walk, talk, and laugh together. And as sweet as it is to see his face, I HATE those dreams because I have to remind myself that no, Joey ISN’T alive, and that yes, he really did kill himself.
PLEASE don’t turn around and do that to your loved ones. The pain NEVER stops hurting, and it’s an especially intense sort of heartache. Think of the pain and impact your suicide might have on your loved ones.
The worst thing is how they drug you up to the point of losing all sense of self.
Exactly my parents said I was practically a zombie when I was on them drugs I don't remember any of it
I just stopped taking them one day and have been a normal member of society sences
As someone with chronic depression and anxiety I usually only take antidepressants but during my hospital stints they were a lot more liberal with tranquilizers for sleep or distress eg benzos and boy did I enjoy those few hours of zen.
That place made me learn to never say anything to the doctor
Graffiti on the walls begging for death, broken TV, broken everything else, windows in every door, bathroom doors that lock you out or get stuck because there's never any maintenance on them, nurses inventing horrible rumours about patients in front of them, criminal neglect, casual emotional abuse (from staff), pyjama pants/pants with elastic waistbands because no drawstrings or belts, shoes with the laces removed, empty "isolation room" with no door handle on the inside. And a bunch of sick kids because this was a child and adolescent ward.
In my experience, everyone in the psyche ward for the most part was normal, functional, cogent. The psyche ward was an incredibly abusive environment for me. The tech / nurse staff were absolutely evil. Some of them were kind, but very few. It was torment and it definitely made my mental health worse.
Someone is depressed or has anxiety and you lock them in this sterile hellhole, take everything away from them including all their fundamental rights, drug them and surround them with very mentally ill people hoping they will find joy in life again. Yeah, no they will just end up traumatized, addicted to antidepressants and kompletely broken.
Depends on the hospital. I stayed in a private one so the staff could kick out anyone who got too crazy, they could also refuse to take in patients. The state hospital on the other hand has to take in everyone. Also, anti-depressants are not habit forming, though you still need to take care when stopping.
Antidepressants aren't addictive
I guess it depends on the place but i was for 3 months (then we all got kinda kicked out cause thats when covid started) and i actually had a amazing time it was almost like vacation and i helped/made me look way more positive at life.
@@anthonyskata yet they do have side effects from not taking them anymore
@@anthonyskata anything can be addicting
I mean, I genuinely enjoyed both stays at a psych ward, they helped a lot.
Yea. Some are good.
After working in a jail and seeing firsthand what individuals psyching out are capable of, you realize how sharp and dangerous a piece of a destroyed plastic garbage can can be in the hands of someone determined to harm themselves
I saw one of my buddies while I was in a psych ward try to stab a tech with a golf pencil sharpened on the wall
I went to North lake Behavioral in Mandeville and the 16-17 floor of Children's Hospital NOLA. Dangerous objects everywhere. Not conventionally dangerous but could be if you try hard enough, like the toothpaste tubes and combs
I'm a psych ward all they can do is limit the harm you can do to yourself if your that determined you can always find a way
@@sirdrum-a-lot 00
Psych wards only make you crazier...but it's super comforting to know you can't hurt yourself while you lose your mind.
Do you have a theory why they’re so hell bent on “saving” psych patients but let all the others kill themselves?
@@CaliBeachVibes2001 because they take the ones that a paychecks they don’t care about saving peoples lives they care about putting their money in their wallets
@@CaliBeachVibes2001people just kill themselves no one is letting them kill themselves
@@CaliBeachVibes2001makes them feel “good” about themselves for “saving” lives
Okay they forgot to mention that the most dangerous thing in a psych ward is the staff because they call the shots on your life there they can do anything they want
I heard one person's story who was in a few psych wards for schizophrenia.
The first one basically locked them up on the floor for aggressive patients, because the calm one didn't have any space, gave them a very questionable dose of medications that was horrible for them, and every time they contacted the family through supervised calls, asking to be taken to a different facility, the staff would extend their stay, convincing their family that the person is out of their mind and needs more time....
Only for the other ward to give them actual human treatment, try out a better medication, and just... Let them go after everything was set...
The only obvious difference being the size of the town and money put into the facility... In some places underpayed staff simply enjoys the power is all...
That is true I went to one bad one and one that is all right but still not good
I fortunately didn't have to deal with anyone ESPECIALLY bad, but a few of the people that were there with me had been beaten by staff members before.
As a person who was placed in one, this is true. The one I went to didn't even have open outlets. We had the down facing shower heads, but no help buttons. There were people that checked on each person every 15 mins.
Psych wards are genuine nightmare fuel. If you ever end up in one keep your head down and pretend whatever you have to pretend in order to get out asap
and be sure to learn the art of manipulation. If you can do it just right, you'll be out quicker.
that's the sad truth. every single time you try to be honest about your issues, you just make things worse for yourself. you have to force it all down 24/7 while being constantly observed as well. it's awful, especially if you have previous trauma involving trust issues and trouble showing emotions like i do, that just ends up making it so much worse. because it shows you're not just being irrational, like others try to convince you in all that "people care about you" bs, but your worst fears are actually completely true and you genuinely have no one to trust and are completely alone to try to survive in that place.
@@user-hq7yz9fd6s that's a good role model I hope the patients learned from him
I like the psych ward. I miss my grippy sock vacation
@@Charlotte-ld7vn it may of been good for you but it was terrible for 10 other people.
They forgot about the part where you don't have your phone so you have NO FUCKING CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
Ended up getting sent to a psych ward. Wasn't exactly planning on it happening. Then they take my phone. Meaning, to my family (we use a family tracker app) my last known location was a hospital before I disappeared off the face of the earth.
"Hey, can I at least let my mom know what's going on?" Nope. No phones allowed until you get discharged. Great thinking people. You took someone who said "I really, really, *FUCKING REALLY* don't want to go there, lock them in what feels like a cage, and then shot my stress through the roof. Brilliant. Truly a brilliant way to make someone get creative. Got really close to testing their runner policy.
Edit to fucking add, because I'm getting tired of saying it: Yes, they had two phones on the walls. One never worked. The other was always off. So no, I couldn't just do that. No, I didn't want to sit there on my phone all day. All I wanted was TWO FUCKING MINUTES TO TELL MY MOTHER I WAS ALIVE. THAT IS ALL!!! A SINGLE CALL OR TEXT SO MY MOTHER DIDN'T HAVE *ANOTHER* STROKE. IS THAT REALLY SUCH AM UNREASONABLE REQUEST?????
I didn't want to keep it. I wanted to do one thing so my mother didn't start contacting my *military chain of command* to get information. Because that leads to another shitshow. I wanted to do one thing and then turn it back in. I was in the hospital *against my will, despite informing many people I didn't want it.* The treatment there made me WORSE than before I went in, and I was worried about my family the whole time. So how, in the name of all that is good, green, and holy, is that supposed to help?
if youre in residental they let you have your phone, not for shorter stays
@@dinsoaur7241 Define shorter stays.
@@Eragon0716 a few weeks to a month. most people who stay residental stay a few months to years. it depends on your facility.
The one i went to, you wherent allowed your phones on the unit, but if you earned your ranks to get offwards/smoking privledges you could use it then.
@@Psychnurse2023 They did have two of those, but one was busted, and they usually forgot to turn the other one on during our free hours half the time.
And, when it was on, you had about 30 people who wanted to use one phone.
Psych ward sounds like someone thought of prison,they were told it was already done before so they made it to torture people that are sad
To be honest, the heaver the chair the _more_ likely I am to consider it a throwing object.
The issue with heavy chairs is if they’re bored enough, they’ll start working out with the chair
Gotta get them gains
@@COSmicFingersyes fk mental health
The only real thing u need in life is GAINS
Can confirm
Don’t tell the doctor that you want to hurt yourself or others or it’s an involuntary trip to the psych ward for you
lol i literally told my doctor that i have thoughts of both svicide and homicide-- brought a knife to school intending to use it, they didnt do shit
@@o3i4n must not have been an ER doctor, GP’s generally won’t PEC you but an ER doctor will jump to send you to a psych place
Psyche wards are like abusive zoos.
fr. they treat us like rabid wild animals.
@@entrapta.exe_ Us? Man u trapped in there ur sum?
Can confirm
Some people deserve not all I mean the ones who kill others for fun
Fr
"why are you so quiet?.."
where im going if i open my mouth:
Been in one... by clerical error. I was supposed to be getting evaluated for head trauma from an accident when I was 12.
Got sedated for the CT scan and woke up in a stark white room on a bed with no sheets and no handle on the door on my side. Spent a few days there nearly getting force fed anti-psychotics because was lying about my name so I had to be Harry Mivens (fake name don't worry) and all the food was a slurry and served without anything to eat with but our hands.
Doctor came in on a rumor of Someone claiming to be his patient and he saw me, called my name and not Harry's and whisked me away from there.
From my experience I feel bad for anyone that got committed there.
Jesus christ, I'm so sorry. That sounds like a horribly traumatizing experience.
And you sued right?
sounds like a lawsuit my guy
i was involuntarily held and committed into one and i came out worse and with PTSD. i am so sorry this happened to you, the nurses are trained to not listen to anything you say it feels like and there is no escaping.
Literally nightmare fuel, I hope they gave you some therapy after that. My partner has never been to prison but regularly has nightmares about being falsely imprisoned, I can’t imagine actually, truly, experiencing such a thing 😭 especially so young!
"Heavy chairs" proceeds to lift it with one hand
I know. We had much heavier ones but I could lift them easily as an average strength young kid.
There is something even darker about a room specifically designed to prevent you from ending your misery.
Suicide either ends in hell or eternal nothing, whole lot worse, eh?
@@OhioStudiosOGand what's the proof you have abt that?
@@121star64ya don’t have proof it doesn’t exist :] religion is objective
ALSO OML I LOVE UR PFP
@@georgiapeach9146 OMG IT'S CARL THE CUPCAKE :O (and also i know religion is objective, that's ok believe what you want ;D, but in my opinion telling someone that they will suffer forever without actual proof it's a little stupid)
@@121star64 I completely agree! I’m religious and I say as long as someone is a good person they would never go to hell :D
FNAF FOR EVA 😔 ✊ ✨
You forgot. The tracker to make sure you don't leave. At least one really strong person incase you yell, the staff who make you feel like shit, and my personal favorite "The Leech Room", the blood draws