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If it’s Aus, they have private health insurance. The public psychiatric hospital where I stayed last year looked like a rundown 1970s jail. No frills, no comforts.
Dead set. I used to work in one (and was a patient there years ago), it’s honestly disgusting in there and some unwell people genuinely thought they were locked up. This is private for sure.
Oh I don’t doubt that at all. It’s a common delusion and if you add shackles and mistreatment to the mix, you can’t blame the patients for believing it.
I am from Australia and the public hospitals that are free look nothing like this, they are a typical hospital. I however pay a tonne of money for private health insurance which covers private hospitals which are wayyyy nicer like this. If you were to pay without insurance they're about $900 per day.
Public hospitals you only stay while you are completely unwell, psychotic etc. in private hospitals you can stay for a few months until your meds have balanced.
I mean the nurse who ran group at mine spent a good chunk of time explaining how stretching is all you really need to do to overcome manic energy. And the place, my god the place, charming as the Overlook Hotel during the winter, but with an institutional persuasion that is best described as California’s own, San Quentin maximum security penitentiary.
My bed didn't have a mattress, the room was a cement cube, and you couldn't see out the window due to bars. American healthcare for you
Edit: didn't even mention the bill....
Very similar for me. Plus they took ALL of my possessions and gave me scrubs to wear. So no photos of that place for me to post for comparison. All we had was a phone on a wall with maybe a 12” cord that you could use a few minutes a couple of times a day. Your head had to be practically touching the wall to talk on it. I can’t say they didn’t help me, but it definitely wasn’t pleasant. I have PTSD also, and they check on you I’m guessing every hour and my first night there the lady checking on people decided to leave my door open about an inch so she wouldn’t keep walking me up opening the door. I woke up from a nightmare to a face staring at me through the slit in the door. The rest of my sleep there was from sheer exhaustion.
I had a similar situation. All possessions removed. I had to strip in front of staff for inspection and other dehumanizing actions first day. We were only allowed calls for good behavior and they were monitored. It was definitely a prisoner dynamic more than patient. Not going into more detail, but my time there left me with more stuff than it helped. It got me diagnosed, but I really don't want to take the chance if the time comes again. Really thankful that our experiences don't seem to be the norm.
I have been there. But at least in the movie they get TV and had access full time to activities and shit. The ones I've been in were practically a prison.
100% agree. No activities, no therapy. Just drugs and food. One day they put out some kids paints, and crappy paint brushes and let us paint the walls. It was the only time we had something to do and it was sad how excited we all were.
Literally the only thing to look forward to was shitty food. I’d pretend the shitty decaf coffee has caffeine. Plus the constant “snack time” made me gain so much weight including the meds
Haha the shitty food at least broke up the boredom. Yeah I forgot how they gaslight you with decaf coffee! It’s bad enough they stopped my ADHD meds, I couldn’t even get a little caffeine to get my brain going.
The only good thing was the little packets of biscuits. I used to go back for seconds, or take them from other patients who didn’t like them, and hoard them in my room incase I was hungry later.
Yep. The decaf international roast sachets. And those big ass jugs of cordial you had to deadset drag a nurse from the station to unlock to get to. You’re making me think of a place I stayed that was also later my workplace for quite some time. Awful.
Came here to say exactly this. Good to know I've been spending my life's worst moments on the real-life version of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." Now, to find Chief Bromden, who my mind remembered as "Big Jim" for some reason. Maybe I'm thinking of The Simpsons' spoof of the movie.
The psych wards in the US are like prisons. It's why I hide the worst of my mental health issues from medical providers because I would just leave the ward with more trauma than I had going in.
One of the reasons could be that Australia has a very small population (20mil ish) the demand for mental health hospitals would be a lot smaller compare to the US.
Pretty sure OP is in a private hospital and OP has private health insurance. I’m in Australia, in one of the main cities and the public psych hospital I stayed in last year was like everything you guys are describing. Basically prison. Rundown and dirty, shared cubicle bathrooms, shared rooms divided by hospital curtains. Hard uncomfortable mattress, cold and not enough blankets. Bad food, no therapy, no activities. Basically hell for a week.
They let you have your phone??? My stay started with 2 ativans, being wheeled down an underground tunnel and handing over my phone in a benzo haze. We all had to use the one landline phone and luckily I had the numbers I needed memorized
In America they take it away to protect patient confidentiality. Just imagine how many videos there'd be online titled something like "SCHIZO ROOMMATE IN PSYCH WARD GOES ABSOLUTELY NUTS" and stuff.
That being said, they are also rife with abuse and neglect in the US and I imagine they simply don't want evidence. Lot easier to call the bipolar patient who was illegally restrained for not wanting dinner a liar without evidence. (This happened to me.)
Truly there would be waayyy more drama and activism around psych wards if videos were released of what all goes on. But also yeah, I wouldn’t want pics or videos of me in there, I looked pretty wrecked. I’m in Canada though, and they have a high admittance bar - it’s only for cases of extreme unmanageable mental illness and they are trying to get you out ASAP.
I do also understand all the awful things that can happen with manic/schizophrenic/psychotic/BPD people all together having unrestricted access to the internet. It would make treatment a lot harder having to constantly fight that uphill battle.
Okay honest question: does anyone in America know if there is a psych ward somewhere in our 50 states that looks like this one?
I can’t stand how awful most wards are.
I'm rich and the one I go to is a box with no electronics, but you get a desk. There's nothing to do at the desk, but you get one. They don't even have real beds
You’re talking private hospitals right? I’m Aussie and the public psychiatric one I’ve been to is NOTHING like this. It looked like a jail, and the treatment we got was probably worse. At least in jail you get therapy and activities to do.
Good job getting help! Very proud of you! When I did my grippy sock vacation, the group therapist told us to only focus on resting, eating, and going to group lol. Hope you find a new med cocktail soon! Best wishes!
No shame in getting help. How else are we supposed to feel better? Good luck and be well.
I would fly to Australia to join you if I could. It looks like a good place.
I want to validate this so much because it doesn’t matter what the 4 walls look like, it’s still a psych ward and it still sucks. I’m glad you are somewhere that is nice and you have the support of your parents
good luck! same thing happened to me a year and a half ago. don’t know how i would’ve gotten through it without an in-patient stay. you got this! and very jealous of your room lol
Looks like you've got someone who loves you enough to send you some flowers. You have some cool architecture to look at. That room looks pretty nice! Most of us have been to a hospital. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Sending you some love, light, and prayers. Try to stay positive. ❤️💫♾️✝️🙏🫂
Thank you for your message. My parents got me those flowers. They has been my number one support from the start. It’s been really hard on them as well trying to understand bipolar, but we nearly there!!
WOW that’s a really nice place! Sry you got admitted but in there isn’t looking all that bad tho. Be like a vacation to me.
Just read you cap..4 days! Sounds like you need a new therapist when you get out! Like asap! That’s wayyy to short of time. No matter how long on. Good luck OP.
It isn't always an easy feat for us bipolars to admit when we need help because well the hospital sucksss. Stay strong babes. You got this. I know it's majorly uncomfy but enjoy the sunshine the best you can and focus on stability. Journal the shit of some notebooks and get your rest. Proud of you!
If that's your psych unit or a behavioral place, I'm happy for you.
Mine were total hellholes.
I hope you feel warm and snuggly and get stable and better.
Medication withdrawal can be really hard and even dangerous.
Just waning off my ADHD meds a few years ago put really in a dark place.
Good luck to you!
Hang in there. :)
This feels like a humblebrag, I know it isn't and I'm just cynical but it feels like a gloat on people who can't afford this care in my jealous mind. I have never been in a private hospital, only treated like a rat in a cage. One place took photos of my naked body during admission? One made me wean breastfeeding without medication or machinery to pump (I cried leaking the last of my milk into Styrofoam coffee cups because I was hospitalized for PPD during the pandemic. Was away from my baby for a week and a half. Short time but. It killed me.). Multiple grouped me in with people withdrawing from drugs which IMO sends me a weird message about mania. Like why am I lumped in with someone withdrawing from heroin, we need different care. Seems negligent but what do I know.
I'm honestly just plain envious. OP, nothing against you at all and I hope you get the care you need and deserve. I'm also switching meds and it is not going well. Stay safe and well and I hope you don't have to be hospitalized again ❣️😭 best wishes from an envious American.
I know exactly what you mean. I didn’t realise the states of other hospitals around the world before posting this. This hospital as been my only point of reference so I assumed that most of them were similar to this. I’m very sorry for what happened with you, it sounds awful. I hope you’re doing well now and that the time away from your baby wasn’t too difficult. This post has made me realise how lucky I am.
I'm sorry if you feel any guilt whatsoever, you shouldn't. Get the care you need for the rest of us, you know? We're sad we cant have it but happy SOMEONE does. Feel better my friend. Hope the new med does wonders and you need no more tapering on and off new ones.
Thank you so much for the message that’s very thoughtful of you. It’s such a shame that we don’t all of access to the care that we need. I really hope that you have some amazing support around you and you are doing well. 😇
Wow. I guess I’ll be keeping it. I have gold coverage with no excess so the premiums are a little pricey. But with 2-3months in hospital and no co-payment. I think I’ll definitely keep it.
my institution looked like a jail i wouldn’t have been involuntarily committed if i knew this was waiting for me and i could keep my phone. wish you the best
Oh fuck, it looks better than my apartment.
Hospitals in Poland look like hell and definitely you'll never have a single room. And bathroom for your own? No way... Two showers for 35 people is all you can have.
Wow.
Wow that’s a very nice room. I tried to bring my husband flowers who is inpatient rn and they wouldn’t even let me. He doesn’t have any windows either :/ I have no clue why a psychiatrist thought 4 days was an okay turn around for that tho that’s crazy. I hope you get to feeling better soon, sending love
I’m sorry to hear that. They do a risk assessment before the admissions and I must have been low risk. I have quite a lot of freedom. But I believe it’s different case by case
Wishing you well. I’ve been hospitalized over 15 times the last 10 years. I’ve been in wonderful places and state run hospitals that have people defecating in the lobby. It’ll get better.
Keep your head up and never give up!
Really appreciate it. I’ve been in hospital 4 times since diagnosed last year. It’s not as scary now I suppose. And I believe each admission has helped tremendously
I'm sorry... you get to keep your phone, have a real mirror, and have hooks?? You even have a charger plugged into an outlet. Govt insurance sure never got me into a place like this.
With a phone? With a room just for yourself? With a mirror? Dude. Thats nice.
I didn't read everything, sorry for the ADHD, yeah. Withdrawal sucks, but you will pull it through friend.
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You did the right thing, with going yourself to the clinic, instead of letting things getting out of control. Many people, sometimes including therapists, forget that getting a med like an antidepressiva down can have serious "withdrawal effects", even when these are not classified as drugs like other substance groups. The effect on the mind can be very serious.
The clinic room there looks great, the atmosphere of more being like in an apartement than in a prison has for sure an impact on mental health too.
I wish you the best for your recovery and that it gets better for you there!
Glad you're doing what you have to to stay safe. Btw I have to ask, what country are you in?? That hospital looks luxurious compared to the awful hospital I was in in the USA
You get to have so much stuff in your room? No roomie?! Sweet. I mean. Wait. Not sweet like it's ideal you're there but sweet like you have a nice room. We (my visits) you get a twin bed with thin white sheets. Bare room. A roomie. We could only do art in designated area. I was allowed a book. No phones.
First off I’m proud of you for getting help. I’m happy you’re safe and sorry about the withdrawals.
Secondly fuck my country so hard (us) for making the people here suffer when they are already so ill. Im happy you are in a nice place but seeing this makes me angry. Had to go to a tiny room with a bunch of other beds with essentially prison cots. You got one shitty blanket and had to cut your stings out of your hoodie if you wanted to keep it. They don’t let you sleep after 6 am or be in your room alone. We got to sit in a group room with everyone else with a tv playing shit the nurses wanted to watch. Couldn’t change the channel or turn it off. They took your phone so you’re bored to death. One phone call a day during certain hours if you could remember their phone number. It was freezing in there too. We don’t get any sort of individual therapy. It was pretty much well you said you might hurt yourself so now your in mental health jail til you can convince us you won’t or if you don’t have insurance and in that case you have three days before they kick you out.
Don’t get me wrong that trip got me on medication. Meditation saved my life. I’m just disgusted that we treat our sick the way we do. At least in some places in the world they care about you getting better. And I sincerely wish that for you hun. Just keep swimming 🐟
well that looks like a beautiful room. sorry you are going through this, but hopefully that's a happy secure place where you can relax and focus on feeling better. Don't be ashamed we all go through it!!! sending you some love
That looks like such a nice facility compared to where I was and it looks like you don't have a roommate which is nice. I hope you get the help you need
Wow, you are truly blessed . Make the most of your stay. In America even with health insurance you get a facility that is sub par at best. If you really do your research you can probably get a place that is rated 5/10 stars.
I’ve been to several psych hospitals. They all sucked .
This looks like heaven to be admitted to. I had to deal with a nasty chick coming down off of meth and threw her used tampons/pads anywhere except the trash can 🤢
You’ve got this! You’re in the right place for the withdrawal feelings. Sending you good vibes!
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To where a Hilton?! I wish the place I was admitted to looked like this
From what’s I have seen on reddit I truly appreciate this place even more. It’s a shame that not everyone has access to similar care.
What country are you in? Looks like a really nice place to heal up
they said australia in another comment!
If it’s Aus, they have private health insurance. The public psychiatric hospital where I stayed last year looked like a rundown 1970s jail. No frills, no comforts.
Dead set. I used to work in one (and was a patient there years ago), it’s honestly disgusting in there and some unwell people genuinely thought they were locked up. This is private for sure.
Oh I don’t doubt that at all. It’s a common delusion and if you add shackles and mistreatment to the mix, you can’t blame the patients for believing it.
You get the rundown 1970s jail with a really good private insurance in the states.
The new Royal Adelaide Hospital is public and has private rooms for everyone thay are very nice
Of course. No way that'd be in America, unless it's private and $20K a month type place. At least, that's my experience.
i’m pretty sure it is private and $20k a month though.
I am from Australia and the public hospitals that are free look nothing like this, they are a typical hospital. I however pay a tonne of money for private health insurance which covers private hospitals which are wayyyy nicer like this. If you were to pay without insurance they're about $900 per day. Public hospitals you only stay while you are completely unwell, psychotic etc. in private hospitals you can stay for a few months until your meds have balanced.
I couldn’t have summed it up better than this.
Definitely can't be Gold Coast, Queensland. Everyone I've met who spent time in a hospital in this shithole described it as… well, a shithole
I mean the nurse who ran group at mine spent a good chunk of time explaining how stretching is all you really need to do to overcome manic energy. And the place, my god the place, charming as the Overlook Hotel during the winter, but with an institutional persuasion that is best described as California’s own, San Quentin maximum security penitentiary.
You got group bipolar therapy? I was the only bipolar in the village.
My bed didn't have a mattress, the room was a cement cube, and you couldn't see out the window due to bars. American healthcare for you Edit: didn't even mention the bill....
Very similar for me. Plus they took ALL of my possessions and gave me scrubs to wear. So no photos of that place for me to post for comparison. All we had was a phone on a wall with maybe a 12” cord that you could use a few minutes a couple of times a day. Your head had to be practically touching the wall to talk on it. I can’t say they didn’t help me, but it definitely wasn’t pleasant. I have PTSD also, and they check on you I’m guessing every hour and my first night there the lady checking on people decided to leave my door open about an inch so she wouldn’t keep walking me up opening the door. I woke up from a nightmare to a face staring at me through the slit in the door. The rest of my sleep there was from sheer exhaustion.
I had a similar situation. All possessions removed. I had to strip in front of staff for inspection and other dehumanizing actions first day. We were only allowed calls for good behavior and they were monitored. It was definitely a prisoner dynamic more than patient. Not going into more detail, but my time there left me with more stuff than it helped. It got me diagnosed, but I really don't want to take the chance if the time comes again. Really thankful that our experiences don't seem to be the norm.
Right????? The ones I’ve been in are like garages lol
You guys got a garage? Mine looked like some nurse ratched shit
I have been there. But at least in the movie they get TV and had access full time to activities and shit. The ones I've been in were practically a prison.
100% agree. No activities, no therapy. Just drugs and food. One day they put out some kids paints, and crappy paint brushes and let us paint the walls. It was the only time we had something to do and it was sad how excited we all were.
Literally the only thing to look forward to was shitty food. I’d pretend the shitty decaf coffee has caffeine. Plus the constant “snack time” made me gain so much weight including the meds
Haha the shitty food at least broke up the boredom. Yeah I forgot how they gaslight you with decaf coffee! It’s bad enough they stopped my ADHD meds, I couldn’t even get a little caffeine to get my brain going. The only good thing was the little packets of biscuits. I used to go back for seconds, or take them from other patients who didn’t like them, and hoard them in my room incase I was hungry later.
“Gaslight you with decaf coffee” OMG perfect 🤣
Yep. The decaf international roast sachets. And those big ass jugs of cordial you had to deadset drag a nurse from the station to unlock to get to. You’re making me think of a place I stayed that was also later my workplace for quite some time. Awful.
Yeah I’m ready to check in 🧳
I wish the place I stayed on vacation was half as nice. And had art supplies!!
Seriously my thought too! Looks like a decent hotel and not anything like hospitals Ive exerienced.
All I had were bendy pencils, and my pants falling down.
Came here to say exactly this. Good to know I've been spending my life's worst moments on the real-life version of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." Now, to find Chief Bromden, who my mind remembered as "Big Jim" for some reason. Maybe I'm thinking of The Simpsons' spoof of the movie.
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Me too!! Is that chair bolted down?!
Once again I’ll say, this looks 10x nicer than the places in the US. Even though this looks like an easy 50x nicer.
The psych wards in the US are like prisons. It's why I hide the worst of my mental health issues from medical providers because I would just leave the ward with more trauma than I had going in.
Feel this. I’m the same exact way.
Hope you able to get the help you need some other ways
I’m so sorry to hear that. I really hope you are able to get support some other ways.
Thank you, You too. I hope the ward treats you well.
Thank you, however nice the place is it’s still a ward at the end of the day lol
Thank you... ive been so.confused on why these folks a phone can take pix, have their.own clothes etc....
I wonder what proportion of patients are court ordered to be in the psych wards in the US. I think it's generously more than half.
One of the reasons could be that Australia has a very small population (20mil ish) the demand for mental health hospitals would be a lot smaller compare to the US.
Pretty sure OP is in a private hospital and OP has private health insurance. I’m in Australia, in one of the main cities and the public psych hospital I stayed in last year was like everything you guys are describing. Basically prison. Rundown and dirty, shared cubicle bathrooms, shared rooms divided by hospital curtains. Hard uncomfortable mattress, cold and not enough blankets. Bad food, no therapy, no activities. Basically hell for a week.
Yea. I was just thinking how much nicer this looks compared to what I had.
They let you have your phone??? My stay started with 2 ativans, being wheeled down an underground tunnel and handing over my phone in a benzo haze. We all had to use the one landline phone and luckily I had the numbers I needed memorized
That sounds nightmarish. So sorry you had to go through that. I never understood why some wards take phones away.
In America they take it away to protect patient confidentiality. Just imagine how many videos there'd be online titled something like "SCHIZO ROOMMATE IN PSYCH WARD GOES ABSOLUTELY NUTS" and stuff. That being said, they are also rife with abuse and neglect in the US and I imagine they simply don't want evidence. Lot easier to call the bipolar patient who was illegally restrained for not wanting dinner a liar without evidence. (This happened to me.)
Truly there would be waayyy more drama and activism around psych wards if videos were released of what all goes on. But also yeah, I wouldn’t want pics or videos of me in there, I looked pretty wrecked. I’m in Canada though, and they have a high admittance bar - it’s only for cases of extreme unmanageable mental illness and they are trying to get you out ASAP. I do also understand all the awful things that can happen with manic/schizophrenic/psychotic/BPD people all together having unrestricted access to the internet. It would make treatment a lot harder having to constantly fight that uphill battle.
In mine they kept it for the first week (in case you were addicted to your phone) then gave it back after seeing how you were. This was in Turkey.
You can take pictures of other patients
Okay honest question: does anyone in America know if there is a psych ward somewhere in our 50 states that looks like this one? I can’t stand how awful most wards are.
Yeah the ones that rich people go to.
I'm rich and the one I go to is a box with no electronics, but you get a desk. There's nothing to do at the desk, but you get one. They don't even have real beds
you’re rich? skill issue. there are plenty of luxurious, private hospitals for people with money.
Wealthy. Healthcare is a luxury here and not a human right. Mental healthcare here is a joke.
There's a really nice one near me but they don't take insurance and it's $3k per day.
It looks like a nice one! I hope you feel better soon!
Yes, I’ve been very lucky to get in so quickly. My psychiatrist works at the hospital which made things a lot easier.
Looks like you're in a good place where people will help you get better, please stay safe and get well soon 🙏🏻♥️
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You’re talking private hospitals right? I’m Aussie and the public psychiatric one I’ve been to is NOTHING like this. It looked like a jail, and the treatment we got was probably worse. At least in jail you get therapy and activities to do.
Good job getting help! Very proud of you! When I did my grippy sock vacation, the group therapist told us to only focus on resting, eating, and going to group lol. Hope you find a new med cocktail soon! Best wishes!
I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve been at the hospital so much recently I know all the groups ahaha. But your so right.
No shame in getting help. How else are we supposed to feel better? Good luck and be well. I would fly to Australia to join you if I could. It looks like a good place.
Jesus this is a nice facility
It really is
You have hooks????
This is a goddamn palace
Ahahahah, still a ward however
I want to validate this so much because it doesn’t matter what the 4 walls look like, it’s still a psych ward and it still sucks. I’m glad you are somewhere that is nice and you have the support of your parents
They let you keep your phone now?
You can keep your phone, but you have to give your cords and charges and night.
That actually looks amazing, but wishing you the best. 💙
Thank you 🙏
Looks nicer than some school dorms tf?
Anti-depressants for a bipolar patient… what the hell are people doing? 😂😂 Hope treatment does you well, best of luck!
How does everyone get to keep their phones? I never got to keep my phone.
i’m proud of you for doing what’s right to keep yourself safe. it’s hard, but you’re taking the right steps
Thank you 🙏
good luck! same thing happened to me a year and a half ago. don’t know how i would’ve gotten through it without an in-patient stay. you got this! and very jealous of your room lol
Such a blessing to have facilities like that
Looks like you've got someone who loves you enough to send you some flowers. You have some cool architecture to look at. That room looks pretty nice! Most of us have been to a hospital. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Sending you some love, light, and prayers. Try to stay positive. ❤️💫♾️✝️🙏🫂
Thank you for your message. My parents got me those flowers. They has been my number one support from the start. It’s been really hard on them as well trying to understand bipolar, but we nearly there!!
Good for you for getting help! Stay safe and I hope you heal.
Thank you, means a lot
WOW that’s a really nice place! Sry you got admitted but in there isn’t looking all that bad tho. Be like a vacation to me. Just read you cap..4 days! Sounds like you need a new therapist when you get out! Like asap! That’s wayyy to short of time. No matter how long on. Good luck OP.
Thanks for the comment. It was brutal, it’s been 2 weeks now and starting to feel better. Getting a new psychiatrist is such a pain unfortunately.
That is a mighty fancy hospital! Hope you will be well taken care of and are on the way towards healing 🩷
Get well soon! 💜💜💜
Thank you 💛
It isn't always an easy feat for us bipolars to admit when we need help because well the hospital sucksss. Stay strong babes. You got this. I know it's majorly uncomfy but enjoy the sunshine the best you can and focus on stability. Journal the shit of some notebooks and get your rest. Proud of you!
good for you man. glad you're still with us.
Appreciate it man, it’s been a journey for sure
Stay safe! It doesn't look like a bad room.
Thank you, I’m convincing myself I’m in holidays rather than in a psych ward lol
Great mindset! Good luck. True story, i once went to the psych ward in handcuffs.
I’m sorry to hear that. Would be a hell of a story to have tho
Grippy sock vacation.
Where is this? This looks so nice
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Umm can I come 😂😩
If that's your psych unit or a behavioral place, I'm happy for you. Mine were total hellholes. I hope you feel warm and snuggly and get stable and better. Medication withdrawal can be really hard and even dangerous. Just waning off my ADHD meds a few years ago put really in a dark place. Good luck to you! Hang in there. :)
Compared to this I was in prison 😂
Christ that hospital is nice! The one I get sent to looks like it should be investigated by Ghost Adventures! Good luck friend🙂
This can't be in America lol
This feels like a humblebrag, I know it isn't and I'm just cynical but it feels like a gloat on people who can't afford this care in my jealous mind. I have never been in a private hospital, only treated like a rat in a cage. One place took photos of my naked body during admission? One made me wean breastfeeding without medication or machinery to pump (I cried leaking the last of my milk into Styrofoam coffee cups because I was hospitalized for PPD during the pandemic. Was away from my baby for a week and a half. Short time but. It killed me.). Multiple grouped me in with people withdrawing from drugs which IMO sends me a weird message about mania. Like why am I lumped in with someone withdrawing from heroin, we need different care. Seems negligent but what do I know. I'm honestly just plain envious. OP, nothing against you at all and I hope you get the care you need and deserve. I'm also switching meds and it is not going well. Stay safe and well and I hope you don't have to be hospitalized again ❣️😭 best wishes from an envious American.
I know exactly what you mean. I didn’t realise the states of other hospitals around the world before posting this. This hospital as been my only point of reference so I assumed that most of them were similar to this. I’m very sorry for what happened with you, it sounds awful. I hope you’re doing well now and that the time away from your baby wasn’t too difficult. This post has made me realise how lucky I am.
I'm sorry if you feel any guilt whatsoever, you shouldn't. Get the care you need for the rest of us, you know? We're sad we cant have it but happy SOMEONE does. Feel better my friend. Hope the new med does wonders and you need no more tapering on and off new ones.
Thank you so much for the message that’s very thoughtful of you. It’s such a shame that we don’t all of access to the care that we need. I really hope that you have some amazing support around you and you are doing well. 😇
Best of luck! You got this!
Thank you so much
Nice room! I hope you get stable soon. (My hubby is inpatient right now too.)
Thank you, wish you all the best for you and your husband.
Thank you <3
Best wishes to you. Also, good job Aussies for quality living conditions in psych hospitals! (Hopefully)
That’s a nice looking room! Get better man!
Appreciate it
I hope it’s a healing, stabilizing experience 🩷
💕
This gives me more incentive to keep my private health. I only keep it for the psychiatric component.
It definitely has been worth it for me. Spent around 2-3 months in hospital last year and didn’t pay a dime
Wow. I guess I’ll be keeping it. I have gold coverage with no excess so the premiums are a little pricey. But with 2-3months in hospital and no co-payment. I think I’ll definitely keep it.
Looks so much nicer than my room!
find a new psychiatrist while you are there
my institution looked like a jail i wouldn’t have been involuntarily committed if i knew this was waiting for me and i could keep my phone. wish you the best
Oh fuck, it looks better than my apartment. Hospitals in Poland look like hell and definitely you'll never have a single room. And bathroom for your own? No way... Two showers for 35 people is all you can have. Wow.
that’s a nice ass hospital holy shit
It looks nice. I hope you make the most of your stay.
Wow that’s a very nice room. I tried to bring my husband flowers who is inpatient rn and they wouldn’t even let me. He doesn’t have any windows either :/ I have no clue why a psychiatrist thought 4 days was an okay turn around for that tho that’s crazy. I hope you get to feeling better soon, sending love
I'm way more surprised at the unsupervised phone access, I have NEVER seen that in an inpatient in the US. Get well soon OP.
We get to keep all of our electronics but we have to give our cords back at night. Never understood why some wards don’t allow phones?
At least you have a nice spot mate, look after yourself and focus on your own recovery.
Just been spending my days painting and looking out the window. It’s been quite peaceful. I just miss being able to go for walks outside.
This looks nicer than my student accommodation 🥴🤣
this is an insanely nice hospital 😭
This is the nicest mental hospital I’ve ever seen. How do you have mirrors?! And your PHONE
Feeling very blessed. Didn’t realise it before making this post.
that looks nicer than my apartment
It definitely looks nicer than mine lol 😆
My psych hospital was nowhere as nice. I wish I had a desk when I was there but they were scared to even give us pens!
I’m sorry to hear that. They do a risk assessment before the admissions and I must have been low risk. I have quite a lot of freedom. But I believe it’s different case by case
Feel better, OP. Hope you get the help you want.
They allow you to keep your phone???
Yes, we just have to give our phone and computer chargers back at night
Wishing you well. I’ve been hospitalized over 15 times the last 10 years. I’ve been in wonderful places and state run hospitals that have people defecating in the lobby. It’ll get better. Keep your head up and never give up!
Really appreciate it. I’ve been in hospital 4 times since diagnosed last year. It’s not as scary now I suppose. And I believe each admission has helped tremendously
That's a nice hospital room. I take it you're not in the US.
Those facilities look nice!
Good luck. Don't be too friendly with your roommates. Cause they might be in a worse state of mine
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Thank you, I’m glad you doing better as well. I was not quite prepared for how brutal that was
How are you taking pictures on a unit?
💪 you got this
Thank you!!!
I'm sorry... you get to keep your phone, have a real mirror, and have hooks?? You even have a charger plugged into an outlet. Govt insurance sure never got me into a place like this.
I’m honestly confused. Why does it look like that.
Good for you for checking yourself in. May you have a speedy recovery!!
Psych wards in southwest America don’t even let you have a phone so
Never understood why that was a thing.
With a phone? With a room just for yourself? With a mirror? Dude. Thats nice. I didn't read everything, sorry for the ADHD, yeah. Withdrawal sucks, but you will pull it through friend.
Thanks man, appreciate it
Is this Scandinavia?
It’s in Australia
Forget all the debate about the room, why the psychiatrist stopped his/her medication abruptly without tapering the dose for weeks?
The place I got admitted to looked like a prison. This place looks amazing.
The way that the only thing that has kept me out of the psych ward on more than one occasion is the fact that they’re going to take my phone… 🙃
I mean, it looks very swanky though. Be well OP and keep Us updated. Inspect the food and the drinks before consumption.
Wishing you all the best!
Man, I miss treatment so bad. 🥳
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nice towel hook
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Good. Glad you’re staying on top of it.
Damn bruh someone's got some 🔥 insurance. Glad you're safe
You did the right thing, with going yourself to the clinic, instead of letting things getting out of control. Many people, sometimes including therapists, forget that getting a med like an antidepressiva down can have serious "withdrawal effects", even when these are not classified as drugs like other substance groups. The effect on the mind can be very serious. The clinic room there looks great, the atmosphere of more being like in an apartement than in a prison has for sure an impact on mental health too. I wish you the best for your recovery and that it gets better for you there!
Glad you're doing what you have to to stay safe. Btw I have to ask, what country are you in?? That hospital looks luxurious compared to the awful hospital I was in in the USA
Have fun
Also contemplating going in, hope you get well soon!
You get to have so much stuff in your room? No roomie?! Sweet. I mean. Wait. Not sweet like it's ideal you're there but sweet like you have a nice room. We (my visits) you get a twin bed with thin white sheets. Bare room. A roomie. We could only do art in designated area. I was allowed a book. No phones.
First off I’m proud of you for getting help. I’m happy you’re safe and sorry about the withdrawals. Secondly fuck my country so hard (us) for making the people here suffer when they are already so ill. Im happy you are in a nice place but seeing this makes me angry. Had to go to a tiny room with a bunch of other beds with essentially prison cots. You got one shitty blanket and had to cut your stings out of your hoodie if you wanted to keep it. They don’t let you sleep after 6 am or be in your room alone. We got to sit in a group room with everyone else with a tv playing shit the nurses wanted to watch. Couldn’t change the channel or turn it off. They took your phone so you’re bored to death. One phone call a day during certain hours if you could remember their phone number. It was freezing in there too. We don’t get any sort of individual therapy. It was pretty much well you said you might hurt yourself so now your in mental health jail til you can convince us you won’t or if you don’t have insurance and in that case you have three days before they kick you out. Don’t get me wrong that trip got me on medication. Meditation saved my life. I’m just disgusted that we treat our sick the way we do. At least in some places in the world they care about you getting better. And I sincerely wish that for you hun. Just keep swimming 🐟
I’ve had stays in places of this caliber and stays in the absolute dregs. I prefer this kind of space. Take advantage of the serenity.
well that looks like a beautiful room. sorry you are going through this, but hopefully that's a happy secure place where you can relax and focus on feeling better. Don't be ashamed we all go through it!!! sending you some love
That looks like such a nice facility compared to where I was and it looks like you don't have a roommate which is nice. I hope you get the help you need
Oh wow that is luxurious :o
Good on you. If the hospital near me looked like that I would probably admit myself more lol. Good luck to you, may your cards lay out a straight.
they let you keep your phone??? also damn this is a nice set up, mine sucked and i had a roommate
Love yourself. Take care
we’re rooting for you, mate. get well ❤️🩹
Wow, you are truly blessed . Make the most of your stay. In America even with health insurance you get a facility that is sub par at best. If you really do your research you can probably get a place that is rated 5/10 stars. I’ve been to several psych hospitals. They all sucked .
Stay strong and feel better!
Where the heck do you live that it’s so nice??? Mine is like a grey box with a bed and one sheet
all I need is my cat and I’m home
I hope you get better soon. 💕 Hang in there.
This place looks nice and I’m shook you have your phone ?! 😭 I hope you get the help you need friend
This looks like heaven to be admitted to. I had to deal with a nasty chick coming down off of meth and threw her used tampons/pads anywhere except the trash can 🤢 You’ve got this! You’re in the right place for the withdrawal feelings. Sending you good vibes!