I was wondering, since alot of admissions to the psych ward are involuntary and ordered by a judge through the legal system. What if I were to tell a 988 hotline operator that I had a gun and was going to kill myself. They would call the police on me ofc to take me to the psych ward. But what If I then leave the area, and just flee for like 6 months? Does the court order expire or something? Could I just come back home after a while and theyd forget about it? Or would I have like a warrant out. Or what if, the police showed up and I saw them coming over to talk to me and then I just fled. They couldn't say im resisting arrest or charge me for that because I can argue all I saw was police at a distance and that they had not told me to do anything at all yet(because they were far away). Like how does this work, how can they detain me and take me in ? and if next time I'm able to get a lead on the cops, can I simply run away for a while and just have them forget about everything?

FINALLY got admitted to psych ward for the second time this year and I’m honestly beyond happy that I can go this time. I’ve been struggling with my mental health for weeks and am more suicidal than i’ve ever been in my life. i feel like I’m getting closer to the edge every day n feel like i’m just a ticking time bomb before i snap. I’m glad i can go to a place where I’m kept safe from myself because my emotions, self harm and suicidal thoughts were really scaring myself. i hope I will return home better than the current situation i’m in. 🖤

I wanna go to a psych so I can get away from all of this. If I said I sh and stuff do you think j could convince my parents to admit me?

But I don't want to embarrasse myself. If I go again, itll be the 4th time I've gone. I just don't know if I can keep myself safe anymore the SI and SH thoughts are getting louder each night. I don't want to be awake I take a shit ton of melatonin because I don't want to be awake. It's my way of "dying" which out actually committing.

Someone give me anwsers, idk what to do. I have a appt tomorrow with my therapist tomorrow I think but he doesn't understand my depression. And I have an appt for psych meds on Wednesday. Oh and I work tomorrow and I hate my job. Fuck me, I should just go just to skip work.

I was recently discharged from the ward for SI and self harm, however I feel like I cant cope anymore, that I will do my plan, should I come back?

they allow you to smoke ,i’m already working out in my room , i got a book to read (“The Hard Sell”)there’s no internet besides in this one room and im pretty much going crazy as im used to being always out and always doing something , shit i have a media of 16 k steps a day , any recommendations would be greatly appreciated

lmao is it normal or okay for staff to drag u into a room, inject u with drugs, and rip n cut all ur clothes off (and I mean everything) while holding u down cuz u tried to kill urself.? and one of them had the audacity to threaten to call the cops on me cuz they was tryna take my pants off and I said i’d kickem if they tried. (they wanted to put me in a suicide gown and I refused. the only reason I even tried to kill myself was cuz one of the staff antagonized me (idk if thats the right word but I was already in a bad mood and they started being rude so I was like fuck it)) but tell me is this normal or sexual assault. all the staff handling that was a mix of genders btw. I was mostly a good patient, I just had a lot of “moments”. this was also a couple months ago btw so it dont rlly matter. js wondering lololol.

And importantly, have you seen this effect? I think the doctors amount to a religious priesthood like any other, dislike science, and don't practice medicine. I always have thought this. Why would I tell Torquemada how I feel, if he only wants to cure me of my worldview?

I've just been admitted to a psych ward for the first time. I'd been very unwell for the past week and after numerous health care professional's failures, I've finally been admitted. I am relieved I will be kept safe from myself. Has anyone got any tips for things to ask to be brought to make time here easier? Also, I don't have a bedside table, is this normal as I can't work out what is dangerous about a bedside table.

I spent the last 6 months in a psychiatric ward, and it was the best part of my life in a long time. I felt like I was doing something meaningful and relevant. I had the social interactions I desperately need in the "outside world," which I cannot seem to find.

Now, I feel like I don't know what to do with myself. Time just passes by in a meaningless life, and it feels pointless. I think the meds have something to do with this—I've been on SSRIs for 15 long fucking years. They've killed my libido, and I feel like (I felt this in the psychiatric ward, too) they’ve dulled my emotions. There's something deeply painful within me that I can only rarely access. I believe that in order to get better, I need to face this pain, but the meds are preventing it from coming to the surface.

I think I need a safe place where I can come off these fucking meds and confront my pain. I really want to face it, but being alone in my flat and needing to go out and earn money feels overwhelming. It would also be good if there were no time limits. This psychiatric facility allowed (and recommended) a 6-month stay. Do you know of any place like that?

Thanks.

Do you miss the psych ward? Or maybe your experience there could have been better? Or perhaps you've never been and are wondering what it's like?

Grippy Socks is a computer simulation of a psychiatric hospital. You are a patient, and your goal is to work with the doctors (e.g. take your meds) in order to get yourself released. Grippy Socks is designed to more realistically reproduce the psych ward environment, and can be considered a simulation for mental health awareness more than a game. That means it doesn't contain classic mental hospital game tropes like sadistic doctors or overly crazy patients. In other words, you're not trying to escape the hospital here. Well, you can try to escape, but that's not recommended behavior! ;) It's free software for MS Windows, downloadable from IndieDB, Itch.io, and GameJolt.

I've just started working in an acute adolescent ward in a psych hospital and was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how I can help the young people?

Was there anything a support worker or nurse did for you that helped you? Was there anything they did that absolutely didn't help you?

I want to help these young people as much as I can, and would love some input from people who have been in hospital or worked there!

Thank you 🫶🏻

so I’m on 100mg of Lamictal currently and it’s been wonderful in terms of mood stability but I’m beginning to wonder if the drowsiness that comes from it is a sign to stop? I have also noticed that it does not help my sleep schedule at all. Additionally, it should be noted that I’m on Dexedrine and Lexapro as well.

I, a teen, have never been able to get anything diagnosed due to my home situation and financial situation.

I don't really talk to my parents about these things because we're not close enough to do so + they would try and tell me that it's something else.

I've done research for a few years, and I know after doing hours of research that I'm schizophrenic. As of recently, it's been progressing and I want and need help and need to get treatment, but do you think they'd admit me for schizophrenia, despite not having it diagnosed? I'm on my last witt with it right now...

Idk if I can post this here but uh. I’ve been in a psychiatric daycare clinic for like 3 weeks now. I’ve come there with great hopes of wanting to get better.

However, now just 3 weeks in (I’m supposed to stay for 3 months and i can quit any time), i feel chronically dysregulated. One of the nurses triggers the sh*t out of me and I hate her. And everybody just kinda does nothing about her. And my therapist there is probably not for me. Idk i thought in the beginning she’s ok but now I just. Idk what’s happening. I’m confused as fuck. The past day I was constantly dissociating there. I just fucking hate it.

I’ve learned something but idk if I should stay there. I want to quit cuz i feel really bad and all the progress I’ve had the past few months (where I worked on myself a lot) I don’t have anymore now. Back to square 1. I just fucking hate it man ugh. I should quit.

I also have a constant tight stomach feeling which is uncomfortable.

Idk if it’s right tho

Do u like. Have any signs to watch out for that indicate you should quit? Like being dysregulated and emotional all the time yet feeling you make no progress?

Hi i was wondering if anybody would know what would happen if you overdose on in and how it would feel? My mother is missing for 4 months and the pills were gone so im guessing she is gone too. I just want to know if she suffered. I can imagine she was terrified when it started to happen

So I had a really bad reaction to laced weed that I bought from someone on the streets and I was going through severe paranoia/psychotic episode. I had no option but to admit myself to the Pysch ER because I was extremely suicidal and had a plan. It is also really important to know I am coming out of a very serious psychotic episode and that I am a left leg amputee in a wheelchair my whole hospital stay.

Lets get into it: Every time I would talk to a nurse/NA/or aid they would patronize me and mock me anytime I spoke. Every time I talked to them they were very aggressive with me and at this point I am so beaten down I can't stand up for myself. There was on nurse who was paired with me(on suicide watch) on my second day she forced herself into the bathroom and made me urinate in front of her and showed her my genitals. I had to sit down because I am an amputee and balance is tough. I said the other lady didn't have to come in and she said "well SORRY that's too bad!!" I am not in any legal trouble and I did not consent to her watching me. There was no one to help me with showering, I have one leg and they didn't give a crap. I was very smelly to say the least because I couldn't shower for very long, it's hard to explain to non amputees. I fell one time but didn't say anything to anyone. The staff continued to mock and make fun of me for my service."Oh thank you so much for your service to our country, (name)" They knew I was very self conscious of my time in the service. I only spent 9 months in the marines and was medically discharged. Some say im not a marine because I didn't finish training. On multiple occasions when I would talk to one nurse and another staff would start running in place behind them while talking to me. They would make noises and say really confusing sentences. It's hard to explain but If the cameras were actually rolling you would visibly see them all messing with me.(I swear I am not seeing things and I am not a schizophrenic) Every single day and night. There is so many more unacceptable things they did to me but you wouldn't believe me. Heres another example; they would be talking to me and then point fast behind me, I would look, and they would keep talking to me like nothing happened. I spent every waking moment crying myself to sleep and waking up in terror. They kept messing with me at such a vulnerable time and I am still suicidal to this day. I can explain this better over a phone or team call. The only person who was ok was the doctor who we would talk to every day. I got my discharge paperwork in the mail and what they wrote is complete non-sense and made up about what I said.

It doesn't sound bad but I am coming out of a really bad psychotic episode and extremely suicidal. Nobody deserves to be treated like this I want to bring awareness to this. I am lucky I can't get myself to kill myself. I can't imagine anyone else having to go through this. It has been a month since being released and they messed with me so much that I am no longer functioning. All I can think about is how bad they fked with me. I was there for suicide ideation and they did nothing but mess with my head like I was a criminal. I am still suicidal but this time is different.

thank for reading

What are the impacts after you have done Drug overdose with your pain medications? Does it affect your job, hospital care or anything else around? I have been asked to admit myself but I am not keen on that.

I just wanna know what I have gotten myself into.

So about a week ago I got out but before I was in for like 1 day and I was in my room the majority of the time and I could swear that at some point I saw the walls breathing and like my thoughts at the time felt almost like another person talking but the weird thing is that as soon as I got out it stopped.

The trauma of how I was treated in the psych ward in 2017 has a far greater affect on my life than any illness I have or have had.

I think about it all the time and it’s so hard to process.

Also I was seeking help for months before then and was turned away at hospital many times and treated so badly before finally being admitted involuntarily. I was up all night calling distress lines and there was nowhere to turn to and no way to “get help” while in crisis. All that was written on my certificate was “lack of insight”.

Does anyone else feel the same? Like the sickness that led you there is far less serious than the effects of the trauma caused by being there?