Somehow she still silled her way out in the end.

Looks like the cops heard enough 😏

Your experience with hospitalization is a bit different than mine, but I’m sorry you had such a miserable time there.

Just know you’re in good company here.

@Chopsticks
This is exactly why I don’t talk to doctors. Something is wrong with me but I’m still lucid so I just deal with it. The help is scarier.

@Chopsticks
Suicide Hotline’s motto should be “I know the world is scary right now, but we’re gonna make it way worse!”

@Ciaran
It’s a little nightmarish.

People who’d been to jail said it was really similar except cafeteria food was better, less strict, more boring, group therapies, and instead of gang violence you had people with various states of mental safety.

In TV and movies, they separate people individually or group the “weirdos” elsewhere, but that’s not how it works. Those of us struggling with suicide are mixed with drug addicts/distributors, wife-beating alcoholics, and the sleepless hallucinating schizophrenics/manics having an episode. Some hospitals are better at separation than others, but they pool everyone together to “watch” us first before moving us to different areas… sometimes.

I’ve had creepy girls go in my room, a lady who would lick random items and take your things (and lick them), she licked the telephone, the walls… and the staff are horrible. They once refused to give meds to a girl out of a leg surgery and after hours of screaming in pain they threatened to sedate her, and they did, pinning and strapping her down for being uncooperative. And that hospital was rated the best in the state.

I’ve seen cockroaches that wouldn’t fit in your hand, bugs that littered the ground appearing and feeling like textured flooring, blood in my bathroom, police put me in handcuffs to that place, and staff who monitor some of us at arm’s length even while you showered and used the toilet, and the only activities are coloring books and watching TV. I’ve been forgotten for meal role calls, I’ve seen grieving people wanting to go into their room but they’re denied because they’re being uncooperative and have to socialize. Staff keep going around opening your door to check on you; you must literally sign a waiver of most of your rights. I’ve even had someone sit in a chair and watch me go to sleep. And when they strip-search you pray they have a technician/security of your gender you’re comfortable with.

MY suicidal depression goes away temporarily because PTSD kicks up. I’ve been so scared I nearly hit people. This is where they take you when you’re depressed and you call a help hotline.

She got too silly.

@Chopsticks
Sounds a lot nicer than any of the corporate team building retreats I’ve been on.

@Ciaran
In that environment you are in solitary confinement and they have taken away all of your access to the outside world. Contrary to Hollywood depictions, facilities try not to keep people in there for more than a few hours at most.

They reserve the room for people who are violently unstable and extremely disruptive. Usually they have to sedate you before getting you in there.

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I know because, err, I’ve spent nearly 100 days in various mental health hospitals.

ngl that bed looks comfortable. if they allow laptops, books, and have Wi-Fi, even a nice place for a vacation.

Sounds like a skill issue.

you gotta serious your way out of that one.

That’s quitter talk!

Oh noooo, what happened? Did she finally snap?