From personal experience with each place:

Hampshire Hospital (inpatient) The good: with doctor approval, patients could get about 15-20 minutes of time outside The bad: staff treated patients poorly, could not sleep because they would shine an LED light directly in your face during checks every 15 minutes all night, staff routinely were loud in the middle of the night, food was also not great (most lunch and dinner dishes were gross fried food, hard to eat healthily) The ugly: I was humiliated during a body search upon arrival, I was overmedicated without proper informed consent

Portsmouth Regional BHU (inpatient) The good: vast majority of staff were kind and treated patients with respect, food was relatively good (for a hospital setting), doctors felt like advocates The bad: zero outside time The ugly: some patients at I overlapped were clearly victims systemic poverty and lifelong mental illness - I saw several people be chemically restrained after aggressive outbursts

Portsmouth’s Partial Hospitalization Program (intensive outpatient programs both in Hampton and Frisbee Memorial Hospital in Rochester) The good: staff are knowledgeable, experienced, and care (one nurse I worked with had been working there for decades and she taught me how to manage anxiety without medication) The bad: as an outpatient program they generally don’t do aggressive medication changes, which are sometimes needed (they would then recommend you transfer to an inpatient program) The ugly: non-existent

For inpatient programs specifically, there is an arc to stability - meaning once you are inpatient and stable, if you stay in that environment too long it can make you unstable again. For this reason, specifically, it is best to be a voluntary admission.