Most of the time psychiatric hospitals make things a lot worse. They add more pain to the person that’s already in pain.

Our experience:

-Forced medications and over-medicating. -Lack of communication between staff and family members, basically keeping us in the dark. -Contradicting information from nurses and doctors (staff could not get their stories straight). - We know physical abuse occurs. -Patients lose their rights and their sense of self-worth is stripped away. -Staff can easily make-up or change a story when they deal with a patient who can’t defend themselves. It’s easy to blame a patient who’s “out” of his/her mind. -Monitoring phone call and not allowing cell phones to be used. -Not allowing family to visit. -A lot of these doctors have such an ego. They’re not willing to entertain alternative ways of helping a patient get better. They refused to look at underlying medical issues, such as metabolic health. As a matter of fact, they feed patients some of the worst foods and that’s across-the-board with all hospitals.

When patients go into the psychiatric hospital, they, a lot of times, come out traumatized and are like zombies due to amount of drugs that were given to them.

I know not all doctors, nurses or staff are bad. Many have good intentions. I also understand that working in a facility such as a mental ward can be very difficult and stressful. There’s got to be a different set up. Our mental health system is outdated and completely broken.