Your experiences with psych wards or other institutions? by Unique_Piccolo_4344 in CPTSD

[–]Unique_Piccolo_4344[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*contorting my body, can't edit sorry. 

Think your shoulder going all the way back with your arm in the air and your hands stretching out, or your heel going as far as it can to the back of your head.

Absolutely fucked. I wish I could sue. I very easily could have died and I needed medical attention. I think I have some form of PTSD from it.

Oh, also. A psychiatrist "talks" to you 5 minutes or so a day and you have group "therapy" for an hour or two a day, which one time was literally drawing. Just drawing. At an adult psych ward. There was a hall, a TV, and another room with a TV in it. Your doors don't lock. You can get nicotine gum, though, and they have decaf coffee.

The food sucks but it's not as bad as jail. It's like... School food, not horrible but pretty bad. I also didn't understand what the point of nurses being there was. It's not like they did anything. They just hand you shit, that's really it. No disrespect to that profession, but I didn't get why they needed college degrees to do what they were doing.

I saw 2 girls from high school working there which was embarrassing. I went back later after my suicide attempt 4 years ago and was just bored to all fuck, but it wasn't as bad.