The mental hosptial I went to basically has you strip naked, throws all your belongings into a plastic bag, and makes you put scrubs on. Then you go into the ward and the lock your stuff up in the office. You share a room with someone, no electronics, no personal belongings. You get premade meals 3 times a day, and there is a shower room that's only open in the morning and afternoon. You get 3 options. Walk around in circles all day in your scrubs and socks, draw in a coloring book, or watch CNN on the TV in a room with plastic chairs. It's always cold, the beds are hard, the pillows are flat, and the bed sheets are thin. This is basically 100 times better.
if this joke was about cancer i wouldn't be the bad guy who's always offended? everyone needs to take mental illness seriously other than that yeah i have anger issues what are you going to do about it? :)
+anna brown nah. Ive been there for 2 months and its fine. You take your medics and watch tv. Smoke cigarettes outside and talk to everybody. There is a lot of weirdo tho. But some are normals.
+ilovejellyfish when I stayed at one we just watched TV and talk and colored. We wort aloud to go outside unless we had a supervisor with us or if we had a group that took us outside
Zeon :D he’s in it for suicidal reasons, or at least another comment he made hinted towards it. I don’t think he’s crazy, I think he’s really bored. Edit: he also said in the description that he didn’t start taping things to the walls until after a week and a half
What?? I just got out yesterday and my mental hospital made us get rid of everything. No shoes. No outside time. No phone or electronics. They dehumanized us. Broke us down and acted like they helped us by drugging us. Sleeping was the hardest part because people would scream and pound doors. You were isolated in a room from 11 pm-6am with vitals checked every 3 hours. And blood drawn at 5 am. Breakfast was served at 8:30 but it was so hard waking up when you've been basically tranqulized. Staff was terribly rude and didn't care. We had 1 hour of visiting time 6-7 pm. Food was awful my feet still hurt like crazy cause of not having shoes. And then they would mop the floor so your socks would get wet and they would wouldn't give you a new pair. They dehumanized you.
Ikr? I’m not from the UK but I wasn’t even allowed to have a real brush in the hospital. Leggings were banned too, because they’re stretchy so they’re somehow dangerous?
I've been to a psychward. They make people worse. I hope humanity evolves this aspect of treating already broken people in a way that doesn't hurt them even more. Realize the reason someone is dangerous, how they got there mentally is because of suffering. I don't believe they need anymore of it.
I'm not saying your experiences and your points aren't valid. There's still a lot we have to learn and change regarding the way we treat mental illness and people who suffer from them - I'm not trying to refute that in any way! I personally just wouldn't say psych wards/mental hospitals make people worse. Everyone's different and there are also many people - me included - who can say that a hospitalization due to mental illness saved their lives, or at least made it better than it was before. The system has problems, sure, but it still does work for many people. I feel bad for everyone who had bad experiences (being mistreated, abused etc.) with it - that should definitely not happen to anyone!
@7E_NER_IE7 My experience is as valid as yours though...? And the fact that being in a mental hospital helped me (personally, multiple times already) doesn't invalidate any of your experiences. I was there because I have schizoaffective disorder and without the right meds and therapies, I hear voices and see things that aren't really there and I can't seperate my delusions from reality. That's no way to live and I'm happy I got help and still continue to get it, actually... just not in a hospital but through my pychiatrist (meds) and my therapist (therapy, obviously). As I said, I'm sorry for what you went through, but please don't call me naive for speaking my truth.
I’ve actually been to several and never had that experience the ones I’ve been to they’ve always wanted to help the patient and get them better but shieeeeet I don’t know wtf you went lmfaoooo
@@Tintenfischchen it sure as fuck wasn't good for me to be surrounded by braindead maniacs for 5 days because of suicidal tendencies, that experience didn't help me at all.
Depersonalization, disempowerment and coercion used to induce a desirable mindset or behavioural pattern. Psychiatry works differently depending on where you had the luck to get born.. Hardly a way to stop anyone from killing themselves. More like the opposite Edit to comment: Big part of the problem is lack of funding and research. I don't think this is what anyone wants tbh
I spent a year in this place, with no violence towards staff or patients while i was there. There are separate facilities for violent or unmanageable cases. They are much like this one, but with stricter rules and more clinical personnel. I heard good things and bad things, one friend of mine says the rules actually helped him feel safe. People do not go there "just" for being suicidal either, 24-hour observation was used from what i saw.
I think all the sedatives being handed out might have something to do with it! Well, and the fact that most of the people there didn't seem to know how to care for themselves.
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean exactly, but I wouldn't say that about people because it could seem dehumanizing, and it can sound like your calling somebody crazy. Most people end up in mental hospitals because of suicide attempts, depression and things that could harm themselves.
Tell me what "normal" is though? Because he is normal in his own way. Just because someone for example fights schizophrenia or mania episodes doesn't mean they aren't "normal". So my question is to you, what is normal?
"you could feal it, if your fingers were coming out of the camera" so creative. i would have just said "if you were here, you could notice it" lol im gonna steal that line
Why not make asylums/mental hospitals more comfortable & pleasing looking for its patients instead of looking & feeling like a prison ? Those places boosts their insanity
This would never happen in US facilities. It is illegal to even have cameras, phones, laptops etc inside. It's also a violation to film inside since, you violate everyone's privacy.
It's not illegal for patients to bring in those items. If a HCP (health care professional) did that, for example started taking random pictures of patients for non medical reasons than they would be violating HIPAA and that would be a crime. But a patient can't be charged with violating HIPAA laws because they are not a medical professional. Although you're not allowed to have phones and cameras it wouldn't be illegal for a patient to sneak one in. Like I snuck my phone in don't worry I wasn't sharing people's info but I wanted contact to my friends and RU-vid and lawyer incase they did anything wrong which they have. I had it in my hospital gown pocket with charger just hanging out there where it was really obvious but they missed it. I should've kept it on me because I went to group and they like to search your rooms during group and throw your stuff around and take "contraband" but I had my phone plugged into the outlet which for some reason they have when you could easily hurt yourself with the electrical outlet! But yeah they took my phone and I got it back when I left a few days later lol. They wouldn't give me medical care at the hospital literally right across the parking lot. I had to stay up all night so I wouldn't die in my sleep. But I was gonna say that the lower security or shorter stay psych ward in my town has computers with internet. They allow us to use them for work or school or education. But if you get caught going on RU-vid or Facebook they will stop you.
They've got you on a long leash at that place. When I was in the hospital we couldn't even have MP3 players, much less film and walk around the hospital. Maybe it's bc I was in a psych ward and you're in a full out hospital. Sigh that place looks amazing.
Kati e I was in one before and you weren't even allowed to have you're own shoes, you weren't allowed to have phones or anything like that but it was cool
I had a close friend my last year of high school who was admitted to a mental hospital after her mother was murdered. Not this kind though. More like the bars on the window, straight jacket, padded room type hospital
When I went to parkwood they took the laces off my shoes, we were locked in a room unless for meals, activities, shower/ bed, and meds. When we went to sleep they would lock our bedroom doors
Haha your laugh is so funny when you were like "I forgot to flush" haha you have a charming personality! But one question, I don't understand why everything seems to be made of glass, what if one of the patients flipped out? Everything would get broken
+savii Nicole Patients that are considered a danger to themselves and others are housed in a different type of unit. They must be pretty good at determining it, 'cause nobody broke anything when i was there!
my step-dad is always using this to get me to behave whenever he says something in his language,which he was abused by his parents and he's trying to leak it out onto us.whenever he says something negative i have to tell him off,but he thinks i am going goofy.i can't stand it. i don't got no money and the town around me or outside doesn't suit me.
Because you can appear totally normal and be ill,but glad for him that hospital look nice,kind of the same here in belgium,they are just normal hospitals,but for mental illness.but still i would not want to be locked in there,if my parents figured out that i harmed myself with a scissors twice,i would probably already be in there.
My little brother had to spend time in a mental hospital because he was having hallucinations and abused my mom without even realizing that he was doing something bad. He still does, but he gets away with it because he has Autism.
They can still be taught right from wrong but some people just never teach their disabled kids 'you cant do that' so they continue to. He may be too far c=gone but it couldve been peveted
Its not always the parents' fault...my kid knows right from wrong. S/he is just hellbent on doing what s/he wants to damn do anyway. Its called Oppositional Defiance.
RealRap_365 are you actually serious? there's a difference between discipline and child abuse. incase you havent noticed, the older generations are more polite and kind where as the younger generations are fuck tards. hm i wonder why...
This is NOTHING like the hospital I was forced into! I was not allowed to have ANY electronics, or outside clothing. We were given scrubs to wear and were not allowed to have shoes except for the ones they issued you when you went outside. We shared a room with 6 people altogether, and we were not allowed in our rooms at all unless it was lights out. We were required to sit in a room all day together, and wait for meals and group therapy. We were constantly cussed and beaten up by security too.
+Allysa The Queen Spud I'm 14 and I had to go to a mental hospital for 8 weeks because my foster parents thought something was wrong with me. I had a laptop but no internet. I got 1 phone call every 2 weeks and 1 visit every 3 weeks. I was the second youngest in there...the youngest was 10 and they put us together and said that we would get along. She scared the shit out of me. I would sit next to her and she looked like she was on drugs..like a horror movie. I asked her "How long are you in here for?" And she looked at me and smiled "Until I die.." I was like 'Your parents?" And she started screaming "They are dead! Dead! And they haunt me in my sleep now leave me alone before I kill you and your family." ( I think she had anger issues but she scared the living hell out of me..) Anyway we didn't talk after that. When i was packing my bags to go, she looked at me and was all "Be grateful...you don't have to suffer like me, people don't know what they do to us in here...its horrible.." ( So they must have beat her and drug her and i also noticed she was chained to the bed by her leg it was horrible and now I'm with my grandma and auntie ) I feel bad for her...should i go visit her maybe?
+Clementine garcia , hi. People say that most prisoners on deathrow, or with lifetime sentences, had a terrible life as a kid. Mostly because of violence or drug abuse amongst their parents. And you know by now how badly things can go with fosterparents too. I sincerely belive visiting her regulerly would be one of the kindest things you could ever do :)
+Clementine garcia (frightened) :rolleyes: Wow... I can relate..I'm 55..I was at Camarillo, but thankfully only for two or three months....what you described sounded worse..I was treated like a n-----r and I am white.
How did you get a camera in there? I was in a psychiatric ward, and I couldnt even wear my own clothes because they was afraid i could kill myself with them. All i could bring was one book.
Peeper McBeeper im scared i dont want to go to a mental hospital, its crazy you cant even bring a plushie! Or any of your belongings. I think i would go crazy
I love how he’s so happy and excited to be there it’s adorable! Btw I’m writing a story about a girl living in a mental hospital so I’m watching RU-vid videos to help me brainstorm!
The mental hospital I went to was nothing like this. We weren't aloud to close the doors, we had roommates, no jewelry, no electronics, couldn't even have shoe laces. Not aloud to leave the main room until time to eat or time for gym. All the doors are locked, the rooms we stayed in were locked during the day. And the staff often pushed us into walls and stuff like that. Some people got sedated and strapped to bed. Even though the hospitals aren't as bad as they used to be, most of them aren't as nice as you're making them seem.
Mallory Waters most of the mental hospitals I went to actually let you smoked cigerates, that's if you were on the grown up side. but its not that bad today as it was in the past.
Oh and hoodies weren't allowed either. You couldn't layer clothing and pencils and erasers aren't allowed unless you have specified permission. I got us banned from markers, I have a chewing problem (it's a stim thing) and I chewed up a couple markers. I like Lakeland, it's nice ish there, heartland felt like prison though. They had similar rules though.
I was in a psychiatric hospital for 10 months. It has completely traumatized me. My anxiety is always out of the roof. I can't eat in front of people. I have been hospitalized 4 times in 2 years.
I still remember when I was 10 years old somebody forced me into a mental hospital for a short interview and it was Scary!!! They forced me to play with stupid fricking children's toys and told me to sit in a corner!!!! I was scared!!!! I hate it!!! They hugged me and I felt horrible!!!
When I went to a mental hospital no one was aloud to have anything but cloths and what they gave us and we weren't aloud to roam around either and we had no windows it's interesting to see how different mine from yours is
+Charlotte Gross I hope everyhting is better for you too, CG. I was at Camarillo (supposedly the notorious Eagles1977 "Hotel California" song asylum but disproven;well the Eagles did record on ASylum Records) in 68, no iPods, cells, or such back in those days..
+Charlotte Gross It's apparently very different from place to place. I talked about that a bit in the new interview! Heard some horrible stories from people who've been hospitalized in Africa and eastern Europe. Mental healthcare is a new field, there's not much standardization in how things are done, from what i can tell. o:
I disagree. If you go in relatively sane (depression or a personality disorder), you'll definitely leave more insane. If you go in bat shit crazy with terrible schizo disorders, you'll leave the same.
Just a polite question... why do people in the USA call these places Mental Hospitals - psychiatric hospital is more acceptable in the UK.. yes the mentally ill go there but they are there as they have psychiatric conditions/difficulties/problems
Joe White Everyone keeps trying for more political correctness i suppose. Sounds bad. I'd call them psychiatric inpatient units, but that name is so damn long! In my experience, patients like to use terms like "the nutter" and "finger paint land" most of the time :D
MortenErCrazy Yeah guess you are right, I have Bipolar and have been in the ''bin'' ''funny farm'' ''holiday inn'' during periods of mania. by my own admission lol. It was dumb of me to ask that question in the first place Psych hospitals are a commen term over here but that is just a short way of saying psychiatric hospital
Joe White Holiday inn lol, i like that one At least we can joke about it, less grim that way! Good luck with managing the bipolar, that can be a tough nut to crack. Good friend of mine has it. When you guys have mania it's like you're on cocaine :D
I wished I lived in Denmark and could go to a nice mental hospital like that. The ones I've gone to in America have been straight shit and traumatizing. I hope you got better though!
I know that in Brazil, if you have money, you can put your love ones in a special Mental Hospital. It's a paradise, at least the facade of the place. And the place is very famous and fancy. Gosh I forgot the name of the place, when I was 14 years old I was babysitting a woman that had mental illness and sometimes in her severe crisis went back to this place. She went back to this place whenever she gets out of control and violent towards her mother and the employees. It's pretty scaring. She almost desfigure her mother just with one nail scratching. I was just 14, and I knew how to deal with her without making her violent towards me. She really liked me, other employees always quit the job. My job was just to be company for her watching tv with her, talking to her, going out with her, taking food and medication to her bed. I had to be very creative to distract her. You know those maids that have cute, nice uniform. I wore those uniform to babysit her. It was very challenging. You need a lot patient. Now I don't know if the drugs/prescriptions made her worse, and I believe it did. She said she became schizofrenic when she was 18 years old, and she was 50 when I started babysitting her.
I like how optimistic you are! You don't look sad or angry at all, i do think it's hard to live with a mental illness, I really hope you are doing fine!
3:37 the writing on the door is in norwegian, we have amazing mental hospitals and jails here its pretty nice. People get the help they need and aren’t left to survive on their own. Most of the people that go out of jail don’t comitt a crime again. And people from mental hospitals get much help. Its very unlike any other systems, but it works.
Your room was a mansion compared to mine. I didn't have a computer or tv in my room, and the bathroom door was a foam pad velcroed to the door frame. And there was not much to do besides arts and crafts, playing card games, or watching tv, but that gets old quickly. The most enjoyable part about going there was being allowed to have my clothes and roam the hallways.
This is considered really high quality for a psych hospital. They will rarely have a gym like that. They also give their patients a lot of liberty here.
I think this good standard of treatment of patients in psychiatric wards is brilliant, if not improvable, (I don't know much about the standard of psychiatry in my darling Northern Ireland, but I know we lack services for children suffering from depression/ similar, and serves over all (though I have a friend who got some v. good treatment when 16 for depression)), I'm sorry to hear you had nothing to do in the ward (though ofcourse this is not true if in retrospect it gave you needed reflection time or something), and thanks for sharing this!
@@thegamesbrotherssvk5135 it’s really nostalgic. Like 2000s recording nostalgic. It’s kind of nice in a way, being able to see everything through this lense
@@very7962 I recorded it with an old digital hobby camera, of the kind many people got for their birthdays in the 00's - So that might have something to do with it!
I was in a "Mental Hospital" and I'm not fucking crazy, if that's the word to even use. There are several reasons why people go there. I went because my therapist is a little bitch and thought I should just go to be observed, even though it wasn't even a good enough reason. (I recently found out I had major depression.) So, while being "observed", which took about 10 days, I learned people go there if they severely misbehave, if they aren't quite yet into foster care, and many other reasons-- other than the obvious. The people aren't all in one place. They have different units for different cases. Most of the teens that I was with had depression and anxiety. The nurses sucked ass, and never set their priorities straight. All in all, never go to one and never send anyone there unless they really, really need to be sent there.
I was preasured to go to mental hospital too,they are nothing but pretty prisons, especially for relatively normal,just a bit eccentric people like me, when you are in one room with real schizo for a week listening to all his nonsense,with nothing to do,thats, when you really are starting to go crazy. by the way Fun Fact in soviet union: dissidents and just about anybody, who tought a bit differently from norm, was put in mental institutuions,just a food for tought. ( i don't think of myself as a threat to system,but who knows,oh man im starting to sound crazy ; D)
Janis Ladigs Wow, one one my friends shared a room with someone who was a little... "off". They could hardly handle it. And the Soviet Union is absurd. Sorry you had to go through going to one of these places.
Naomi Montes Thanks for Your support, I think no matter where you live mental hospitals aren't nice places, i for example rather spend a week in actual prison than in looney house, at least there are 'normal' people. And in ex-soviet country so called psychiatry specialists are still practicing 30 year old treatments(basicly druging people up to the max),mixing hevaly ill patients, with people who just need to get away from shit for a week or two and be monitored to get proper drugs..damn they even steel in all seriousnes put weed and heroin in same category..these 'professionals' here should be locked in asylums themselves.
xdreamlandx No, no, it's fine. The normal day is in the middle of the night the nurses come and take your temperature and some other things. They asked you if you pooped, which was weird and I never really answered. Then we go back to sleep. At around 7:30 we have to get ready. I usually braided my hair the day before so it didn't look like a mess and I only had to brush my teeth and spray a little perfume before making my bed. We were aloud to have make-up but we were restricted on what we could have so I didn't even bother having my mom bring me some. Anyways, after making our bed we would all have to wait in the day room, which is just a room with some chairs, couches, a table and a radio. Then a nurse comes and says, "Line up ladies, time fore breakfast!" We all have to have on shoes so I would put on my nike slides. When we went down stairs we would see the rest of the teens and kids. We would always be sad to see such small children already being depressed so we would secretly talk to them, (We weren't aloud to talk to anyone other than the teenage girls that were in there.) After breakfast they would ask us what we ate.
Yeah. Psychiatry is a guessing game at best. I have been diagnosed with MDD with psychotic features, Aspergers, Bipolar II and oh yeah, I have an injury to my left frontal lobe. On disability because mentally I am shot out! Have had several bouts in a psych ward but never a hospital like this. I take Prozac and Gabapentin. I feel like a lab rat on these medications. I also take prescribed pain medication for a screwed up back. Sorry to ramble but I do that a lot sometimes. I am intelligent and I compose music for film and TV and build computers but the auditory hallucinations will not leave me alone!!!
@@chelseakatie02 Yes, most likely. I stopped taking the gabapentin and the hallucinations have somewhat resided. But the fact of the matter is, I still have that frontal lobe injury. It sucks!
about "psych hospitals make people worse".... you put in work you leave better off. others, maybe 25% of patients, get admitted have zero insight and once exposed to actual rules and structure, away from their enablers and their favorite avoidance methods , they get the prisoner mentality and just throw tantrums like little kids their 1st day of kindergarden. Half of them just kill time in their rooms, cheeking their meds not going to any groups and muttering "I dont belong here!! IM NOT CRAZY i just wanna go home where i dont have to do anything and mommy makes my bed and brings me bagel bites!" Had a rotten time at the psych hospital? its not a day camp its a place to re-evaluate your life and make a plan to get out of your routine thats harming both yourself and the people who care about you.
I think you're doing very well. My baby brother used to live in a place like this. Try to keep busy when you're feeling well, You look like you've got a handle on things-God bless
I've only been on a 72 hour psych hold because of an unintentional drug overdose. Like I was popping pills and drinking for fun. But it was a throughly traumatizing experience and one I wouldn't want to repeat. I'm sure it was worse for the security guards who had to handle my mess of a self. They were pretty taken off guard when I came to and was 100% lucid and normal sounding. Nothing like waking up in handcuffed to a hospital bed that makes you reevaluate your decisions in life.
I got out of an ER psych ward 2 days ago. In a fucked up way, it made me realize I had a lot to live for, simply because everything outside of it was so much better.
You're alright man; thanks for sharing. I wish I had a camera to document and analyze my behavior and their conditions especially when they're trying out new drugs in me
That place is a frigging palace compared to the one I was certed in. No personal belongings until a full week or stay, they changed me coming voluntarily to being certed for fourteen days for asking for soap, toilet paper, and shower stuff...... I kept saying please then they injected me with geodon for keeping on asking people to please do their jobs.
not everyone in a mental hospital is suicidal you know. if he had a drug problem he might have been able to have a phone and a window/along those lines
This is not a state mental hospital at all. Not even close. As others said, this is a rehabilitation facility. You would NOT be able to walk around with a camera in a state-run treatment facility.
jeff the killer Jeffrey woods he has schizophrenia my uncle has it trust me he seems normal same for my uncle but then his schizophrenia kicks in and all of a sudden he says weird things you can understand and he says random scientific things that don't make sense
Why they don't allow them to have phone? The patients could use the phone to interact with friends, families. You wonder why these patients get crazy or crazier.
@@tutsecret499 it's not our rules. We just have to go by them. They say it takes the interaction away from group and what they should be focused on.. I find it odd.. but, I don't make the rules!
@@rachelr.n.3563 I was trying to say that the place is already a hell, then no phone, no this, not that. These individuals should be kept busy doing tasks, painting, playing instruments, knitting, crochet, chess. Keep the brain busy, not drugging them up. Listening classic music. You wouldn't like to have your daughter in this place. When you hear the horrible sound from the patient when they being carried by force and injecting stuff on them, pay attention of the agonizing sound even from a very muscular, tall and very strong guy, and they beg not to do it that indicates that this drug injection has something behind horror. I was watching videos about these institutions, it gives me chills, even before they open the gate, just the facade the bldg that looks like came out from horror movies. Then environment should be healthy. They beg not go to these places and beg not to be drugged up, that indicates a lot red flags and concerns. SCARING and DISTURBING.
