What's it like in the psych ward?

[narkoman]

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[Gaythugmax]

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[HappyChud]

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in ours it's all white walls creepy lights and shit food

 

[pretty little liar]

Depends. It varies from clinic to clinic and from ward to ward.
I assume you're asking about open psych wards.
The open ones I was in were somewhat tolerable. Two of them were renovated not long before I was there, so their enteriors looked rather good. The one that wasn't looked rather bad and that made me feel kinda bad. In one of the other wards, on the other hand, my room almost seemed like a good hotel room.
In two of them you could have single bedrooms, but in one out of those two only if you were privately insured or paid for it out of your own pocket. To me, single bedrooms are a must. Otherwise you'll have to go on an obligatory no-fap streak for the duration of your stay (unless you lock yourself up in the bathroom or so). Also, some patients can just be annoying to deal with when you share a room with them.
Anyway, I think the better you're prepared for a stay there, the more tolerable the experience is. I personally don't have many mobile devices and am not that well-adjusted for staying outside of my house for long periods of time, so I felt like a lot of things I was used to at home were missing. For example, I didn't have my PC there to play Hearthstone Battlegrounds and no big screen mobile device that could run it smoothly. Some wards even have stuff like a PC or a Switch 2 at least, but it's of course different from using your own stuff.
Other important preparation is making sure you have enough mobile data for your entire stay, considering most wards I was in didn't give you WIFI. You should also get your favorite foods in advance and bring them there. Sure, the meals there are free, but I often didn't find them that good and aside from that they weren't that balanced. The reason why I said to bring your foods in advance is that even in an open ward there might be restrictions on how much and where you can be outside of the hospital, especially in the beginning. So you might not be able to just buy foods right after your submission to the ward.
Lastly, you should make sure to get your important chores done before having yourself submitted into the ward, considering that the abovementioned restrictions could prevent you from doing them, since you won't be able to freely go everywhere you want.
The therapies weren't really helpful during my stays and I'd say overall they didn't help me.
There are, however, some therapies I didn't try out yet, but would like to in the future that are usually exclusively offered in in-patient psychiatric wards. I wouldn't stay at a ward again, though. Instead, I'm trying to get said treatments through other ways, right now.

All in all I wouldn't recommend in-patient stays at psychiatric wards, but it might be worth it for others.