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Have you ever had to stay in a psych ward?

Yes, a few times throughout my 20's for psychosis. It was perhaps a safe place for me when my mind was in a vulnerable state, but I don't think they really helped me any. They just suppressed my dopamine levels with their zombifying pills and told me that everything was going to be ok, and not to worry about the things I was worried about.

I've had mixed feelings about being there. I'd wanted to go, but as soon as I got there, I wanted to leave. I felt like a lab rat which they were studying, which I liked in a weird way, and a bit true I guess, but I also found it frustrating. I feel like they learned a lot more from me than I did from them. The last time I went, they actually wouldn't let me stay, and so off I went homeless into the street in a bad way, until I eventually, and miraculously, found my way to better days by self determination and a will to survive.

I don't feel as though they helped me understand myself or my "brain chemistry" and what it should be in any real way.


What are your experiences with psychiatrics , if any?
SW-User
When I was 19 I got arrested for petrol theft, along with a serious assult charge I was on the run for a whole year almost, (filled up the car + 2x 20Lt Jerry cans extra, I was planning to soak the inside of the car and drive it off a cliff, but ended up in a police car chase, arrested at gun point, and as i was arrested, they made the mistake of not hand cuffing me before putting me in the back of the divvy van, then attempt plan b came along in the divvy van as I tied the seatbelt around my neck like a noose and stirred the cops up enough to make one sharp turn hard enough for the seatbelt to snap my neck. Then I woke up passed out from the strangulation, the cops slapped me awake, cut the seatbelt off from my neck as it was fastened tight, threw me in the overnight cells. And after my rowdy behaviour during the recorded interview, they said to my face, “you’re going straight to the loony bin” I was too high risk for gaol.
I went in voluntarily for 3 weeks 2 years ago after 2 suicide attempts in one month, and I was struggling with cocaine addiction then too.
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Uh huh. When my brother died, I became so depressed, I stopped talking, eating, living basically. I'd only get up to go to the bathroom.
@SW-User I can relate. Same when I lost my sibling. Only difference was, I didn't even get up to use the bathroom. I think that's when I started to like peeing my pants and wetting my bed.
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SW-User
No. I have a therapist to talk to when I get depressed but I never been hospitalized.
Yes, I've been hospitalized several times. It happens.
PlumBerries · 31-35, F
Yep in my early teen days and now I work in two
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