Have any of you ever been in a mental hospital for being bipolar?!


Question: Did you ever feel like they treated you like a criminal...or overdose you on medication etc.? What I mean is..did you have a bad experience while in there?


Answers: Did you ever feel like they treated you like a criminal...or overdose you on medication etc.? What I mean is..did you have a bad experience while in there?

My mother, in a fit, put me in a mental hospital. they tried to keep me there for a month when even the top psychologist couldn't diagnose me. they tried to give me lithium and treated me like an animal. I'm sure there are productive mental hospitals out there, but i had a bad experience.
eventually our insurance company had them investigated for fraud, and my mom got put on pills to control her psychosis.

Always falling back on depression gets you behind bars, F*&^ is this country comin 2!

Yes, I was in for five days a while ago. I've heard some bad things about it, but my experience was pretty productive. I'm not saying it was fun or anything, but it did help stablize me in a safe environment. I was already properly medicated, so they just tweaked my current cocktail.

yeah they treat me like **** i hated it there i was there 2 xs

sorry

I've got bipolar type 2 and I've been admitted both to hospital ER and psych wards in the last ten years as a result of mixed affective episodes, suicide attempts and medication overdoses, one accidental, two not.

I wasn't treated as a 'criminal' or freak, and while I did have difficulties with one nurse, all in all , I've been treated with care and respect. While I wouldn't say it was a positive experience I'd care to repeat, I'd been given help and found that the staff were very attentive and reasonable, as long as I was reasonable. My behavior generally showed that I was serious about getting well and being responsible for myself and my health.

In the cases of overdoses and suicide attempts, once admitted I was watched closely for my own good, but the mental health nurses understand that it takes something pretty big or something is going wrong in someone's life for them to try to end it and were supportive.





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