Hey fellas,
To me, mental health treatment in this day and age is comparable to how medicine was at the time of the plague, where mourners with masks would attempt to heal the sick with their rods. In other words, mental health treatment nowadays is bullshit. It hasn't even been that long since they stopped electrocuting patients.
From my personal experience, I have spent a total of 3 and a 1/2 months in a psych ward on 2 occasions (14 days for the first time, 3 months for the second). In the first time I was completely out of my mind, I'm open to discuss it if anyone is curious. Anyways the second time I went in; oh boy, don't even get me started. I was in the worst state of my life; it's difficult to describe how I was but the important thing to note was that I was of sound mind.
It was a prison in there. Words cannot describe how awful the stay there was. The doctors were clueless, and would always jump to conclusions instead of listening to me. They would always ask the same questions and then give me no time to raise my concerns. On top of all of this you were only arranged to see the doctors once a week.
Since the first time I entered the ward, my medications (antipsychotics) were switched 4 or 5 times. Side effects included weight gain, an awful feeling that the ground is spinning and tilting, fatigue, you name it. The second time I was in the ward, for a month they experimented with this medicine called Latuda (lurasidone). It was a nightmare. After taking it by 1 or 2 hours, I would become suicidal and completely fatigued when I'd hear the slightest sound, and would feel an extreme uncomfort no matter what I did. I would also get images burned into my head as if a magical force is placing them there. They would be images of people's faces; I could recall seeing the faces of one of the doctors and one of the patients. The faces would appear so eerie and evil, and there was no escape. I told them about this, and they claimed that the medicine was innocent, and that this was a product of my illness, despite the fact that this stopped when they stopped giving me this particular medicine.
This kind of treatment to those who are already suffering is inhumane, and I hope no one ever experiences what I went through, although I am aware of the depressing fact that there are those who suffered the same if not more the hands of these quack doctors.
For those who have been hospitalized, what was your experience like?
peace
To me, mental health treatment in this day and age is comparable to how medicine was at the time of the plague, where mourners with masks would attempt to heal the sick with their rods. In other words, mental health treatment nowadays is bullshit. It hasn't even been that long since they stopped electrocuting patients.
From my personal experience, I have spent a total of 3 and a 1/2 months in a psych ward on 2 occasions (14 days for the first time, 3 months for the second). In the first time I was completely out of my mind, I'm open to discuss it if anyone is curious. Anyways the second time I went in; oh boy, don't even get me started. I was in the worst state of my life; it's difficult to describe how I was but the important thing to note was that I was of sound mind.
It was a prison in there. Words cannot describe how awful the stay there was. The doctors were clueless, and would always jump to conclusions instead of listening to me. They would always ask the same questions and then give me no time to raise my concerns. On top of all of this you were only arranged to see the doctors once a week.
Since the first time I entered the ward, my medications (antipsychotics) were switched 4 or 5 times. Side effects included weight gain, an awful feeling that the ground is spinning and tilting, fatigue, you name it. The second time I was in the ward, for a month they experimented with this medicine called Latuda (lurasidone). It was a nightmare. After taking it by 1 or 2 hours, I would become suicidal and completely fatigued when I'd hear the slightest sound, and would feel an extreme uncomfort no matter what I did. I would also get images burned into my head as if a magical force is placing them there. They would be images of people's faces; I could recall seeing the faces of one of the doctors and one of the patients. The faces would appear so eerie and evil, and there was no escape. I told them about this, and they claimed that the medicine was innocent, and that this was a product of my illness, despite the fact that this stopped when they stopped giving me this particular medicine.
This kind of treatment to those who are already suffering is inhumane, and I hope no one ever experiences what I went through, although I am aware of the depressing fact that there are those who suffered the same if not more the hands of these quack doctors.
For those who have been hospitalized, what was your experience like?
peace
