Opinion on forced entries into mental hospitals?

Well being depressed and attempting suicide would make it things all the worse youd think. If everyone looked at suicide as a common decision im sure it would be as big as it is.

 

Oh okay... so now I'm crying out for attention. Actually, to be honest, I have never "attempted". I have only been to the brink of almost attempting. And this is something I kept to myself while it was going through my mind. I didn't tell a soul about what I was thinking.

So no, I didn't cry around to everyone, "I'm so depressed... I'm going to kill myself." I don't want attention. I never have. If anything, I'm an extremely selfless person. I put everyone in my life before myself.

I look at it like this: If I know someone is in a bad place and I'm afraid they could do something to thierself, I will say something to someome. I feel that as a compassionate person in this world, that's my duty.

It may not be your opinion, but it's mine. And it's my prerogative.

 

well... I unfortunately have plenty of experiences with suicide and more than once had instances where individuals I know were walked in on (rather miraculously), at the brink of death (this wasn't just a cry for attention, in other words)... saved... and then grateful they were saved once the healing process began and the darkness was lifted. So to just leave someone to die is absolutely ridiculous and short-sited.

 

Usually, these mental hospitals are not good choices. You're right. Each and every patient should be treated individually, and not on medication alone. Emotional problems cannot be treated like physical diseases, you can't just take a few pills and get healthy.

 

That sounds like me...

minus the successful suicide.

 

I was forced into the psychiatric ward at a hospital and believe me, it was one of the worst experiences of my life. I hated it.

I feel it wouldn't be THAT bad if they didn't have the rule that you had to leave when the doctor says it's okay. The doctor (who doesn't know you) has no right to be making your own decisions. I was stuck in the mental hospital for 2 weeks. I know that's not as bad as some of the other people that were in there, but still. I was stuck inside all day for a week and a half until they finally let me leave for a smoke. I still had to be on the hospital property and I still had to be back within a half hour of leaving.

I really think SOME people need it, but if they really don't want to be there after the second full day, they should be allowed to leave. Forced confinement is cruel and unusual torture.

 

Hope you're doing bettr. Totally been there. Life balances out. It doesn't ever get perfect, but it balances out.

 

There's a lot of dangerous people out there, and I'm pretty sure most of the time when they are released, they are not in stable condition. There's just a lot of people who need 24 hr care, but in a lot of the US, most of them don't get it. There isn't the funding so they let them go until they seriously hurt themselves or someone else.

Then too, though, there are countless missuses and abuses within the system that "treats" people. Things are probably getting better, but that doesn't mean it still can be pretty atrocious.

 

Mental hospitals are cruel, disturbing places.

 

I was admitted on two occasions.

 

Ah, thanks. I'm doing much better now. I started therapy and it's helping.

 

I think that if you are hurting yourself or other people, and you aren't really competent to make the right choice then you should be forced to go. Some situations dont need a mental hospital, its up to the people who love you to make the call.

 

Had to bump this up due to Brittany Spears being commited for observation and treatment.
Heard that the motorcade and helicopter escort cost Los Angeles over Twenty Thousand Dollars to bring Brittany in for detox.

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^yes, you are an arsehole
or is the comment supposed to provoke


while i am mentally healthy and have always
taken responsibility for my madness by not playing
the blame game and being in and staying in year long
residential outpaitient programes
i use my skills eveyday

so being put in hospital
under a court order is fucking horrible
police are involved and handcuffs
or an ambulance cuffed and sedated

three years ago, under a 28 day court order
with a nurse that had to be within one metre
of me at all times horrible

i am a petit brunette who can
when insane, be quite nasty

yet at the time i was quite insane
a danger to myself
i cannot remember the first three weeks
they don't put you on a medical routine
straight away
they work out, or at least try
to see what is going on first

yes, i have been through this a few times
was it for the better
yep, for me
i have a buisness,somewhere to live, a lifestlye i enjoy
animals and a couple of close friends

what the problem is , is STIGMA
it will never go away and still happens
even in cyberspace

 

btw i have a Dnr orders for health reasons

and if i end up on life support
even if it is by my own hand
cut the cord

this is my way
i have talked to my docs
and family who agree

but i would want to go to hospital
if i have too
i enjoy like, so if a stint in hospital
makes my world ok, so be it

another thing i have a serious mental illness
or what other posters have thought
is a serious illness and a couple of
others consisdered not so serious mental illness

who decides what is serious and what is not
how the hell do you know?

 

i forgot to say

there is a difference
btw self harm and a true
suicide attempt