Mental Illness Thread

Anyone else been involuntarily detained and drugged against their will in a psych hospital?

I can't be the only one.

Also general mental health / mental illness thread.

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got sent to an outpatient program a few years back as a teenager for 6 weeks
it was honestly pretty fun. the people i met there were really nice but a little odd (what do you expect). you could also talk about literally anything, including shit like rape, death, etc. without anyone batting an eye.
looking back i wish i didn't protest going there as it really helped me with my OCD and ADHD.

Interesting. "Got sent" involuntarily? Or you agreed to go?

involuntarily. i initially freaked the fuck out at first.

Fair enough. In my country (UK) I don't think there are any "outpatient programs" that you can be sent to involuntarily. The only place they will put you involuntarily, as far as I know, is in hospital.

I'm a burger so I don't realky know much about how the UK does mental health. Isn't it really shitty though?

yeah its shit, 6 month wait for """urgent""" outpatient programs lmao

Well I imagine being tied up in the mental health system of any country is shitty.

Although I know that poorer countries have especially bad hospitals.

Our hospitals aren't bad in the UK, but I just resent the whole idea of them being able to lock me up and drug me against my will.

Does the UK have "outpatient programs"? Do you mean care in the community sort of thing?

yeah, community health care services are what im referring to with outpatient

because everyone at the local mental hospital is extremely nice, though i've never been involuntarily committed/been admitted while psychotic, so maybe they change their tune when you aren't/cannot be compliant.
just try to enjoy it, people say the funniest craziest shit in group therapy and if it's anything like it is here that is all you'll be doing. be nice to the shrinks, they'll be nice to you.

I always act like a good girl when involuntarily committed because i want out asap. Last time i was trapped there for a suicide attempt and acted out the first day because i was super pissed that i was alive and wanted to kill the bitch psychiatrist who talked to me first. Luckily ive never been in longer than a week because when i need to, im really good at acting like everything is fine.

the last hospital i was at actually bought cigarettes for the patients which was cool, i dont normally smoke but i did when i was trapped there. It was nice to sit outside with the fellow crazies and puff on a cig and talk about making meth or whatever, broke up the monotony a bit

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Like talking therapies? I know they have a long waiting list

But if they thought your case was properly urgent then they would section you. That's what has happened to me. I wish it hadn't, of course, because being sectioned is shit. Well, the being drugged against your will part is the shit part.

>fembot
let me cum inside you please

sure why not

actually reminds me that last hospital visit there was this creepy psychotic dude who kept asking me to kiss him

also a guy showed me his dick once in the hospital

no they took me 3 months to get into, then when i said im still hurting myself they told me i was high risk and put me on the community wait list which ive been on 4 6mon

damn wasn't expecting a yes honestly didn't plan this far ahead. now im actually horny wanna lewd on discord?

not really but thanks for the offer, user

so close welp guess i gotta go wank to porn now got any more stories from the loony bin

>any more stories
I watched some lady get held down and injected for rambling too loudly in the common area

listened to some tweakers talk about how to make meth

some guy whispered in my ear that he "knew that i was a pedo" and was going to "beat me to death" the second the nurses weren't in sight which was very scary as the guy was like 6'4'' and like 260lbs and little ol me is just ends up sobbing in front of the nurses wondering why my new friend thinks im a pedo and wants to kill me
turns out he was truly psychotic and thought i was his mom for a moment there or something, got moved to another ward after i told the nurses tho

Spent 2 weeks in a mental health unit in Sweden, had been seeing a psychiatrist/therapist 2x a week for around 6 months prior.

Was admitted for chopping my finger off, during my stay I just took my normal medication before being diagnosed with treatment resistant depression (not a surprise, as I've been in and out of treatment for 15 years).

Only think I was iffy about is that they had me start doing ECT twice a week, I've done 6 treatments so far with the most recent 2 as a free man - travelling to the hospital for treatment then heading home once I wake up.

Seeing a psychiatrist tomorrow to see if I'm fit for work (no chance) and probably to recommend an additional 12-18 treatments of ECT and fingers crossed they'll give me some ketamine.

>ECT
how the fuck
is it helping? i didn't realize electro shock was still legal in first world countries

It's becoming more and more popular, its not as barbaric as it used to be. The entire procedure takes about 15 minutes.

Normally I lie on a hospital bed, they'll check my temp and ask how I'm doing etc, they inject a muscle relaxant, then I get wheeled into the procedure room and say hi to the nurses and doctor - then they either inject me with that shit they use as truth serum or have me inhale some gas for a few seconds then I wake up and it's all over.

So far it's been okay, I'm still depressed and my memory is a bit fucked short term but I've been told that's to be expected. I've still got pretty severe anxiety and depression but I think I'm more lethargic about it now, too tired or passive to try to kms again.

My mind set right now is that I can't say I haven't tried to get better, so if half a year from now once I've finished ECT and all the other shit I'll probably just go somewhere beautiful and hang myself.

> Luckily ive never been in longer than a week
You're lucky, I've been in for months at a time

Interesting. I mean the community teams don't really do much except come round to check you're okay, maybe once a week if you're lucky, otherwise it can be once every 2, 3, 4 weeks.

At least that has been my experience. The only other thing the community teams seem to do, from my experience, is talking therapies like I mentioned.

The attempt is what matters, user. You're trying some serious shit to try and get better. I don't think i would have the balls to let them put me under and shock my brain twice a week. Good luck, user.

Ive basically given up and have already reached that point you;re talking about. Ive spent years trying to get better and nothing has worked, no medication has helped, no single person has changed my life. My brain is still fucked as it ever was.

i was actually planning on offing myself soon, but bf got really sick and i just cant do that to him while he's ill, ig i will wait till he is better and then pull the trigger

That's honestly one of my worst fear, user. I really couldn;t handle being trapped in one of these places longer than a week

I'm currently under a community treatment order. Though i'm planning on being non-compliant. Got an appointment with the psychiatrist tomorrow who will bitch and moan about me being a good boy and continuing on the olanzapine injections. Fuck that I'm over it, I want to lose weight and get fitter. They can only force medication when you're hospitalised under a compulsory treatment order. I don't think i'll go back to being psychotic because there's no stressors in my life and I get enough sleep and eat meals at appropriate times. I've already stopped my anti-depressants, and I have a a lot of anger bubbling back to the surface. I have to work on that by finding an outlet for it. The last two times I was sectioned, it was fine. I got along with the patients and the staff. I didn't think they were poisoning me, but I did believe I was caught in a conspiracy against me regarding my fathers death. I believed they thought I killed him and were trying to psychologically break me down to confess(?) to his murder. I did end up in jail because I assaulted my mother, because I knew I didn't do it, so it had to be her. Jail was fine, people only care about themselves and having a good time. I got not guilty by reason of insanity and got sent to an actual nuthouse with schizo murderers, rapists, arsonists. They were all normal face to face. Everyone was doped up to the eyeballs. I got out after 2 months and have been back home with my mum, on my injections like a good boy for the last 2 years. Now i'm going to stop all that shit. I just want to be human. There's a lot of things to work on, and I feel I have the motivation to do it right now. So striking while the irons hot and dropping all the weights put on me. Don't become another drooling zombie anons. They just want us sedated, out of sight, out of mind.

you actually chopped your finger off? why?

Thanks for the talk, I'm gonna head to bed now but I'll keep my fingers crossed that maybe things will improve.

With a little luck we'll hopefully never speak to each other on this site again.

Dunno, intrusive thoughts plus a bunch of medications I guess.

No real conscious thought, it felt like I was watching myself in a dream.

that sucks user, i'm currently sectioned and they're talking about putting me on a cto. if they do then i will finally get the chance to ditch their drugs so that will be good.

i totally get the wanting to lose weight thing. i'm on risperidone, which as you probably know is not as bad for weight gain as olanzapine, but still i have grown a belly since being on this stuff.

that sucks. i guess i'm lucky i've never been in such a bad place.

How do i deal with the knowledge that there exist so many self-destructive girls with mental illnesses without which they would be leading happy and fulfilling lives? Asking because a female acquintance of mine is in this situation. She asked me out but i refuse to put myself through all the worry of who she's drinking with, if she's not smoking too much, that she's not fucking up her body with piercings and tattoos. Just seeing the things she's doing to herself has left me with occasional depressive and aggressive episodes, i'm so fucking pissed there isn't a way to just help these people because as it stands, the most rational thing to do is to delete such toxic people from my life.

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