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When I was there they made me sleep in a room with bright lights and Nurses. They cut my nails down to nothing because I cut myself with them (I still have scars from that). They made me play stupid games and do arithmatic (I can do Calculus). I got sent to the isolation room alot because I would would smash myself against the walls. Other times I just sat on the floor and stared into space for hours.

i actully miss the hospital from time to time..at least its a safe place where you can very nicley go crazy and you wont be looked at funny cuz evryones either a staff member or nicley losing their own minds smile

As far as I know, every person I have personally known that has gone to a psych ward became worse upon going in. My sister, for example. She says that the doctors really didn't do anything for her, and they made her feel even more like a psycho just by being in there. Their days were basically either sleeping or making macaroni necklaces or painting wooden boxes. They would talk with a counselor twice a day, who would only decide which medications they needed to be put on. My sister walked out of that psych ward being put on Serequil, Prozac, and Lithium.

Because of what I've seen from my sister and others I know, even when I have considered hospitalizing myself, I never have because I feel it wouldn't do me any good. Not only is it insanely expensive, but I have more than the nagging suspicion that all they do is drug you up so much that you're too brain dead to be depressed anymore... which is definitely not what I want...