Have you ever been committed to a mental ward?

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Yes I was after I went missing for three days. I just walked and walked. I was so depressed. Then I went to the hospital. But when I got there I changed my mind after a while and wanted to leave. They wouldn't let me. I stayed for three months and slept a lot because of the depression. They tried many medications including antipsycotics which made me twitch a lot.

As a last resort I had ECT eight times. It worked but only for a few months. I still have memory problems and get very depressed from time to time. I suppose I will always have dysthymia which is low-grade depression.
Sometimes I want to go back to hospital because of the routine and the security of that. But I want to stay well, too.

Both parents have... I haven't "yet"... but seriously thinking about a voluntary visit. Maybe would help me get my mental state a little more on track. Learn some coping skills or something.

Peace,
Bruce

Renaeden, I think I might know how you feel; someone else in this thread said that they got depressed after leaving the hospital because they weren't getting empathy any more... and I feel the same way; what if my shrink gives up on me? What if nobody down at the university hospital wants to help me any more? What if they just say there's nothing more they can do? Please PM me if you want to have a nice little depressive chat. There's also a depressives club in the Members-Only forum!

Naturally, the therapist and psychiatrist would like to see you live your life happily without their dependence.

There is a point where it can happen if you will it.

You, Aradford, and the others here are replacing that need for me, which is good. Of course I still love seeing my shrink though, as I can't be on here all the time!

A friend of a friend of mine was once in a Mental Ward, apparently he tried dislocating his shoulder in order to escape, or he knew how. He was never the most stable person I've ever known.

Thanks for that, I just posted there.

What I wrote about was my second stay in hospital. The first was worse because everything was exactly the same when I got out and that is never good because how is life meant to improve?

I didn't know what I was doing half the time and was found wandering the other side of the hospital once. I also through a cup at a glass door and smashed it all. I thought I was in a dream. I got put in their version of an isolation room for it. It was a small room with nothing but a mattress on the floor. The door had one of those unbreakable wired glass windows. I was locked in for a while and I was given a tranquilizer. I was told if I didn't take it, I would be given an injection and be tied down, heh. What scares me about this is the fact that I wasn't taking any medication at this time. It was all in my head.

I was then given antipsychotics, big surprise there. I spent three weeks in that hospital. Afterwards I went back to work and everyone knew where I had been.

i was having alot of back pain during the end of my career as a nurse, so there was some pinter cleaning fluid that people said on the internet was legal then however after you take it it turns into ghb. after i took it for a while . i abruptly decided to stop using it --then the "illusions" came [not hallucinations my psychiatrist said]. so it got so bad that i called 911! it took along time for me to convince the ambulance drivers to take me. the rushed me into the xray room and the machines scared me in an extreme way --so i knew later it was from illusions brought on by sudden withdrawal of the chemical i was taking. they found no traces of it at all in my body. in addition my blood pressure went so high that they had to use nirto on me.i also at this point lost my ability to speak at all. they tried to put a tube down my throat and since i was so freaked out i closed down on the nurses finger gently but enough to prevent the tube going down but not to cause injury . so they got me to voluntarily drink the slightly sweetened black charcoal. and since i was familiar with it from work it was no problem so why did they not try that at first???then i was strapped down with a Hannibal lecter type mouth cover then they took me to a hospital room still tied down then they put an iv catheter in and gave me supportive care for about 3 days --i was not aware of time passing i was too "freaked out " by all the illusions i had the tv was going[showing tv shows] while it was off, then when it was on it looked like it kept repeating 4min scenes over and over i laughed so hard at that . i really wanted the straps off so it removed the iv several times to motivate them into taking it off. didn't work . then they eventually took them off after 3 days. then they put me in a hospital room and allowed me to rest on my own finally gave me food and cool water!. then the crisis intervention nurse came in and asked me a few questions to see if i was still out of it. she included was a math problem[i really really suck at subtraction with out being able to solve it on paper]. i failed it--so with the failure of this little test she had me committed to the county ward downstairs . i got the other 9 questions right . this same person told me that caffeine only lasts 15min! this is so not true--what kind of doctor is she if she is ignorant of such a common drug!! any how to get me to go into the ward they lied to me!! !! !! !!they said "you'd like it better than this private hospital room"---i did not know that was a thing people do in a hospital --liars liars!! i will never trust any hospital personnel if i am ever it that kind of situation again! just like police interrogators!!they think its ok to lie to people who are arrested in the interrogation room.i saw it on CSI so it must be true;). so off that detour, they said they had to keep me there because my blood pressure was still too high. i think i was in there a week or 10 days. i saw that they had cameras in every room and they kept the lights on in the room all the time --i normally sleep in a heavily blackened room! no sleep no normal food such boredom! every day! i was going stir crazy ! my mind is voracious for intellectual stimulation. and they did not give me all of my regular meds. uhg! and yes my nose was hypersensitive ---->nasty smells. my regular psychiatrist was really surprised at the poor level of care they gave me now i hate hate hate hospitals and the staff that lies and are so ignorant. bunch of evil clowns!i worked in a veterinary hospital for 15 years and we treat dogs and cats better in some ways, than people in human hospitals. i'll save the other 2 times for later if i dont get kicked off the board ??? i guess im too much of a wild child

I've never been committed to a mental ward, but I've come pretty close on a few occasions.

*bump*


IdahoRose, how and when and where and why and with whom did this happen? Is it something that could be in a book by survivors of dangerous or scary situations?

I hope i never have to go through this. Yikes!!

No, but my mom considered it many times over.

WHY? How? Explain!

I sent you a PM giving a vague explanation.

Never in a million of years.

nope and i hope i never do.