Just got back from mental institution.

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Thanks, haha! I literally watched it every day for like a whole year as a kid.

Been an outpatient - never been an inpatient, and really, really wouldn't want to be one...

,,,I spent my 21st birthday in the Harlem Valley state loony bin (NY State) ~ I'm crying now .

That sounds horrible...was it bad?

...Yes .
Thank you .
I just don't want to go into it much now , it's been gratifying talking here , but my library time is running out .

I did that once. They found me slumped over my keyboard and took me down to Bankstown Hospital at 3 in the morning. They deemed it as an accidental overdose on account that I'd also had so much alcohol that night but...

When I came out of it, there was a female Indian doctor standing over me and she was asking me if I knew what my name was but I thought she was asking me if I knew what her name was and I said, "indira gandhi?" She just laughed and life kicked on for a bit more.

At least you didn't say Benazir Bhutto!

I've been in a few and I did not like them. I hate being confined and having to deal with the other patients. Unfortunately because of my depression and suicidal thoughts I have to stay every once in awhile. Recently my Psychiatrist suggested ECT Treatments for my depression that would require a hospital stay.

I wish I knew how efficacious ECT therapy is.

I find myself rather turned off to it myself.

I had ECT long ago in 2005/6. It definitely worked, I was a lot happier afterwards. Just the memory loss sucks - I can pretty much count 2005 as a loss.

I have been in psych wards 5 times I think. Last time was last year when I was in for 3 weeks and 2 days. It was only horrible because I was battling side effects of medications, shaking all over the place. I couldn't even walk properly, horrible. But the food was awesome and I gained weight while I was there!

I nearly got hospitalized once for threatening suicide but then my mom decided she didn't want me there so she had my dad take me home after we had been waiting for me to be checked in. I remember I was just falling asleep in the waiting room. I can remember my mom telling me when I was home "Congratulations you did it."

The times I've been in hospital, I've met quite a few people who have had ECT. They knock you out these days first before they do it (or at least they did in the hospital I was in).

We'd all go down to the gazebo to smoke and I used to ask them what it was like. Just after the 'treatment', they would lose their short term memory but it would come back later.

That's something I would never want to receive. It just seems unnatural to throw 100's of volts through someones noggin.

I was in a depression group for a while. One young woman was really depressed and had eletro-shock therapy. The new kind. This was in 2011. The next week when she showed up for the meeting, she was completely incoherent. She spoke with a slur and couldn't walk straight. She couldn't even remember what the topic was about when it was her turn to speak. I felt extremely bad for her. It had been several days since she had it done (she did know that). I'd never consider it for myself. I was actually surprised to read about the success cases posted above. I've heard nothing but bad things about even the new kind. People who know people who have had it done.

...When I was in the Harlem Valley State (NY) Hospital , where I spent my 21st birthday , a doctor said about me (to my parents , reported to me) " He's not good for anything but being on the backwards for the rest of his life " ! . Now you can see why I hate psychatrists (by and large) .

Are you sure it was the psychiatrists who said that? They're usually far too professional to say such things. Also, that doesn't sound like the language a professional would use. I'd press your source on that one if I were you. From the little you told me, I can think of others who may have been responsible for saying it. People say things like that to either hurt you or try to motivate you (put you into the "I'll show you!" Mode).

"being on the backwards" doesn't even mean anything. It's not an expression. It doesn't even make any sense. That's why it wouldn't have come from the psychiatrists.

In the US, in psych hospitals, they place the more seriously mentally ill in the "back wards."