My experience in an inpatient mental health psychiatric hospital for Bipolar 1 disorder Risperidone

[@benkohout6495]

Went through something similar about 2015. With delusions and paranoia. Little to no care from doctors 5 minutes a day. Lots of sitting wondering what was going on or what would happen. No fresh air, or sunlight, poor nutrition options, little to no entertainment (old magazines, coloring books). Crazy people and hearing other people’s delusions and insanity. People have no idea how unhealthy and scary these places can be while you’re trying to heal.

[@elizabeth4275]

I’m scared to go by reading this but I need help .what should I do?

[@benkohout6495]

@@elizabeth4275 I’m not a doctor. Seek friends, seek a therapist, seek help if it’s an emergency please. Not all experiences will be like the one i had. Hope the best for you! things do get better.

[@forgettablegirl]

I’m thankful for your honesty.

[@quixoticzest]

this is very educational and actually really helpful thanks

[@nestlequ1k2]

Very informative video. Would love to see more when you get a chance!

[@ARon82]

Thanks man

[@patriciamatura2162]

9/17/23 Thanks for sharing

[@ARon82]

Welcome!

[@johngilfillan6145]

Hi there, thank you for your message. 2 years ago I suffered a mental breakdown/burnout/anxiety attack and was hospitalized for near suicide. It was from being over worked and heart broken. I am 29 now. Can I fully recover? I am seeing a phsycologist and phsyciatrist, just terrified about going back into work. Thank you

[@Cgeese]

i also have bipolar 1 co occuring with autism. ihave been hospitalized several times due to perpetual stimulus like clocks ticking and my own breathing panic attacks.. most of my hospital stays were simmiliar. the last time i was in a hospital, it was completely different. staff were really supportive and we played trivia over the intercom. honestly this felt strange almost a positive experience in delaware, on the contrary other locations made me feel im never back. once i was in cornell weiss medical in ny for 7 so months.that was my experience.

[@steevrawjers]

i have had some real bad experiences with pyschiatrists

[@narcexposer3187]

Thank you so much

[@ARon82]

You're most welcome

[@steevrawjers]

fascinating i would love to learn more are you up for a podcast i do comedy and mental health and mental illness related conversations i have diagnosis of bipolar type 1

[@ARon82]

Sure that would be interesting.

[@itsmybirthday1738]

I'd hate to come up with the money to pay for those places 1500 dollars is highway robbery

[@Eersian]

Risperidone gave me bad dreams and lockjaw

[@americancarguy]

The worst part about my last stay was being strip searched. But I was also psychotic and delusional, and suicidal mixed episode. My reality at the time was that everyone could read my mind and were out to get me. But where trying to trick me into thinking they weren't but in my mind I could "hear" what they were thinking. Then they wouldn't give me any of my meds cause without my phone in that state to look their names up and dosages I couldn't recall the information well. So then I felt like that was a plot too. My first night I was in a room all on my own, it was two days after Thanksgiving and the AC in the room was broken so it was blowing ice cold air. That was my second stay and it was during COVID in 2020 18:45 so there were no visiting hours. And in a hospital an hour away from home. My first stay I was lucky no strip search and I was admitted to my local hospital and it was about ten years before that. So there was a visiting hour and my parents (I was single) and brother and sister in law (they were just dating at the time) came every day to visit the about two weeks I was there. Still was a scary experience as I was suicidal and having psychotic delusions. That stay is when I was first diagnosed with bipolar. (I'm bipolar type I)

[@CyberLord5G]

I just got out of ECMC BH 5 zone 3. 3.5 weeks

[@ARon82]

Cool, How'd you like it and CPEP?

[@Basstroutfishing]

“Empathy room” sounds worse than personality disorder’s,

[@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine]

No it just makes it worse I felt my best outside and everything was - psychosis - determined by being absorbed in a certain part of Canada

[@narcexposer3187]

My friend is in there but he hasn’t called me, should I be concerned ? Are they allowed to use their cell phones ? I want to let him know that I’m here for him but is he too embarrassed to call me ? He was thinking someone was after him when he went in there 🙁. How can I help him ?

[@ARon82]

I wasnt able to bring in a cell phone. Just use a landline phone to call my wife. You could go visit him during the visiting hours.

[@Rugz-smoke]

Won’t ever happen

[@davidzaiser9929]

8,000 to work out and eat healthy.....seems like you should have joined a gym and went to the grocery instead.