Posted by alexandra_k on November 26, 2004, at 18:39:21
In reply to On the psychiatric ward....., posted by ed_uk on November 26, 2004, at 12:36:44
I'll just say a bit because this is hard.
When I got sick in 1998 (major depressive episode) I agreed to go into hospital for my own safety. I ended up more inside than outside for about two years.
I saw a lot of people come and go.
Suicides.
Shared delusions.
Voices stop.
Delusions cease.
Discharge.I can't describe what it is like.
There is a sense in which it is terrifying to be locked up.
To be sectioned (at times) under the mental health act.
To be told that you have to have this injection by law.
But after a while you lose the outside world. It receeds. Your life is on the inside. Institutionalisation.After that I went into supported accomodation for a couple of years.
Then drug treatments.
Now I am institutionalised into academia quite nicely :-)The horror
The horror
It is indescribable.
And due to the medications
And the shock treatments
Thank god the memories do not plague me as much as they could have...
It is numbed
Half remembered
And half forgotten.
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