Posted by bleauberry on October 20, 2007, at 15:22:24
In reply to do hospitals ever help?, posted by alienatari on October 19, 2007, at 22:15:01
No. Hosipitals are not conducive to psychiatric healing. Been there done that.
I could design a good hospital for psych patients. It would include detailed testing of all kinds of biochemistries that are not usually looked at, customized highly nourished meals, swimming pool, far infrared sauna, lots of sunshine, large rooms, wide hallways, lots of gymnastic activities, various colors so not everyone is in the same colored pajamas, an oasis room with lots of plants and waterfalls, and doctors who are paid a meager base salary but who can earn double what any other doctor can make based on questionnaires rated by exiting patients, performance based pay.
Just dreaming. Short of that, no, hospitals are not good for psych patients. Just my experience. I was no better when I left than when I went in. No one else was either.
To be fair, I do know one guy who was suicidal, admitted to the hospital, never been on psych drugs before, responsed real well in days to prozac, and he left a new man a week. A few people do get lucky in Las Vegas too.
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