Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Feelings on a Psychiatric Ward

I was recently admitted to a psychiatric ward for about ten days.

My first response was disbelief. It had been a year since my last admittance. I had been well and bipolar disorder had not got the better of me. So disappointment and disbelief were my initial emotions.

Life on a mental ward can be lonely and frightening

I basically slept on and off for the first three days. The medications enabled my behaviour and mind to calm down, I guess.

So on day four or five, I decided to enter the open ward and leave my room. I had decided that I did not want to interact with anyone, and initially kept to myself. By this time, I had accepted the situation, and was keen to get better, so that I could go back home.

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Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Life on a Mental Health Ward: First few days

One never gets used to being in a mental/psychiatric hospital. Every stay is a new experience. It is also another detour in one’s desperate escape from the enemy of mental illness.

The insane asylum, loony bin, nuthouse, cuckoo house, padded palace, crazy house – alternative names used to refer to mental hospital!

All types of mental health ailments are represented in the ward with people at various stages of recovery (or at least were in those times). There were patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act and voluntary patients like myself.

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