Modern Day Mental Hospital Patients

Modern day mental hospital patients. It takes a while to realize that a siren woke me. Visitors when a patient may have visitors is up to the mental health hospital but for many visiting hours are available throughout the day. While i was fortunate to be in a modern well equipped psychiatric hospital the strain that the nhs is under was all too evident in the staff and their attitude towards us patients. Antidepressants and anti anxiety medications are some of the most prescribed medications in our country.

The care for them is primarily considered both inhumane and immoral in the face of modern day psychiatry. An article published by the american association of naturopathic medicine reports that 20 9 million american adults suffer from a mood disorder according to the. I was placed in a mixed disorder unit. It was a locked mental hospital can only go out 30 minutes a day for physical activity.

Every day in the hospital was different. Personally i would rather go on vacation see a museum for the cost of it. It cost a lot of money to stay there. Psychiatric and chemical dependency patients and their families are finding it incre asingly difficult to find centers for acute care.

A day in the life of a mental hospital patient. In those days those who had mental illness were often kept out of public view in private homes almshouses and even jails. Treatment of mental health patients has come a long way since the 18th century. Here is an example of a day in my life there.

These mental health symptoms run rampant in our modern day culture. And so began my six week stay in a mental hospital resulting in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The new facility will serve more than 6 000 patients annually. I wake up and it is still dark.

Patients with chronic severe mental illnesses are still in facilities only now they are in medical hospitals nursing homes and increasingly jails and prisons places that are less appropriate and more expensive than long term psychiatric institutions. Patients may also be able to leave the facility on weekends if accompanied by another person. There is a certain stigma not only attached to being a patient in a mental hospital but to the whole field of mental health to begin with. It s natural to be scared of going into a mental health hospital if you.

As a hospital psychiatrist i see this every day said montross. Patients with chronic severe mental illnesses are still in facilities only now they are in medical hospitals nursing homes and increasingly. Fear of mental health hospitals.