My Experiences with Mental Hospitals / Psych Wards as a Schizophrenic

the stuttering is so real, lol. ive had speech issues my whole life and stutter ALOT..i rlly get it lol. glad your doing much better now, well enough to speak about your experiences. I hope you're doing better now. and even though idk you, im really proud of you for being clean for THAT long. thats a really amazing milestone :).stay safe and have a great day/night :333!!!

It takes a hell of a big set of balls of steel to make a video of this. I salute and admire you sir.

I've been to a psychiatric hospital 3 times for schizophrenia as well. I related so much to everything you said. The awful thing about not being able to use your cellphone, just wanting to go home so bad because you're sick of the place. Having to strip naked in front of someone and wear a hospital gown. It sucks so bad. When you're in those facilities you're in there for a week, but it feels like you're in there for a month. Also having the psychosis was relatable. I remember i was thinking people were after me to kill me

Hello, My experiences are quite similar, I'm 25, I had my first psychotic episode in 2020, shortly after covid lockdowns, and went into hospital for 11 days. My initial diagnosis was a psychotic episode, and I was put on anti-psychotics and antidepressants. The hospital was not bad. A lot of the things you described were the same. We were allowed to have our phones, though. We had to get them charged by the staff, and if they noticed you were using it too much, they might not give it back to you straight away. After hospital, I started seeing a psychiatrist fairly regularly and was later diagnosed with schizophrenia in the same year. I guess I was a bit lucky with that. About a year later, I ended up in hospital again for a while. I won't explain in detail here, but I came close to dying from a side effect of a new medication. This time, I was in hospital for much longer. I was released for about a week but ended up back in hospital again, as I couldn't adjust. I was moved to a different facility after a while, which was a bit like a halfway house. I remember spending Christmas and New Years there at the end of 2021, going into 2022. Simce I left that place I've been slowly recovering. I was blessed with a great case manager and later a really good psychiatrist. I'm no longer on any medications since about 2 months and doing well. I feel the happiest I've ever been and have felt this way for probably over a year. I do worry that I will regress into a delusional state again, but I'm confident that I would be able to get good help again.

Thank you so much for this! I recently applied for a position at a mental hospital, as I am already a caregiver for people in my family who have similar challenges and was excited about the chance to possibly help some more people through rough patches as well. Whatever the results of that interview, I will carry your experiences with getting help in my heart to give me a better perspective on what the person across from me is experiencing.

It's pleasant to hear life experiences from someone that lives it so differently, great video!

the amount you forget is insane during psychosis, it's similar to the amount of details you forget when in a physical fight, at least for me thanks for sharing!

i wish i was as brave as you making a video like this i don't have schizophrenia at the level you have but i do have it a little and i also have autism and also a Buddhist i'm glad i watched this video i'm sorry you went through that mental health issues suck i have horrible anxiety so i know how bad it can get at times and i hope your life continues to get better

glad u were able to get help man and wish everyone best of luck going through this

I spent most of my time crying when I was hospitalized too :/ we had card games too. the food was terrible. at night they came in like every 30 minutes and it was super annoying and not fun. it was super traumatizing for me

I really appreciate you making this video. It’s helpful to hear to other people’s experiences.

Very cool and informative video! Glad you took time to talk about your experience and upload a video of it for others to see. I wish you many many clean years to come and when worst come to worse that you'll handle it and get back on track! Best wishes and good luck!

thanks for sharing your experiences and i hope you're feeling well :) i graduated with a psych degree but i'm not in the field of mental health now. Hearing your perspective was super insightful because it's so much more tangible than having to memorize diagnostic criteria for an exam.. Listening to stories like yours is what got me interested in studying the brain in the first place a couple years back and now i'm in grad school for neuroscience, so again: thanks!

Really makes you think, people can feel and think this way because of a disease, i'm to privileged to even notice at times to know how much people like you have to deal with. My heart goes out to you, man, i know a bit more about schizophrenia now than before this video. Thank you for that, and hopefully, you don't relapse any time soon. On an unrelated note, I recommend listening to some NSDR videos to calm down. It helped me at my worst, so maybe it will help you as well :) (NSDR andrew huberman, it should be a 10 minute long video from virtusan) Hope this helped in any sort of way and good night.

I really enjoyed this video it’s so interesting to listen to experiences like this, I hope things go well for you in the future <3

I'm proud of you man ❤

Thank you for this video!

I am schizoaffective and luckily have avoided being in the psych ward since my diagnosis. But I had been before prior to my diagnosis and to two PHP (partial hospitalization programs) and in my honest opinion they allllll stink oh my goodness! This was a really good video. I love hearing about other peoples perspectives when they suffer with the same thing or something similar to me! I also relate to your stuttering! I developed cognitive and speech issues after developing schizophrenia!

thank you for sharing your story. I appreciated your honesty and your storytelling. Greetings from Italy.

Thanks for sharing your story.