Sorry this happened to you. I take it this was your first hospitalization on a mental health unit. It doesn't matter what type of program you are in private or public mental health units dont place their clients in single rooms unless they need suicidal watch with a camera and t way mirrors for observation. The reason they do this is because all mental disorders have a symptom where the client isolates themselves so they don't allow the client to isolate themselves as a part of the treatment plans. And what you experienced is normally what goes on on mental health units. there is no guarentee who or what problems or what your experience is going to be like. During one of my "stays" in a hospital my roommate picked up her mattress and threw it then slammed her bed around until she broke a window I was luck I had the bed by the door and got out of the room fast. My last "stay" I was in the solarium alone when an orderly came in to let me know he was locking up. (all the rooms that didn't have beds and clients had to be locked at night) anyway I finished up my journal writing and got ready to leave when he came back to lock up. He locked him and I in and raped me threatening that if I caused a ruckus I would be restrained to my bed for refusing to leave the solarium and attacking HIM and I would be on ECT list for the next morning. So it was either he had me in the solarium or he had me while I was restrained. I gave in and the next day punched a wall so that they had a reason to put me in a windowed/ two way mirrored/ camera room. I was released a week later and I will NEVER go back to a mental health unit alive again. So Im glad you got out when you did and am sorry for what happened to you. take care. and my suggestion to anyone else thinking about hospitals try working the therapy plans with your therpists first and leave hospitals as a last resort. They are no day at the spa.
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