I've been inpatient more times than I'd care to admit. But I guess when you gotta go, you gotta go. I've met some really cool people in the psych ward who later became good friends I still hang with now and then.

One funny story:

There was a nurse there that NOBODY liked. She was such a *****. However, her venom was minimized because there were others on the floor to commiserate with. I had been on the floor for about three days when this really nice looking and funny Croatian guy was admitted to the floor. Even though I'm of Serbian blood, we hit it off and were fast friends. Even funnier, we were able to ***** about that nurse in Serbo-Croatian and had a blast doing that. Too bad he was married, because I could have seen myself dating him. We would be in the hall speaking Serbo-Croatian and the nasty nurse would yell at us "The rule is ENGLISH ONLY!" We looked at her, looked at each other and continued our conversation!

During Christmas time the staff had a dry erase board with all the staff people's name on it and they wrote "naughty" or "nice" by the names. There was this Indian doctor that nobody liked. So I wrote a very insulting Hindi word by his name and HE BLEW THE HELL UP! I heard him yelling at his interns and residents "WHO THE HELL WROTE THAT?" Never suspecting that we mental patients would have the brains to know such words. I giggled muchly.

I was in a not so good hospital one time. They didn't do anything with us. Just basically baby sit us. We were so bored that we started to play with a wheelchair. It hit the wall of the room of this Alzheimer's guy. He got up and started talking about needing to plough fields. Staff was pretty pissed at us. He hung out with us and laughed at our antics.

The same time as that hospitalization, my roommate and I played with the beds. We were curious to see how high you can make that bed. I got on the bed and she pushed the lever. It was pretty high. High enough that I had to do a good jump to get off. It managed to get stuck in that position, so staff had to replace the bed.