Inpatient was the most useless place I have ever been (other than the tax office, heh heh) for me. I can see how it would be great if you needed a hefty med change or you were psychotic but other than that... no.

We just sat around on couches watching TV all day. If you were lucky, once a week you would get to see the psychiatrist (there were no psychologists there) who had no regard for human life and obviously hated his job with a vengeance. All he was good for was to muck around with medications. He had a social worker and a few other cronies there but they didnt look like they were allowed to speak at all. They never spoke once when I was there until right at the end I needed a form filled out and he was above doing it, lol.

So yeah. My experience was that the inpatient psych ward is not conducive to recovery whatsoever. It seems only useful if you are in a situation where you have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, if you know what I mean.