My fellow inpatients know me as the bratty coffee girl. You couldn't have any beverage with caffeine in it on the unit except during visiting hours and it had be consumed in that hour or it had to leave with your visitors. You could also sweet-talk your pdoc into prescribing 8oz of coffee for breakfast and/or lunch. Well, since I didn't ever have visitors and I am very much a coffee drinker, I asked nicely if he would do this for me. He obliged and I was prescribed 16oz caffeinated coffee per am. It took 4 days until the order FINALLY made it to dietary. Let me tell you, I was a complete raging b---- about my damn coffee. I mean, I'm in a psych ward. All I have control over is my coffee. GIVE ME MY COFFEE! One of the orderlies was nice enough to go to the cafeteria every day to get me my coffee until dietary finally got their s--- together and brought it with my tray, though they messed it up and brought 8oz instead of 16oz. Whatever! It's still caffeine.

I know, it sounds so trivial but...you stay inpatient for 8 days without your vice! When I was discharged, the first thing I did was drive past Starbucks and get a Venti Caramel Macchiato.