I had good & bad experiences.....I don't even remember the number of times I had been hospitalized between 1995 & 2002.....medical & psych stays.

Several good hospital stays where it was a private psych hospital ropes course & a lot of practical help....but it was at the beginning of my problems & not as helpful as I would have liked it to be because I wasn't in a good place to be helped then.

1 on 1 is only when a person is suicidal or they think you will harm yourself in any way. I was usually in for ....but mostly there were good experiences except the first time at UCLA's psych hospital which was right after the Nortiridge earthquake in 1994 & it was still old style psych hospital with student's & pdocs all trying to figure you out.

If they don't have monitors, they do 15 minute checks throughout the night & that I found disturbing to my sleep even if I took something for sleep.....but most hospitals have many who do care & want to make your stay plesant...but also noticed that it depended on individual personalities as to how they were treated. Aggressive people weren't treated very nicely.....nice people were treated very well.

Participating in groups was a good distraction & bringing a book or music to listen to was very important for quiet & relaxing.