If your there for suicide attempt or even someone accuses you of it, and they believe it. Its a forced stay. They can commit you if you refuse to volunteer to stay. Committing you, is taking away your rights to choose to stay. Some places can be horrible, it all depends.

Some places get bad staff because they can't find help and need to fill places. People don't want to do it. When that happens, your treated like a prisoner who committed some horrible crime. Your looked down on and as though your ignorant who doesn't know anything. Most of the time they do force you to take medication against your will.
They will use tactics such as it will make things all better, and people who stop taking medication is why they will wind up back.
They basically blame you for all the problems in the world we get stressed out about.

The therapy sessions will mostly consists of games, exercises, and crafts and art. To fill space to act like their doing something for treatment. When we can actually do that on the outside ourselves. These fillers for time take the place of actually discussing the problem. ---Some may have group therapy to discuss things.

If they find you crying or expressing emotions they will seclude you. Usually some staff will make you angry and/or say ignorant things, intentional or unintentional and for that if it upsets you and you even cry about it...they will lock you up in a room. If someone goes off, or they assume you will. (even if you wouldn't or did not) They will restrain you to a bed for 4 hrs. and drug you up.

You have dangers of being sexually harassed. If you tell, the staff will slander you, making up false reports and you could get false diagnosis and even more dangerous medication.

MOST OF THE TIME! YOUR OPINION OR WANT/ NEED DOESN"T COUNT!

If you get admitted and there for suicidal, your automatically deemed as mentally ill. You will be branded for the rest of your life with this mark. Your in the system and most chances he will be held over your head by others on the outside for the rest of your life.

The food varies at places. There are more private places that have the BEST food. Other places will serve state canned/ processed food. With canned veggies.

Some places do not let you out but only for an hour a day.

They threaten you with being institutionalized at a state place that is like jail. ..and still like those places you can find on youtube. They do this if you do not comply or fully participate in their activities, or they threaten you with longer stay if you do not show your are happy and give them gratitude for what they do. Telling them how you feel better and how they made you better and agree the medication is helping and all the problems you suffer is really do to a mental illness [and not a messed up world]

They consider you not feeling anymore or crying anymore. Do to the medication manipulating your natural responses. Is you getting better! When in reality the medications do 2 main things. #1 Destroys your female hormones. Which every male and female has the opposite of in them. #2 It destroys your emotional responses of the brain. They consider this normal.