Uhm privately as in not a state psychiatric ward? I've always gone to private psychiatric wards, it wasn't a psychiatric ward that hurt me, it was a residential facility, they've never tried to send me to state psychiatric wards. First of all I've been animate about never going, secondly they're not for the feint of heart and having ptsd always deterred them. Thirdly in Pennsylvania we only have three or four state wards so they typically save them for forensic cases and other dangers to society.

But if you mean privately as in McClean, Hopkins, etc, I was in a hospital similar to those twice, but I didn't feel any better taken care of.