Some of these stories sound more like nightmares! I have never had a bad experience when I've gone IP at my local hospital, lost count of how many times. I did have one bad experience at the emergency room once. I had SIed and the doctor on duty knew nothing about SI so she tried to Baker Act me after I got my stitches. This meant that I had to ride in the police car to a psych place where luckily they understood what was going on with me. I was released to my old T at the time so I was only there 10 hours. They did strip search me there which was humiliating.

There was this other time that I'm not too fond of either. I got kicked out of Menninger psych hospital in Houston because I took an overdose there. The local hospitals psych ward was pretty scary compared to the local one here in just that it was really cold. Heavy steel doors on each room with only a tiny window to look out. Thankfully I wasn't there too many days. My parents and my Pdoc back home convinced Menninger to give me another chance.