They made us do it in the day hospital program, and it was a total joke. A big waste of time, and I couldn't believe Blue Cross was paying thousands of dollars a day for 1/6th of the day to be wasted like that. It was stupid, and I really resented it. This is why they sent me to the psych ward, to cut out letters from ancient People magazines and paste them on cardboard? I could have used that hour every day to have one on one therapy, which frankly wouldn't be any more expensive. I tried getting out of it by professing that I had to get some work done on my iPad for the office, since we have an online remote server I can log into, but they wouldn't let me. I would honestly have felt better had they let me sit in a quiet corner and do something useful with that hour, if they weren't going to do anything better than arts and crafts.

Now, on my own, doing something I enjoy, it's fine. That's different, it's not forced labor under prison conditions.