The hospital I go to is pretty nice. There are lots of groups but when I have ECT I don't want to participate and they don't force me. My doctor has another doctor stand in for him and that doc is very nice. Like Lola said, it's just for short-term crisis stabilization. The only problem I had was when they tried to give me a blood pressure med for anxiety and it lowered my blood pressure so much that I actually fainted at the nurses' desk. They took that very seriously though and asked me to stay another day (it was my last day on the unit).