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Originally Posted by irritable4life
They took my cell phone away..no electronics..food is dog food..can't sleep cuz doors slam all night..sharing a room with a big time snorer. No music..TV w no volume..that we were expected to wake up and not go back to the room till 9. We all just sat around with nothing to do..and it was cold and we had shorts on..they would not let us have blankets outside rooms..it was so so uncomfortable..my roommate standing over my bed staring at me w lights on at 2 am..every night..creepy scary..!.an I got no testing done..groups repeat same sheet over an over like we can just say oh..well next time I feel depressed I can just get up wash some dishes an go outside for sunshine and it will make it all better..it did not help me except giving me another diagnosis.
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The groups thing reminds me of this group run by nurse Cynthia, noted in the first post in this topic. The first time I was in she ran an 8 pm group every night that she usually ran for 90 minutes despite it being scheduled for 60. She would give out thick handouts and then read aloud. Once it was a list of things to do when down and I wanted to scream "Let's DO one then!", things like throwing paper airplanes that could have been fun instead of horrendoubly boring. Once she compared not being able to smoke on her breaks because of a no smoking campus to what it was like for us to be locked up. Not so much alike I'm thinking......Her groups were horrible. Most of the others aren't that awful. I don't usually like nutrition group and there's one I've never figured out the point of but I've hit the same topic 2-3 times which doesn't help. I like art therapy.
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