My hospital experience was not good, but apparently I was not put into a very good one. When I was admitted, I wasn't allowed to have my clothes (had to wear scrubs that they gave me) and wasn't allowed to shower or have new clothes for 3 days. Once I was allowed to have my clothes back, I was allowed to take a shower. But 3 days of that was horrible. And on top of this, I was having really bad insomnia and they made everyone get up at 7am which was torture to me. I felt even worse once I was admitted because of all this stuff. They also gave me medication that made me sick, and made me take it twice before they figured it out because there was no communication between the staff. I ended up pretending to get better so they would release me because I couldn't stand it in there. Once they finally did, after being in there 6 days against my will when I was supposed to be there voluntarily, I had to drop out of college because I got worse and moved back in with my parents.
I highly recommend that you do research on whichever hospital you might be admitted to, if you can. It sounds like most people haven't had experiences like mine, but I would try to be careful just in case.
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