one time I got to the hospital in the middle of the night. By the time Intake was completed it was about 4am. I went to my room to attempt to sleep. However, this woman (who I had been in with before) was having a complete meltdown across the hall. She was screaming her head off about abuse because they weren't giving her breakfast (again it was 4am, not breakfast time). They tried to calm her down but obviously I couldn't sleep. Finally they calmed her down by giving her some pretzels. But her screaming woke up my roommate, who started talking quietly in another language, presumably to the voices in her head. She got louder and louder until she was almost shouting. At this point I was so agitated I just got out of bed and started pacing back and forth around the bed in a tight square. So she's yelling in Arabic or something, I'm pacing. Finally a tech comes in and tells her to be quiet because she has a roommate now, and asks me if I want some Ativan to calm me down. I said yes, got my meds, and finally fell asleep as the sun was coming up.

Ive been hospitalized 20 times so I'm sure I have many many more.