At my psych hospital, it was a room between nurses’ stations that could be locked (holding the patient in) or shut, but not locked. There was a window in the room I was in, but I couldn’t see out of it, but the nurses could see in, to see what I was doing. It just had a bed with no sheets, and a toilet and very small sink. Nothing else. It was sound proof. Unfortunately, I had been in a much worse seclusion situation at a psych ER once. Hearing other distressed patients is very disturbing, especially when you're very disturbed yourself. That’s part of why a sound proof room is of some benefit, I think.

I have some blurry recollections about “restraint”. I know I was dragged by some hospital security into the isolation room several times, usually screaming and resisting, and held down and given forced injections. That's “chemical restraint”. I do recall sometimes being given Haldol and sometimes Ativan. Other times, I don't know. Usually it was pretty soon after that that I calmed down, I think.Bear in mind that I was usually screaming and violent beforehand.

I don’t recall ever being strapped down to the bed, but who knows! I experienced some manic “blackouts” at times – en bloc and fragmentary. I do have a friend with bipolar type 1 who had been physically restrained with straps on at least a couple occasions.

One time, clearly after a seclusion, I was given a private room on the ward - surely because they thought it best not to have me room with another patient. I recall there being a security guard sitting outside my hospital room. I was, at that point, permitted to leave my room and walk around the ward, but the guard followed me. I think that lasted only for about a day. I think. Then the guard was released of that duty.