In my experience, Mental health institutions are designed to prevent someone from harm of any kind. No music, no devices, nothing to distract them from their treatment (especially if that music leads to negatively associated emotions). They use arts and crafts as a focus model because it's something innocent, something not usually connected to a traumatic event, something all-inclusive and completely open-minded towards individual creativity.


Then they have tv time, scheduled medications and meals, and regular therapies to develop a sense of structure, which eliminates clutter and chaos.


They choose hospital clothes so that the poor and envious do not feel demeaned by the rich and greedy,


Everyone is brought back down to Earth to face the truth of who they are at their most raw and natural state - because then, they have no choice but to face themselves, accept themselves, and improve.


But some people don't believe they need the help. These are the people who would look straight at an Apple, call it an orange, and accuse you of trying to tell them it's a banana. These are the people who try constantly to get out, who refuse to take their medication, who refuse to take care of themselves.


But they're in a hospital wing, and if one person starts acting this way, the others might try to join, in hopes of getting them all out by overwhelming the staff. It may seem harsh to you that they would have to be dosed and restrained, but the progress of the other patients cannot be placed at risk for the refusal of one patient to attempt to progress.


They have to do things exactly the way they do when it comes to the institutions.


HOWEVER


Not all doctors, nurses, and pharmacists there are polite or considerate. One could be mumbling under their breath "they just wanted to get out of going to jail" and then say "oh, nothing!" when they are confronted. People like this should not be in that profession, but sadly, those who are will sometimes use the patients' conditions against them in order to keep their job. This is what needs to change.


The hospitals do not need to change even though some of their employees should.