I was hospitalized for the first time this last summer. It happened twice - the first time was involuntary, for a week and a half. The second one was voluntary, for 3 days. It was about 2 weeks in total. I was hospitalized because I was considered gravely disabled, and my family thought I was trying to commit suicide (sorry, I know you didn't want replies that were because of that). My experience was pretty positive overall - I was in bad shape when I got there, and since then I've been a whole lot calmer, and the racing thoughts I had have totally stopped. It's nice - I don't know how long it will last, but I'm glad for it while it's happening, I haven't felt this good in a long time.


Off topic - on the My Mood list, there certainly are a lot of options that begin with the letter c and the letter b.