#psych ward

[mollyhaze]

💙💙💙Don’t worry yall bluey fixed it :3 💙💙💙

[morrtism]

Grippy sock vacation here i come

[imsuperfuckingangry]

This is not gangland, and we don’t have to keep up a facade that we’re “fine” when 90% of the people here are labeled “schizophrenic”

I’m relieved that I read Nellie Bly’s experience, because I don’t want to repeat it. There was a point where she wanted out and tried to explain, “I don’t belong here” and I got to read how that didn’t do anything. I’d rather see this through and experience more. If it’s true that each person we meet is a teacher, then I’m learning lessons that maybe they’re not intentionally trying to teach.

They’re ashamed of their diagnosis, which is why they like and want to be treated like they’re regular, normal people.

I accept the unfair diagnosis that most of us received during our time in survival mode. I read that you need to be a bit paranoid in some situations, based on what you’re really dealing with, in order to survive the ordeal. Whether it’s being targeted by your family and neighborhood, or living unsheltered, paranoia was somewhat required.

They are bringing gang ideology into a mental health crisis management facility, and not accepting the reality we live in.

We deserve adequate care, and the facility deserves to get honest feedback in order to improve conditions for the next set of people. This facility is only 4 years old and they’ve come a long way from what they started as. I think they can improve exponentially and I don’t mean that as an insult. It’s a brand new facility and of course I’d like to share things that would make conditions better for the patients (“clients”). My job isn’t to make things better for the workers here, that is not my experience. My experience is being a patient, so I can only give feedback regarding that experience.

These people, as they should be, are only thinking about themselves. Unfortunately, I can’t do that.

I wish there was one other person here who was capable of seeing this, but that’s just my wish. It’s not my demand, and it’s not a necessity. I just wish for it when I’m lonely and feeling like I need someone to talk to out of my peer group. I only have my clinicians who truly understand what I’m saying. I’m grateful for that.

I know prior to this, all except one did not advocate for themselves in the hospital, and did not know how to. Only one other person here in my position had the nerve to state their rights, and I think she’s dealt with too much already for me to ask her to continue that energy here with me.

It’s always been difficult being Asian in my area, in Los Angeles, in general. I’m alright with advanced level difficulty. I have no choice now. I can meet the challenge or give up and crap out. I’ll have to ride the wave and rise to the challenge, even if it’s just to see what kind of people really live out here and what their perspectives are. What they’re able to do, what they know, and what they don’t know.

“Fitting in” has never been something I was able to do easily. If you don’t speak Spanish in my world, you’re an outcast. I don’t know if learning to speak Spanish will improve that and that’s not why I’m learning it. Thankfully.

Sadly, not being Mexican will make you an outcast. I’m not sure if each person in this demographic appreciates being able to live somewhere where you can find someone who speaks your mother tongue, quickly. I don’t know or understand the beauty and pleasure of that experience (yet). Just the few times I went to Japan did I get to feel that. It wasn’t a free experience, it was expensive when you add it all up. These folks can go to most shops around here and find that quickly. I don’t know if they even like the feeling or if they think it’s normal. I’m still longing for that feeling. I’m jealous of what they have.

I tried to join Japanese American groups and no word of Japanese gets spoken without a harsh accent. I long to hear it again, in its natural form.

[b14ck-b34r5]

GUESS WHO GOT RELEASED FROM THE PSYCH WARD TWO WEEKS EARLIER THAN ANTICIPATED‼️ 👀😋

[infectiousimp]

I need people who worked/ work in Psych words to stop posting stories about it online. No matter how innocent, because the comments ALWAYS ends up a disgusting ableist mess and they never moderate it

[decadadedecadencia]

Does it?

[phyco-penny]

Just got out of the hospital