I'm not gonna pl too much about my experience in the ward but essentially I was at a point where ya I just couldn't be in society, I was an active danger, the ward felt more like timeout to me. I was like 18 and I really did not feel a difference in my life if that makes sense? Like my life outside is mostly me getting up, eating, reading in my room, taking a walk outside, talking to friends on the phone, arguing with my parents, and then sleep. The ward was literally just that minus the "arguing with my parents". Another difference was when I had my schizo meltdowns, instead of destroying the entire room and banging my head against the wall till I'm drooling, they injected me with sedatives and I kinda just stopped caring about whatever I was hallucinating about. So for me it was just my normal life except the only differences in it were either positive or neutral. The only thing I really missed was school, I kinda missed having homework? Weird, right?
When it came to the psychiatrists, they were like whatever. If I didn't wanna tell them something they'd just go "Ok." and the session would end there. My sessions were never long cause apparently "I mean, it's obvious you have this" and hey I guess she was right cause every other professional I've seen has been like "Ya, this is definetly like what you have, it's textbook". Other patients complained about the psychiatrists being mean but I personally never got mean vibes, just like. Kinda straight-faced.
I really loved the therapist they set me up with but I lost contact with her unfortunately. For me the real mindrape was when I came back home and told my family about how much better I felt and they were like "Nooo it didn't help! Cause if it helped then why did you have to be away from us? We CLEARLY make you happier". Ugh. Whatever