Are mental hospitals sometimes or many times …FUN and enjoyable??..:)?
IT depends on what facility you wind up in. Having been in 4 different ones myself, I have found that some places are MUCH better than others. Usually, the psychiatric ward of your local hospital provides MUCH better care than an independent psych hospital. The morning usually consists of a check-in meeting where you talk about your feelings with the rest of the community (including nurses, doctors, liasons), and going over the schedule for the day. This is usually followed by breakfast and a several group therapy meetings, which there are breaks between. Every day is different. Some days there will be Pet Therapy, some days there will be Music Therapy, some days will be Recreation Therapy. They make sure it’s not boring. There’s usually a lot of downtime for you to take naps, read, or watch TV with the community. However, they do encourage you not to seclude yourself from everyone else. That means, out of room, interacting with the other patients, being social. THey really work with y
