do you think that mental hospitals really help the mentally ill ? if so please tell me why.?
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If a person is inpatient at a psychiatric hospital, they are usually a danger to themselves or others.  There they can be medically monitored, medicated and restrained if necessary to be safe.  Once they have calmed down, they will have therapy several times a day and try to fix what can be fixed.  Hopefully when they leave and stay on their medications, continue outpatient therapy.....they will no longer be a danger to anyone and can work and live normally.  That's how it's supposed to work.  For the most part it does.  Some people are just unable to live outside of an institutional setting and that's a damn shame.
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Like everyone is saying, therapists are not there to judge. \n\nOnly by being honest with your therapist can they really help you, otherwise therapy is pretty much a waste of time. And this is exactly the kind of problem they are there to help you solve.\n\nInpatient hospitalization seems to help in limited ways. It keeps you safe by putting you in a safe place, also it takes you away (briefly) from everyday stressors. Overall, I don't think it's much of a long term solution though. I don't know anyone who went to the hospital and came out all better. There needs to be follow up treatment. \n\nSometimes going inpatient is the best idea, it will get you started or adjusted on medication. If that is something you need that is not being addressed, the hospital is one way to make something happen with that. If you feel like you are truly a danger to yourself or someone else, it is probably the best place to be.\n\nBut if you are trying to solve a more long term problem with a more long term solution, I recommend seeing if you can get into an outpatient program called Partial Hospitalization. It is intensive treatment day program. The one I went to had a doctor there at all times and was very focused on A) getting each person stabilized and B) teaching coping skills and such. This is the kind of thing you can carry with you long after the program ends...these life skills. The program I went to was based on something called DBT. (for more info check out www.dbtselfhelp.com). \n\nThe point of the program was to keep people from needing to go to the hospital or helping them transition out of it. From listening to what most people in the program had to say, I found that almost all found the partial program significantly more helpful than being inpatient. \n\nThe Partial program is a somewhat new concept and I don't think it is offered everywhere (but hopefully, eventually it will be.) It was the best thing that ever happened to me, in 20 + years of trying to get help. If there is not one near you (or even if there is), ask about DBT groups. They can really change your life in a lot of ways. \n\nThis is a tough road, but there is a light at the end. While trapped in the midst of major depression, it does not feel that way. But I promise you, there is hope even though you can't feel it right now. I speak from many years of painful experience and suffering and trying to make things right.
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No. Insane people often can't help their mental imbalance. Christians are lunatics by choice.
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Most psychiatric hospitals have drug/alcohol units. Some regular hospitals do...I would check their first. If you lived in AR I could tell you some places.
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Honestly, I don't know for sure. The site I am showing below is the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). You can start there and see what you can find. I am bipolar myself and try to help others with mental disorders where I can. Good luck, I hope you have lots of success in your efforts.
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Tremendously. Most doctors say most illnesses are created and cured by the mind.\nIt's called Psychosoma
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These 96 hr holds are ridiculous for mental patients the Dr. don't have time to evaluate them thoroughly and then they turn them back on the streets.  They are like little children and nowhere to go IT IS SAD. Our politicians cut fundings for them.  And their isn't enough hospitals or facilities to take care of them all.  \n  They need facilities and clothing and good evaluations and to be treated humanly.  I guess since most of them don't vote politicians can afford to look the other way.sad but true.
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Because in this country you are homeless because you want to be.\n\nFirst, thank the left wingers back in the late 70's to early 80's for their great "De-institutionalization" idea.  That flung tens of thousands of people out of mental hospitals and onto the streets.\n\nWhy you ask?  Because the do-gooders thought that keeping all the mental patients together just made them all crazier.  \n\nAnd surveys have shown that a lot of "homeless" are like that because they want to be.  Many are severe alcoholics and drug addicts.  There are a large amount of social service agencies out there to help the poor.  But, if you don't want to help yourself, you will continue to be a bum.\n\nAnd no, I don't give them money because you are only going to encourage their unhappy existence by doing so.  Only when you hit rock bottom will you finally pick yourself up and try to change your life for the better.  That is if you want to.
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Your 3rd what?  In any case, some people may make it up, but even then that means that there is still a mental illness at hand. You could have the genetic traits for bipolar disorder within you for years until they are triggered by something and then you need treatment. Mental illness is real. Unfortunately, some do believe as you just said and think it's a fairy tale. I'm here to tell you that it isn't. Those people don't help the situation either. They need an education on the facts about mental illness and what it does to people. I hope that things start to look up for you, keep up with your treatment and don't let the naysayers in.
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I can't say that I ever have. However, I've seen the mental ward at our local hospital. Looks like ordinary hospital rooms to me. I think the padded rooms went out many years ago!!!
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I work with people with various types and levels of mental illnesses and I think medication help reasonably normalize their living conditions, however, considering the long history of mental illness amongst us, and the advancement of our medical technology, I think we should have come up with a one stop gap medication that could help the condition without having to take over 15 different medications.
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I live in IL, a state given the grade of "F" by the National Institute for Mental Health (NAMI). Lack of funding, community resource, poor communication between inpatient and outpatient care. It is so SAD and FRUSTRATING to sit in a therapy group and listen to the majority of people who say they have nobody there for them.\nI have an illness that affects me mentally (Asperger Syndrome), and subscribe to a newsletter where I have written essays about my personal experiences with it. My way of giving back and saying thanks for having it better than most.
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I beleive in it. Some people are really Mentally unstable, However there are people who play the system. I have a friend who acts like she is Bi polar and she is not. Ive know her for years and she was on Welfare for years. Well her kids are older so Welfare told her she had to get a job and she is lazy and really ds not have job skills. She acted like she was having suicidal thoughts. Its all a scam. Well, Long story short she got it. She now gets disability wich is alot more than welfare was giving her and gets disability for 2 of the kids. She made them get tested for ADD or something like that. Its ridiculous. They put those kids on meds and they dont need it. She is playing the system.
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My personal opinion, mental illness.
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I have run a community based mental health unit for many years within the NHS. (STATE HOSPITAL).\nI am truly sorry that you have had such a bad experience whilst receiving mental health care. May I assure you that this is not the case everywhere. If I overheard a member of my staff speaking like that to any patient they wouldn't have a job for very long. Complaints of this nature are taken very seriously in our hospital trust, patient dignity is a paramount concern. The underpinning philosophy of care at my unit is:\n'People will forget what you said,\nforget what you did,\nbut they will never forget the way you made them feel.'\nBelieve me it works, we still have cards and presents at Christmas from patients long discharged.
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Sadly the Governments do not want to spend the money to protect these people. We need more mental health doctors and support workers, so those with a major mental health condition is treated and supported correctly with in the community.\n\nMentally ill people are have the same thoughts and feelings as any one else, except they have periods of extreme depression/mania etc, needling hospital treatment, once deemed to be "normal" or "functional". They are released back into the community, usually some with support, including their doctor. \n\nIf the support system fails, (usually due to lack of funding) or the person is not taking their medication, they fall back into severe depression/mania, requiring hospital treatment again. Which is really sad for the patient and family. \n\nIf some one behaviour is so erratic and are a danger to themselves and the community they will be sanctioned and placed into hospital until they can show they are fully functional again. \n\nCreating a vicious circle for the sufferer, their family, friends and the  community. Even more of a concern is the people who are so unwell and can not afford to seek help, so fall through  the system gaps and ends up in jail or living on the street. \n\nRegardless of the persons race, colour, wealth or lack of we are all human, and should have access to medical care. Its a right not a luxury.
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Yes I did.  I wish more people knew that people with schizophrenia are not violent people, not usually.  It's actually very rare.  People with schizophrenia are just people who are tormented by hallucinations that are caused by a chemical imbalance.