Average Day in an Insane Asylum

Mental institutions are often villainized in popular culture and movies as being a terrifying insane asylum, but inside these institutions are dedicated workers who devote their lives to taking care of people who can't mentally take care of themselves. Check out what the average day inside an insane asylum is really like in today's new video.

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[jamie]

I was in one, if you aren’t crazy when you enter, you will be once you leave. Please don’t ever send anyone there. The abuse and trauma the patients suffer is horrific and still haunts me

[vp]

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[JamestheAviator]

Insane Asylum, a mental hospital and a mental health facility are different things. An insane asylum deals with criminals who are mentally let's say crazy, while a mental hospital or psychiatric hospital are people who are really struggling with life and need 24/7 help and protection from themselves.

[samanthabianco]

It was like halfway between a prison and a preschool. I got to color during my visit but I couldn’t leave when I wanted

[lovinitall]

I consented to going into a mental hospital for depression and seeing things that weren't there after I had been asleep .Turns out I have a sleep disorder that gives hallucinations.Kind of awake and asleep at the same time.
The scariest thing is being in there with crazy people and absolutely some of the Drs are crazier than the patients .

[lucidlemonarts]

My mom just left the mental hospital yesterday. She checked herself in to figure out her medical mental issues. She was in there for four days. They didn’t do any of the therapy that they said they would. She had two roommates, one with schizophrenia, and another that was put in for throwing wet dog food at her parents (lol) She felt unsafe there, because there were swarms of people with mental issues and only two security guards in her building that she knows of. She is thankful to be home to say the least, even though before she left she hated being inside.

[BuckBlaziken]

I was admitted into a psych ward for having really deep depression. This is pretty accurate to the actual schedule within a mental health hospital.

Food was predetermined the day before, they give you a menu and with a red crayon you circled what food you wanted the day before. Admittedly it makes you kinda hungry for the food the day before, and you look forward to the food for an entire day.

The basic schedule went like
Wake up
Eat breakfast
Therapy class
Social skills class
Lunch
Recreational therapy
Visitation hour/relaxation hour
Snack time
Relaxation hour
Dinner
Shower hour
Some more relaxation
Bed time

Occasionally every 15 minutes a nurse will come around and peep through the door and watch as you sleep to ensure you’re not trying to do something harmful to yourself.

[MarkThe_Nerd]

Pretty true to life. I’m a former patient of a mental hospital, and this is very accurate.

[Lazzie_the_Psilocybe_Deity]

I've been in and out of mental hospitals. I've felt worse off in the hospital..

[Just-A-Panda]

Ive been in one. I was 13, my routine was
7:30 wake up
8:00 indoor movement
8:30 breakfast
9:00 force counciling
10:00 group free time, room time
12:00 lunch
12:00-1:00 most common visiting time
1:00 free time and snack, lucky we got tv
4:00 head count, movement, and calls usually
5:00 coloring
6:00 dinner
7:00 downtime, not free time, you were in your bed but no sleeping
8:00 we got to use the rec room if we were lucky
9:00 bed

Somewhere in there we go meds, naps, showers, ect, ect. We had a strap room, padded room, personal rooms, but horrible quality.
We got to go on probation for a few hours but had to come back and sometimes we could leave the hospital grounds.
Then you were let go.
It
Was
A
Horrible
Time

[shadesilverwing]

Going through this with my dad, had him taken to hospital by police, released a few days later unable to cope, we are now trying to help put his life back together starting from the beginning by getting him a place to live and money to manage. Its scary and stressful not only for the person going through a mental health crisis but also for the families.

[ral]

I’ve been admitted 4 times, and, frankly, it doesn’t help. I become so desperate to leave this boring stressful environment, I just say or do whatever I need to get out. Maybe I’d get more out of it if I wasn’t forced to stay with people far more unstable than me?

[tanzien]

As someone who has been through 5 of these things I can highly confirm that this video 99% accurate. The only thing that they got wrong is the group meetings for personal treatment is usually just you and your doctor unless your a minor then you have you're legally guardians present as well. And group therapy is a complete oxymoron, if you say you are starting to feel more sane or mentally healthy then the councilor present is only a second away from saying, your not ready. And the questions asked to patients are a crime all of there own. They ask extremely personal questions in front of other patients who have no business knowing the answers to. To top it all off if you don't answer these extremely personal questions during group therapy then its considered refusing medical help which can get you more time in the ward. They do this purposely because they know you don't feel comfortable talking about it so that you dont participate that way they can say you are refusing medical help. This way they get you a longer sentence and make more money.

[TweetyTwT]

I was a trainee in an asylum some years ago. Was very interesting to see their methods and treatments, especially the electro shock. It was also cozy sometines, I remember going with a patient to a museum owned by the asylum and generally taking walks with them, also to supermarket and a local recycle store. It was generally quite peaceful there, well, I was in the ward for depressive patients, so not the most difficult or active one, but we still had all kind of patients with different diagnoses like schizophrenia, eating disorders and one time even taking in a forensic psychiatric patient temporary. Sometimes serious things would happen like depressed youngsters swallowing razor blades and self harming or bipolar or schizophrenic patients freaking out, maybe damaging themself too by bumping their head into a wall. I'm glad I was at that ward though, one of the other trainees was in a ward with many schizophrenic patients and she experienced a bizarre episode of one that was basically touching himself while being in the common room. They do get medicated ofcourse but you'll still experience episodes of patients with inappropriate behaviour sometimes. Personally for me it was be quite energy draining to be there, very interesting and educational but the patients can require much attention and care besides the treatment itself. So, huge respect from me to the workers in asylums! I did leave the field I was studying that time (occupational therapy) since I found out working so close with humans weren't for me and I was only getting more demotivated the further I got into the study, so of course the asylum was extra difficult for me since I didn't share the same motivation and interest in the field as someone else studying it would. But that doesn't mean the job in a ward isn't nice or interesting - if you like to help and work with humans, then it'll probably be an awesome field! Possibly challenging at times, but also very interesting

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[dashamm]

Modern mental hospitals are more boring than scary. The scary part is the anticipation of when you leave if you're getting services when you get out because of waiting lists

[why_mom]

Imagine him being your history teacher.

[HenryC]

I was institutionalized at Psychiatric hospital “Cruz del Norte” at Hermosillo, Sonora and is far from being a good hospital, the staff make sure to dehumanize you, neglect you and turn your family against of you. I have bipolar disorder and they where giving me uppers like Ritalin to keep me manic. I am willing to share my story to everyone to make sure human rights are applied to EVERY SINGLE PATIENT.

[zeratulthedark]

I checked into an emergency facility once years ago. My depression was getting out of hand and I needed time away from daily life to adjust to new medication and some structure. Food wasn't bad, but not being able to shave without someone watching was a bit annoying. Mostly I was bored af, and did what I could to skip out on group therapy. Because of my job at the time, I was allowed to skip on group and only had to do one on one therapy with the shrink. They reluctantly let me go after 8 days. They didn't want to let me go because my assessment score was still not where they would have liked it, however I had to repeatedly explain that my score would never be the same as others because of my duties.

[vindictivegrind]

Average day: *Patients get their heads tased and they act even worse*