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Inpatient care

Ladybug5

Does anyone have experience in being in an inpatient or psychiatric ward etc…

Especially before I was medicated, and still sometimes, I would feel like I need to be in a ward because everything is too overwhelming and I guess it’s feeling like I don’t want to br in control anymore because I can’t do it. As well as depressive thoughts etc… I don’t know how to explain really because of course I dont want to have to be in hospital but I need someone to take me out of my life ? 
but I know that these places aren’t actually beneficial to people always? 

i feel out of options

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  • I’ve had two spells on a psychiatric ward and it’s absolutely the last place an autistic person should be. It is noisy, unpredictable, brightly lit, often aggressive (mainly other patients but some staff too), a total sensory nightmare around things like fabrics/food/sounds etc, unstructured, chaotic, controlling, and there’s precious little actual psychiatric help. I never witnessed the physical abuse which was shown in the two documentaries on the subject in Bolton and south Manchester, but emotionally I did feel very very vulnerable and controlled in ways which could be interpreted as emotional abuse. 

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  • I’ve had two spells on a psychiatric ward and it’s absolutely the last place an autistic person should be. It is noisy, unpredictable, brightly lit, often aggressive (mainly other patients but some staff too), a total sensory nightmare around things like fabrics/food/sounds etc, unstructured, chaotic, controlling, and there’s precious little actual psychiatric help. I never witnessed the physical abuse which was shown in the two documentaries on the subject in Bolton and south Manchester, but emotionally I did feel very very vulnerable and controlled in ways which could be interpreted as emotional abuse. 

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