idk how to comment so ok i’ve been in the psych ward 5 times,
the first time: in for an alivn’t attempt. i was eleven, lasted for five days
second: i was 12 when i went in, i was in for a manic episode, after i ran away and talked to cats 15 miles away from my home. spent my thirteenth birthday there. lasted for eleven days
third: i was in for an alivn’t attempt, i actually got an artery but i was in school, and i got pulled out on a stretcher while they put pressure on my wrist and rushed me to the hospital. lasted for eleven days
forth: i was in because they found drugs in my backpacks, and i faked a manic episode to get out of it. turns out i was actually manic, and i (to my knowledge at the time) started hallucinating . i was in the hospital for a month and a half. this was a short term hospital, and the expected stay was 3-10 days. they tried to put me in residential, but my mom refused. they had someone follow me everywhere, at all times. they watched me in the bathroom the whole stay.
fifth: right after the forth time. i should have gone to that residential. they treated me like shit because one of my diagnosis were bpd. i was in there because i stopped talking completely for ten days straight, and they freaked.