I’m kinda on risk for being put into one, so I kinda wanted to learn some stuff about how is it inside those. I think my biggest fear there is boredoom. Like, will I be able to videocall friends and/or listen to music there? Will my mp3 player/portable chinese retro emulator/phone/any eletronic be confiscated there?
Overcrowded, understaffed, patients with different mental issues all lumped in together, minimal outside time, 5-10 people all sleeping* in the same room.
*You couldn’t really sleep because there was always someone in the halls screaming at the demons in their head. The only real sleep I got was when I was put into solitary for having a mental breakdown from sleep deprivation due to said screaming
As someone who was there to get help from attempting suicide, the whole experience just made me want to try again.