>>548775Sorry for being late, if you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
If there was one thing everybody in the clinic agreed, was that it was not completely their fault for being there. Like i said before, most people were there because of suicide attempts, many with families and kids, by ingesting large quantities of medicine. In the opinion of the doctors who stayed in the facility for years, they noticed that, even if the treatment created positive results in most cases, a lot of the patients would end up coming back, by having other episodes of suicide attempts. The explanation for that, is that locking the patient up, making him not interact with his life before containment, don't really make him prepared to deal with his trauma/mental disorder. Also, if you didn't have a good insurance, you would need to pay a lot back.
So basically, most people there were with severe cases of mental health problems, which were put in a mental health facility against their will, by the decision of their families, obliged to share the same room with other 3 to 4 people, share 1 tv between 20 other patients, stay there with basically nothing else to do in at least 1 month, only get visits by at maximum one person, by a week, and them pay a huge amount for that "treatment". No one was happy with that situation, but if you "misbehaved" or was too persistent with staff, that was accumulated in your profile, and they could extend your time in there for months. There was people in there that talked and acted like any other person, and should stayed at max for a month or two, but had their times extended for five to six months. And, of course, people would have different opinions on why their families put them in there. Some felt angst, some felt guilty, others felt indifference and tried not to think about it, etc. It was not a prison, but it felt like it for us. Like we committed a serious crime, especially with the depressed people. Not knowing how much time they would stay there, not have access to any personal objects except cloths given by their families, and other stuff made that place suck a lot. It could be worse, since the people there at least were nice.
Few people there were violent or extremely violent, with some exceptions: A fat, big guy, who talked a lot about protestant evangelical church, who destroyed our sink, our water dri
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