whaddya think?

tell me? tell me? tell me? please please please?

lololololololololololol

bum.

Good question!

Is that like, if a tree falls...

Watch Fringe.....

That's the twist in Shutter Island? omg spoilers much?

It depends on how crazy you are

How was Shutter Island, by the way?

awesome, probably best movie i saw last year, top 3 at least...

Really? I may rent it then

it was grand, until:


:)

Just asked my bf - he didn't know for a while, but he did figure it out. He now works in a psychiatric ward and several of the clients have an insight that that's why they're there.

eh? what's their insight?

interesting please tell more

It depends on how medicated they are, and how bad it is. I can use my mother as a personal example. In the early stages of her disease with the right medication she was more or less normal and knew why she had to occasionally go there. Later on though as her brain continued to deteriorate I highly doubt there was much brain activity at all. The one time she did have a lapse from not taking her medication she did in fact know where they were taking her, but was convinced of some delusion or another. So she knew it was a mental health institute, but for example she thought her dad was sending here there to be.. uhh well bad things. After she was put back on medication, completely back to normal (well until the disease progressed that is). There's no hard or fast answer, but for most cases? I would say they probably know what the building is supposed to be for or claimed, but not necessarily believe that.

Well, I suppose if they are aware that they have been sectioned under the mental health act then they are on the way to recovery (he's now gone to bed, so I can't be sure that's right). Talking from personal experience with him, when he was first sectioned, he believed it was due to some kind of government conspiracy until he got brilliant psychotherapists and psychologists who could convince him otherwise and get him on the right track. Can't talk about his patients as I really don't know much about them - but at the start he couldn't bring himself to believe it and thought he was either in a test lab, or a reality TV set, or a combination of the two.

When I was younger...like 7 or 8, I played around with the idea of me being trapped inside my mind, and people outside were just watching me react to things I was doing outside my mind...

The real question is, would you care?

You would if you thought you were being kept against your will for other reasons, surely?

As stated above, it depends on the type of mental disorder and how severe it is.
'Crazy' is a subjective term, and psychiatric hospitals treat a very broad range of patients.

I do know this much, that doctors sometimes become the patients, and patients sometimes become the doctors. I know 2 people who worked in the same facility, and one was my sister-in-law. Some of the stories told lead me to believe, that if I were to spend just one afternoon in there, I would have to stay there. Because I would go loon doggy. :unsure:

Fun fact: I used to have a phobia of being involuntarily committed.
Probably had something to do with my obsession with the Victorian period, and how they used to treat patients. >.>

Lol that's not that half of it - see what they used to do with an "upset of the humours" :sick:

Hopefully not in the Victorian era...

And "A Beautiful Mind".

True, but not too far before the Victorian era - I personally wouldn't like to be called mad in any of the past ages; not a good time to be considered mad (if there ever is a good time :teehee: )!

Okay, now I'm miffed. I read an awesome psychological thriller/horror book in the 80's (I think it was then) about an abandoned mental institute. Would love to buy it again and read it, but can't since I can't think of the name. <_<


:rofl: http://www.strangeusa.com/ViewLocation.aspx?locationid=298 is the state hospital my sister-in-law usd to work at. (And the other person I know) And I am cracking up laughing at the things people are saying.