How a Leading Chain of Psychiatric Hospitals Traps Patients

Problem is, it was also really shitty care when it was government run, because they always ran under a shoestring budget.

This is not really even about that because yes, people are being held in these places involuntarily, but a lot of people voluntarily check themselves in- Acadia even works on propaganda to get them to do it- and then can't leave. People who want things like an evaluation for bipolar disorder or an adjustment in medication or just plain old therapy.

Here in the UK there was a former inpatient who was released during Thatchers deinstitutionalization in 80s and within weeks he killed his doctor.

It's a new franchise.

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I was in multiple psych wards in the UK as a minor and hooo boy were they not good. Most were state-run but one time there wasn't enough beds in state-run wards so I spent 3 months in a private psych ward paid for by the NHS. This was the worst of all. There were clear signs of them taking their time to release people so they'd have enough beds full. I mean we were all there against our will anyway but they dragged it out. It was awful in lots of other ways but I'll save that for the memoirs.

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Reminds me of how there were stories when I lived in L.A. of ERs dumping grandparents with dementia on skid row. People finding out their grandma was wandering around amongst the junkies in a hospital gown and one slipper.

I spent a few years repairing medical equipment in halfway homes, psychiatric institutions, and nursing homes. All for low income people. I am definitely going to die before I ever end up in one of those shitholes. Literal hell on earth all of them. People screaming pointlessly for attention or pain relief into hallways populated only with jaded and underpaid Nigerian woman who can barely keep up because they are so understaffed.