Category: Mental Hospital

  • Reflections On A Mental Health Ward

    It has been a while since I gave reflections on a mental health ward admission.   As I said the last time, one never gets used to being admitted.  Well for me, I never did.  My very first experience had knocked me for six! By my final admission to a mental health ward,  I had…

  • My Experience Of Being Sectioned

    My Experience Of Being Sectioned

    By Stewart Bint In many ways, being sectioned was a bittersweet experience. On the one hand frightening and overwhelming, but on the other, warm and comforting – forming protection against the outside world. My counsellor had originally admitted me as a voluntary patient to a private psychiatric clinic – the Woodbourne Priory in Birmingham –…

  • Feelings on a Psychiatric Ward

    by Mina I was recently admitted to a psychiatric ward for about ten days. My first response was disbelief.   It had been a year since my last admittance.  I had been well and bipolar disorder had not got the better of me.  So disappointment and disbelief were my initial emotions. I basically slept on…

  • Life on a Mental Health Ward: First few days

    We began a tale of mental wards the last time.  One never gets used to being in a mental/psychiatric hospital.  Every stay is a new experience.  It is also another detour in one’s desperate escape from the enemy of mental illness. All types of mental health ailments are represented in the ward with people at various stages…

  • Life on a Mental Health Ward

    Thomas, (not his real name), had taken us out for a meal in China Town. Lovely fellow, friend and colleague. I had just resigned my position at work to go to better climes even though I thoroughly enjoyed my workmates, and efforts had been made for me to stay. It was a brilliant Friday send…