I'm in Australia but the system sounds similar. I've been scheduled before because I refused to come in as a voluntary patient. I've been in a ward before as a voluntary patient and based on that experience, I never want to be in such an environment again. I don't know what the private system is like but the public one is like a prison. Because I refused, they called the police after I left the hospital. Of course, the police turn up at my parents home at 4am in the morning.. my parents don't need that drama and neither do I. If I was having a heart attack, they'd send an ambulance but instead they sick their dogs on you to drag you back.
It's like a jail - at least the public system is. I was also threatened to be scheduled again by a person part of the team who do a follow up after you are released because I refused to allow them to visit my home (I agreed to this just to get the fuck out of the hospital). Shortly after you're admitted, they sit you down with a psych, his intern or some student and 2 nurses, ask you a bunch of questions and while the others sit there and watch you like an exhibit. It's such a game, one can't pretend they are 100% well otherwise they know you're lying while on the other hand, you can't be truthful because then you know they're going to force you to stay. I have insight into my delusions and I know which ones are real and which are not.
I managed to talk them into letting me leave and thankfully avoided the poisonous, mind numbing shit they say I should take. In the event they would force me to stay, I already figured out a way to scale the wall and leave. Of course, you can imagine the drama that would proceed that, thank fuck it did not come to that but I will not take their medications.
The first time I was in voluntary, they put me on zyprexa (pretty sure these medications have caused me numerous health issues) and I got out a week later and stopped taking that rubbish but the 2nd time they forced me into the hospital. Now, I won't contact them again regardless of what I need, you're best to keep it all to yourself because these people will kill you, it might not be their intent but they are so biased by the fact you're in there as a patient that they feel they need to give you something regardless of the reality.
BTW - being scheduled stays on your medical record. So now in the event that I actually need some medical assistance, they'll look at my history, think "oh he's been scheduled before, lets schedule him again!" I'm pretty sure I have some sort of brain problem (aneurysm, tumour, cancer, not sure) but I can't get help because the moment I mention this stuff, they'll assume it's because of my past history. I can die here or I can die there, which do you think I'm gonnna choose huh?
These places don't help the mentally ill, they just drug them up and shutter them away.
It's like a jail - at least the public system is. I was also threatened to be scheduled again by a person part of the team who do a follow up after you are released because I refused to allow them to visit my home (I agreed to this just to get the fuck out of the hospital). Shortly after you're admitted, they sit you down with a psych, his intern or some student and 2 nurses, ask you a bunch of questions and while the others sit there and watch you like an exhibit. It's such a game, one can't pretend they are 100% well otherwise they know you're lying while on the other hand, you can't be truthful because then you know they're going to force you to stay. I have insight into my delusions and I know which ones are real and which are not.
I managed to talk them into letting me leave and thankfully avoided the poisonous, mind numbing shit they say I should take. In the event they would force me to stay, I already figured out a way to scale the wall and leave. Of course, you can imagine the drama that would proceed that, thank fuck it did not come to that but I will not take their medications.
The first time I was in voluntary, they put me on zyprexa (pretty sure these medications have caused me numerous health issues) and I got out a week later and stopped taking that rubbish but the 2nd time they forced me into the hospital. Now, I won't contact them again regardless of what I need, you're best to keep it all to yourself because these people will kill you, it might not be their intent but they are so biased by the fact you're in there as a patient that they feel they need to give you something regardless of the reality.
BTW - being scheduled stays on your medical record. So now in the event that I actually need some medical assistance, they'll look at my history, think "oh he's been scheduled before, lets schedule him again!" I'm pretty sure I have some sort of brain problem (aneurysm, tumour, cancer, not sure) but I can't get help because the moment I mention this stuff, they'll assume it's because of my past history. I can die here or I can die there, which do you think I'm gonnna choose huh?
These places don't help the mentally ill, they just drug them up and shutter them away.