Analysis: What It's Like To Be In A Mental Hospital

Open your mind and imagine what it would be like to be in a Mental Hospital. Did you imagine rash behaviors from the patients and the staff? How about the invasive treatments and the cot like beds with thin blankets you would have had to sleep with? Before the 1940’s, the stories that most people have heard coming out of Mental Hospitals were very brutal. However, in recent years, Mental Hospitals have changed in many helpful ways. This can be seen in the ways patients are treated and the way they are housed.
If we are to discuss what it’s like to be in a Mental Hospital, we should first discuss how a person would be admitted. Usually, a person gets put into a Mental Hospital because they are under their own assumption that they have some type of mental illness and would like to get monitored/analyzed by a professional to see if their hunch was correct. But in some cases, occurrences with the law or any other public official that makes it seem like the person is in danger of him/herself or any other person can get them placed in a facility. The definition of mental illness is a disease in the brain that causes mild to severe disturbances in thought or behavior, which results in the inability to cope with daily life problems. Some mental illnesses include different levels of depression, bipolar …show more content…
There are actual beds, and there are hospitals that house the patients like they were in a home. However, there are preplanned schedules that are followed daily and a patient is rarely ever left alone. This is beneficial but could also cause a few complications if a patient was introverted and wanted to be by themselves all the time. Having pre planned schedules made it so there wouldn’t be extreme changes to anything that could cause an outbreak in the patients. The outside of the hospitals still look like prisons, but the insides are usually very