When one thinks of psych wards in America, they often picture the horror stories shown in movies and television. They think of scary, violent, out-of-their-mind people being bound up, locked up, and forcibly medicated against their will.
That’s the picture I had in mind throughout my life, even after graduating college with a degree in counseling. Even though those were the images in my head, I thought for sure those stereotypes couldn’t be accurate in this day and age.
While the stereotypes portrayed in the movies aren’t completely true, upon my first admission to a psych hospital, I found out they actually weren’t too far off from what I had envisioned.
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