Is it normal that i miss being institutionalised?

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A few years ago I went into in patient for mental health issues. I’d overworked myself and my brain blew I fuse. I became unresponsive and I didn’t care about anything anymore.

It’s been a few years now and I feel perfectly fine, but I miss being there.

I felt safe, and happy to just concentrate on myself for once. I miss how I felt when I was ill. Everything in my head was so calm and I had no cares. Now I do. My life is so busy again and sometimes I just want to live the rest of my life in-patient where I can just retreat whenever I want.

Anyone relate?

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  • paramore93
    6 years ago

    Those places aren't holiday camps.
    Sure you felt safe but you had somebody else running your life, telling you when to eat/sleep/socialise/when you're allowed outside/what is okay to think about. Would you really want to live the rest of your life locked up with somebody else controlling every aspect of your life? That's not life.
    It would also be immoral if there were people out there who needed the care more than you.
    Go live in a hotel instead.

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  • Facestand
    6 years ago

    Absoloutly I relate. Its a hectic unforgiving and uncaring world full of selfish people and corperations trying to steal every cent they can from you. To want to escape this madness is only natural.

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  • otooy1204
    6 years ago

    I don't know why but I kinda want to be institutionalized, I have autism, bipolar, and schizophrenia and I just feel like I can't connect with neuroticals, I always felt like there would be people I could understand.

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  • CrookedPigeon
    5 years ago

    When your in there, there is nothing you can do about being there, so all you have to do is exist. You don't have to worry about anything because everything is done for you. Meals, showers, therapy, meds, etc. But things are done to you too. You must not have been in there very long. What if they ordered you a nice round of electro shock therapy for your depression and they held you down and electrocuted you till you drooled and pissed yourself EVERY day? You aren't a person anymore, your a patient. You have to receive the treatments/therapy the psychiatrist orders for you whether you agree to them or not. If you just need a break from life for a while, go fucking camping or take off by yourself. You don't want to being there long term. Life's hard . It sucks sometimes but at least it's YOURS and you can do with it as you like. Don't take it for granted

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  • StrangeHuman
    6 years ago

    I also miss it, being in the real world sucks, it felt so safe there...

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  • fakeaccount2
    6 years ago

    “blew a fuse ... became unresponsive”
    I honestly wish I could do that..how??. I need to leave this life anyway possible soon but I have too many people depending on me right now to where death would be selfish and shameful, but if something were to happen naturally to at least get me out of here for a bit then maybe someone would finally get it

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    • Emilyx33x
      6 years ago

      It was an accident, and everybody’s different. I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re not already prone to it.

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