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What you describe might work for the Internet addicted, the mildly depressed or maladapted people. I also think it’s unrealistic.@MirnaMinkoff
I have read a little about psychiatric wards, and I have known people who have been to them for temporary stays. I think the best way to run them would to make them a middle ground between the two types you described. I wouldn't want any of them to be cushy vacation spots with internet. I think internet should be banned inside them. From the people I know who have had temporary stays due to suicide attempts, they said that they were not allowed any electronics, and it was either a boring environment or an eye-opening environment being yelled at by schizos. They did not have any desire to stay in the ward, but they also did not feel absolutely tortured. I think making it a place you don't want to go, but also not unbearable torture either, is a good way for patients to have motivation to get better to want to get out, which maybe that's what they're going for? Patients won't feel like they're being sent to the gulag, but they also will still miss real-world luxuries like the internet.
Internet detoxes in general tend to be good for those that are addicted to it. But if they're convinced the internet is the only place they're "accepted" (since they're Nonbinary Asexual Sapioromantic Polyamorous or whatever), that can be hard to detach from. So maybe they need to be forced to have time away from it in a ward.
Edit: Providing practical education or trades work training in them would also be good, since it's something they can continue once they're out of ward treatment. And if it's one of the few limited activities in the ward they can do, then they'll naturally be more inclined toward it. Cushy vacation wards with internet won't be effective in changing anything about the patient because they'll just continue their same behaviors.
When I speak of a place like Creedmore the population is the violently and severely mentally ill. If you are a homeless man who murders someone on the streets because you knew he was Satan and are found “not guilty by reason of insanity” you go to Creedmore. The place got a reputation because the patients were so violent and deranged.
The psychiatric and pharmaceutical industries are happy to label anyone with mental disorder that schedules appt. Most ppl just need structure, restraint and discipline in their lives. The biggest problem I see with the “not severely mentally ill” overly self-involved population is if they are dissatisfied, alienated or unhappy they believe it’s not their responsibility- they want a pill, a doctor, the system, society, etc…to fix it for them and that’s retarded. It’s up to the individual.
The psychiatric industry found catering to the worried well, neurotic young ppl, unhappy adolescents, etc… pays way better and is much easier than dealing with the legitimately and severe mentally. It started in the 1950’s when psychiatrists realized they could make a better living listening to rich people vent and complain vs being poorly paid for dealing with schizophrenics who wanted to gouge their eyes out. It’s just kept growing in that direction ever since to reach the absurdities of today where they claim 1 in 5 Americans is “dealing with mental illness”
I see it a lot with people crying about “lacking support system” Which boils down to complaining “others are not doing enough for me”. Actual support systems are something you build with others via IRL work, responsibility, dependability and diplomacy from everyone involved in it. Vicky is just an extreme example of the “I want everyone to do things for me, but I can’t possible be arsed to anything for others, it’s all about ME ME ME” (except retweet GFMs)