 Hey what's up you guys, welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi hello I'm Lydia and today I'm doing a collaboration video with another YouTuber called Hannah Fykes. Her link will be in the description down below and also on the icard. I hope I pointed to the right s*** in Kavana. Well the video collaboration is comparing what private hospitals are like to NHS hospitals. I have been in adult services for a while now. Hannah is in a private mental health unit at the moment and she sent me this lip of what a private room is like. This is what a typical room looks like so there's like this is a safe room so um there's a bed, a wardrobe, um shelves covered under their bed. We have an ensuite and this is just what the ensuite looks like. This is one of the newer rooms so yeah just got a toilet I think and a s*** and then the and this is what an NHS room is like. Bright coloured door and because I've mainly been in NHS hospitals I decided I'd talk a bit about what an NHS hospital is like but I'd show you at the beginning like what the obvious difference is like the rooms. Well I lived very elicious yesterday of some of the things that I want to look like. So number one is the admission process. So the admission process for I think any mental health admission is if you're having crisis you are yourself, you are risked to others or it's just needed for your treatment. For me I've been in hospital when I've been suicidal, I've also been in when I've been manic and I've also been in a mental disorder. There are the three things that I've been hospitalized because hospital admissions can occur for any mental health condition it doesn't matter if it's anxiety or if it's schizophrenia. Any mental health condition can lead to an admission it just depends how severe it is, it depends on treatment, it depends on risk level. Risk level is the main thing that things are assessed on with the NHS. My most recent admission two admissions so when I was sectioned back in January to February and then when I was in last weekend that was because I was both a risk to myself I was also experiencing some psychosis. For me it was risk to self that's pretty much always been the criteria for me to be admitted is some level of risk to myself. And then there's observation levels so inpatient linger we say levels and we know what that means. So levels vary from hourly observations 15 minute hour, one to one, two to one, three to one and then I think it's seclusion. So seclusion can also be used at any other point. I personally been in seclusion twice within the last year and that was because I was suicidal or I had made an attempt in my life, I wasn't cooperating so yeah there's that. Then we move on to medication so medication is issued usually four times a day. If you are informal it is totally within the right to refuse medication though you can then be sectioned if you are refusing to engage with treatment. I don't ever refuse medication unless I'm struggling in which case I'm probably on a section and that was the case back in January. So to give you an idea of what my medication is, is I take some in the morning, some in the afternoon, some in the evening and some at night and then I have PRN which is take when needed. Then there is a thing called I am which anyone who's been impatient anyone in the mental health community probably knows what an I am means. You've either refused to take a tablet to calm down or the tablet isn't a viable option and what it means is you don't get an Australian and then they inject you with either Lerazepam, heliparadol or Lerazepam for methazine. When I was in hospital in January to January I was I am three times once heliparadol once with just Pranephazine and once with Lerazepam and Pranephazine. I was going through a lot in that time and I haven't actually put out any videos from the experience because it wasn't good. They didn't do it when it's necessary though I've never seen it be abused. I've never personally had it abused. It's used when necessary so that's that. In NHS wards there isn't really a daily structure. The only things that are structured are meal times. They have breakfast, lunch, evening and then you have medication times. They're the only things they're rescheduled. Some wards do have activities on another day but they are not compulsory in any way or shape or form. So the next part I want to talk about is leave. There are different kinds of leave and that depends very much so on whether you are sectioned or informal informal. You can pretty much come and go as you please as long as you are not at risk. If you try and leave when you're at risk they can use section 5 part 2 of the mental health act which is a 72 hour holding power they can enforce and then it means you have to be assessed under the mental health act which in my experience has always led to me being sectioned. When you're on a section you have to get given section 17 leave to leave the hospital to even off the ward. You have to have section 17 leave. You can't. There's normally gardens on most adult wards. I happen on some where there isn't and it's horrible and I wouldn't wish it on absolutely anybody because it is horrible. Not being able to get fresh air is horrible because obviously the windows don't flip it open. Like it's a locked wall. If you are on section 2, 3, 37 whatever you have to get given section 17 leave by a consultant. So another little subject that I think people are often curious on is contraband. Wards vary. There is no guideline really wards. In Lancashire I was allowed to have my phone charger, my laptop charger, anything. Every ward I've been in in London especially and Milton Keyans you are not allowed to have a charger that is longer than like that. Like it has to be like 20 centimetres. You can't you couldn't have like this because that's seen as a ligature risk. In the UK you are allowed to have your phone charger, you are allowed to have your laptop. They give you as much freedom as they can. Like so my last video was my last admission which gives you a little overview of what NHS Hospital is like. It's nothing fancy. Private and NHS is very different. I do know someone who's in a private ward right now and someone who's in an NHS ward and there are very big differences. So I've been asked where my hoodie is and stuff and they haven't taken strings out so I don't know with that. It just varies person to person. And just to quickly draw something people probably wouldn't know what the hell that is on my forehead. So when I was in high I wrapped my head off a wall because I was having flush racks and I just needed them to start. I couldn't cope with them and I didn't even know what came out of me. I've never done it before. I whacked my head a few times off a wall and made myself go a little dizzy which not the best. And I hope this gives you a little idea of what NHS Hospital is like and if you want to know what private hospitals are like head over to Hanafite's channel. I will again link it in the comments down below and hopefully on the icard up there if I remember. And also I did make a video yesterday about my last admission which I'll link again on an icard. It just kind of explained if the admission it shows what the admission was anyway. It wasn't a very long admission. Very simply because two patients on the ward had confirmed cases so I let discharge to their home treatment team who see me they come to my flat and see me daily. So I thought this would give you a bit of an idea. This is it's been an interesting collaboration but yeah thanks for watching guys and I'll see you soon in a new video. Bye