 what's going on you lot welcome back to my channel day we're doing a Q&A about inpatient don't let me try don't let me try i was like questions about inpatient and i thought hey while i'm getting ready i can sit and answer questions i'm getting a new phone you know guys so i asked on twitter for questions because junk shop asks how heavily regulated was your schedules under various sections none of the adult wards really have schedules that i've been on they have things set up that you can go and do like activities you're going to do like gym walk if you have leave but it depends like if you're in hospital and formally you can obviously leave the ward if you're on a section you have to have section 17 leave it's really hard to fight to get if you're known to be a flight risk you're going to be ashamed of but some patients if they get the opportunity like me just like it and staff have to be responsible and they like is this person actually stable enough that if they did do a run-off they could they would they be okay for until they got brought back that's the mentality behind it so when it comes to schedules that aren't really any um there's usually a whiteboard somewhere with a list of what's going on in the day and if i can find a photo for my phone i will put it here first stupid unlock in the morning never eating i've never had breakfast while i've been in hospital they have to wake me up to give me my meds and then i fall back asleep and then there'll be a lunch time which is 12 12 30 evening meal is 5 p.m visitors usually start from 2 p.m there's some wards i've been on all day like 8 a.m. 8 p.m part of them restricted time restricted times are meal times because obviously there are patients on the ward that have eating disorders and they don't want to eat around people or strangers especially they don't need more people around that's why meal times are restricted time but when it comes to schedules the main thing is meds and meals obviously different sections have different time lengths so section five part two has 72 hours section one three six 24 hours renewable by up to renewable by 12 hours section three is six months renewable consistently section 37 is a like a court judgment it like it gets really complicated when it comes to sections next question is from julie so is being inpatient scary boring scary or boring um right so portray accurately in films no so what a ward looks like i'll put some pictures on screen now but the first time you go in it's intimidating because you're in a room filled with people that you don't know that are struggling themselves you know it's it's intimidating after a day or two kind of just get you i get used to it i adapt really well to different to like new situations though so it varies person to person but is it portrayed accurately in the media absolutely not they're technically speaking in a safe place and they're at a hospital like they're not there to be fun oh my god bronze right my forehead oh god oh god oh god because we're in with my highlighter molly was it scary for you at times i got attacked by a patient on my last admission i've only been attacked once by a patient then you say if you sit in peace it's getting restrained not really have i myself been restrained yes um when i was self-harming obviously they came in and then moved the blade from hand and you know they sedated me but i took the tablets it was an option to take the tablets or you know you're getting injected deal with that so i yeah i always took the tablets but i try and do it as privately in a secretively as they can which is good because patient confidentiality you know they try and do it as privately as they can all staff have an alarm well and if they see something or they're concerned or they think you're self-harming they're not going to go in on their own or they'll go in see you doing it and pull an alarm when i was in a and e it was different because if you do something in a and e it's dealt with differently to in a psychiatric unit if you self-harming a and e they don't have an alarm they have to pull the crash button which means all of the staff are running in they've just did if they've just pulled the bell that means you're like dead yeah the heart anything is a different experience and i will make a different video on that because it's a whole different process but no i i honestly i haven't seen that many people getting restrained when i was in blankish here in hospital i saw two of my friends getting restrained and watching it happen to someone else is heartbreaking haven't it done to you you kind of dissociate like you just don't care i care more about other people than i do myself so when i saw what happened to other people i'd get emotional which is why honestly i spend most my time in my room where i'm in hospital because some of the patients do scare me and i have bad anxiety hospitals are not great especially psychiatric units because you never know what to expect was there any funny incidents that happened i have got a funny story thing is though a lot of my friends i've met through hospital and i wouldn't know without like the whole mental health community and i'm actually so grateful to be not to have mental illness but to be a part of the community of people like you don't realize how nice it is to have someone the other end of the phone who actually understands what you're going through and especially when you're in and out of hospital like having friends that understand what you're going through and don't judge you for it is sometimes what you need i know for me my family aren't involved in my life so whenever i go inpatient the first person i will go to is my friend not my family but yeah i hope this video has answered some of your questions about inpatient if you do have any other questions or want to hear some more stories because believe me i've got so many stories that i could tell about it's like being in the unit clutching a lot of insane shit um i screamed up through the ceiling once on it from a table when i was drunk in a ward don't get drunk when you're in hospitals it's just it's never a bad idea really