What can I expect from requesting Inpatient care in Canada?

[boxingbeagle]

Im located in Western Canada, and although CTB is my most likely end considering it's been 15 years of non-stop ideation, I'm tempted to give inpatient a try just because. I'm a pretty good liar so I'm confident I can easily get discharged and CTB within a day or two, but I also don't want to give inpatient a try if it's nothing but a faux-comfort cell style room.

Curious to what I can expect if I straight up walk into my ER and say "I am suicidal and have a full plan in place". I know I'm going to be admitted, but I wonder if anyone gets alerted, what I can expect for the 1-7 days I estimate I'll be in there?

I'm at peace with dying so if it doesn't help, I lost nothing.

 

[turnaround]

I'm in western Canada as well.

It's truly awful. You'll have to wait at least 72 hours for a bed to become available. They won't let you sleep, they'll barely let you eat, the social workers they assign to you take forever to show up and don't even know what empathy is.

The goal is to keep you there, it's not really to help you. They most likely will not just let you stay there, there is no there, there in Canadian mental health unless you're wealthy.

Trust me. You'll be kept in a space with people you will want to not be around. You won't have access to your phone, or anything on your person. The intake is the worst, and most of the time you will be released after a mental health nurse quickly assesses you and breaks you down a bit.

You'll also need a family member to be there for your release. You aren't allowed to leave on your own. This creates many issues.

 

[Alexei_Kirillov]

I'm in Quebec so it might be a bit different but I was put in a psych ward for 3 days after a failed attempt, and it was a very negative experience. Not traumatic or anything, thank god, but you essentially become a prisoner of the state and have most of your basic rights, like privacy, removed. Like there wasn't even a door on the bathroom (and at least in my case, the staff was mostly male whereas I'm female so that was highly discomforting). I'd be surprised if you manage to get even 1000 steps a day since you're pretty much confined to your room all day. Sleep is no relief because they repeatedly shine a bright light in your room throughout the night. Anything and everything that could possibly be used to harm yourself is either unavailable to you altogether or kept under guard.

Overall, would not recommend.

 

[boxingbeagle]

I'm in western Canada as well.

It's truly awful. You'll have to wait at least 72 hours for a bed to become available. They won't let you sleep, they'll barely let you eat, the social workers they assign to you take forever to show up and don't even know what empathy is.

The goal is to keep you there, it's not really to help you. They most likely will not just let you stay there, there is no there, there in Canadian mental health unless you're wealthy.

Trust me. You'll be kept in a space with people you will want to not be around. You won't have access to your phone, or anything on your person. The intake is the worst, and most of the time you will be released after a mental health nurse quickly assesses you and breaks you down a bit.

You'll also need a family member to be there for your release. You aren't allowed to leave on your own. This creates many issues.

Thanks for the reply. The fact that family needs to be there at release is enough to deter me from checking myself in. The rest sounds like hell, so im going to stay away for now. Thx again

I'm in Quebec so it might be a bit different but I was put in a psych ward for 3 days after a failed attempt, and it was a very negative experience. Not traumatic or anything, thank god, but you essentially become a prisoner of the state and have most of your basic rights, like privacy, removed. Like there wasn't even a door on the bathroom (and at least in my case, the staff was mostly male whereas I'm female so that was highly discomforting). I'd be surprised if you manage to get even 1000 steps a day since you're pretty much confined to your room all day. Sleep is no relief because they repeatedly shine a bright light in your room throughout the night. Anything and everything that could possibly be used to harm yourself is either unavailable to you altogether or kept under guard.

Overall, would not recommend.

Thanks for the insight. Definitely does not sound like it helps.