The effectiveness of hospitalization is often reliant on the quality of care offered.. Which at the end of the day tends to depend on how advanced and well funded the local mental health services are.

Hospitalization is one of the most expensive services offered, and to my knowledge, many places focus on "stabilizing" patients to get them back out as fast as possible, & putting them on some form of medication in the hopes that it'll work.

I think this is a mistake from every perspective. Taking the time with each patient, to my knowledge, changing environment and forming meaningful habits, monitoring effects of medication, & testing different kinds of therapy, is the way these things should be done. Not every mental illness responds the same to every treatment, but providers tend to gravitate towards "cheaper" solutions like drugs & exercise, while shunning more costly ones like psychotherapy.

Both have merit, but different people respond to different types. Part of the issue is that the mentally ill, as a demographic, aren't historically amazing at advocating for ourselves. This is sad.

Instead, we end up getting dragged through some sort of gauntlet of experimental and/or halfassed treatments, while being made to pay good money for the privilege of essentially being lab rats. I honestly think big pharma should be footing the bill for testing all their new shit on people like us.