I’ve been a patient in these facilities before. There are people who can get very violent because they are hallucinating or confused. They will hurt themselves and the staff who tries to help them can get injured so they are actually monitored by someone every minute even when sedated until they aren’t a fall hazard or self harm. when admitted, patients aren’t controlled so they have behavioral episodes, then they are restrained and given neuroleptics/benzo. There is no hypnotism, it is tranquilization and that’s it. I’ve seen people tranquilized 6pm, wake up 11am, and they make it to about 4pm before they start getting agitated.

There is a very small window for therapy and practice until they have to be injected again or given medication to take. It takes many days for dosages to be correctly adjusted and weeks for certain people to balance out the right medical chemistry. Everyone has something different going on and it gets very complicated when people are coming off of narcotics or whatever addiction and dietary need.

I’ve seen people asleep for a whole week, waking only for food and then back to sleep. Doctors get people balanced out to not hurt themselves and they have to go to group to reacclimatize to life. The group therapy is very intuitive cognitive therapy that helps people realize their triggers and manage boundaries and rhythm. Some people never go back to normal, but eventually are released as long as they manage properly or get transferred out. There are social workers and a whole slew of doctors that check you. When you are on these antipsychotics or stuff like lorazepam or haloperidol you basically timetravel. You zone off and wake up like one minute went past. Feels like inception. You have the right to refuse medication and can’t be held over certain amount of days if you are not a risk to yourself or others.