Question by teapot.?: URGENT! what’s it like on an adolescent psychiatric unit?
I’m being referred to an adolescent psychiatric unit next week – I’m really nervous and upset, I am not being sectioned so I don’t know if that makes any difference?! Please any advice, experience or anything would be greatly aprreciated.

Thank you so much :) x

Best answer:

Answer by ???Š ???ŠI?? Aboard Clarity
It’s just like any other ward, except

sometimes the staff have plastic

perspex between clients and staff.

Because some folk whom are

very sick & plain fed up & out of control.

Need extra care so they don’t hurt any body.

Or them self.

Best Wishes.

Mars Mission.

Answer by khole12
I have never been to a psych unit but I have been in 5 or 6 hospital (stroke, severe) so it’s ok, the worst thing for me was the needles for blood tests and i.v. tubing because they had to attach a permanent i.v. to me. My arm was poked full of holes! They serve you meals and they do medical tests on you.

Mental health treatment in Scotland
Indeed, while child and adolescent unit psychiatric hospital admissions were recorded as being 19.2 per 100,000 in 2011-12, this had risen to 21.2 per 100,000 in 2012-13. Mr Hume called for more to be done to curb the personal, social and economic …
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