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I Have Been to a Mental Hospital

Holly Hill

By: holly5hell
Written on April 27th, 2012
talk about fear... i still dont know why they sent me there. i remember... they told me i was depressed and a threat to society... i was like WTF? me??.... i never thought this would happen to me. i was going crazy. they think ur crazy before u go there but... that place MAKES YOU CRAZY!!!  my roommate was a weirdo. lol she said she was going to kill me. but i didnt wanna leave because i jst wanted to be away from home. it's like juvenile u get use to it. and i did.
By: holly5hell
Age: 16-17
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  • delayedgratification
    delayedgratification

    I went to Holly Hill three times while in high school. I share similar feelings to you Jurassicjess. I was terrified, yet happy to be away from home and I often found myself wanting to go back just to escape from reality. I definitely did appreciate my life, freedom, family, friends.. everything so much more when I was discharged though. I guess I was kind of chasing that feeling- to feel like my life was worth while again, that it wasn't as terrible as I made it out to be. And it really wasn't. I was just a spoiled, rebellious teenager looking for attention. I feel awful for the way I treated my parents, friends, even the staff at Holly Hill. I think my three stays at HHH really helped me become the person I am today. It was a struggle, there is no denying that. I was diagnosed as "bipolar" and like every med under the sun- seroquil, lexapro, lithium, you name it! I was really resentful at first, because the meds made me feel like a zombie, I barely even remember the three years of my life I was on all that stuff. But now, however, I can honestly say that I am in a better place- or at least on my way- and that I never want to go back to there or any other mental hospital again. It really helped me get my act together. Not right away, but eventually the experience paid off. I wish there was some way I could go back just to offer some of the patients there now some support and to let them know that others have made it through what they are sure to be going through right now. I think it offer me some closer and I know it would have been really helpful to me as a patient to see someone who made it out on the "other side" alive and in a better place.

    Jan 20
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  • Jurassicjess
    Jurassicjess

    Holly hill in NC? Lol

    i went there for 14 days, they ended up telling my mom i was just a bad kid and had no mental issues and to sign over her rights so they could put me in a group home :( my mother didnt thank god.

    I also got sent to brynn marr near the beach the 2nd time because holly hill was full.

    It is deffinatly an experience that changes you, when i first got out i felt so aprrecciative of life but after a couple years went by i wanted to go back just to get away from reality. This happened to me at your age, im 21 now. Cant say things get better. . . .

    I dont mutilate anymore though but tbh i still feel as worthless as i ever did.

    Apr 30, 2012
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