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[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Over the past few years they've become synonymous with being admitted to a mental health ward.

Never heard or seen this. Where did that get synonymous?

[-] OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a usa thing. Their psychiatric wards apparently also provide like actual therapy and psychiatric help too, from what I've read.

I don't know what it's like elsewhere but in the UK, psychiatric wards are filthy, underfunded holding pens run by the dregs of the nhs. And you get no help, just held till they arbitrarily decide if you're 'safe to be released' or not. You don't get socks here, you get ptsd.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Inpatient psych wards are kind of all over the place in the US. However, as someone in the American medical field, I can confirm the grippy socks are definitely a thing.

Generally speaking, inpatient psych facilities here are also filthy, underfunded holding pens run by the dregs of the medical community. Not all, and a lot of people.over here get into medicine specifically for psych but they're outnumbered by the burnt out shitbirds who are just collecting a paycheck. You also get no/the wrong help here and they hold you for a minimum 72 hrs or until you're no longer "a threat to yourself/others". It's often traumatic and life ruining because not only aren't you helped, you're thrown out on the street in debt and possibly out of a job because you missed 3 days of work, making your life measurably worse at the end than it was at the beginning of your admission

[-] urinnerchild87@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

No idea when it picked up, but my younger sibling refers to them as "grippy sock vacations"

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