I have found that there is plenty of stigma when it comes to the wider world’s perception of mental health hospitals and the psychiatric ward ... and only one room in a house was listed as ...

a registered nurse on a psych ward in New York told Newsweek. "People in straitjackets in a small room with padded walls, and patients screaming all day and night, barred windows. All that's shown ...

“It’s not home, it’s a psych ... the room overlooking UC Berkeley’s campus. I’d stayed in that room for three weeks in August, the time the government designated me a ward of the state.

This is what the psych ward looks like: A small building off the interstate, brick, and unobtrusive. The reception room is covered in plush blue. An admissions office spurs off to one side ...