I spent a day with PSYCH WARD SURVIVORS

I spent a day with PSYCH WARD SURVIVORS to learn what really goes on behind the closed doors of a psychiatric facility. Sponsors ▸betterhelp.com/padilla to get 10% off your first month! ▸Go to dailyharvest.com and enter code PADILLA to get up to $40 off your first box!
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▸ Creator, Director, Writer, etc. - Anthony Padilla
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[@AnthonyPadilla]

NOTE: this is not the experience of ALL psych ward patients. many have found them pleasant and extremely beneficial. please watch the full video before jumping to any conclusions.

[@ShortHax]

The scary part about some mental hospitals isn’t even the patients, it’s the staff

[@xoviolet32]

that poem was INCREDIBLE. the delivery, the pacing, the rawness, wow.

[@tyleetomlinson935]

That woman deserves multiple awards for that poem

[@wall.daisies2952]

Anita's poem was extremely powerful. She's very talented!

[@BallinBunBun]

Imagine an SA victim becomes suicidal and goes to a mental hospital, just to be held down by multiple men after being stripped naked. You should never be stripped naked, that is a complete violation.

[@avasmith7530]

* Lauren’s camera quality is better than my eyes*

[@allthingstrishy]

Her poem is deep as hell and her emotions she put into it. On how a psych ward is actually build to make you crazy then help you

[@Maaalllzzzyyy]

I work in a hospital with a ward but we call it behavioral health. It’s scary because the staff has a rule to not trust the patient and I’ve talked to some of them, and one of them cried because she said she just wanted to go home. She said she was she came in for PPD but she felt fine after realizing she missed her hubby and new family. But no one will listen to her😔

[@kalinaxbiss7210]

“Because sometimes existing is exhausting” - Anthony Padillia 2021

[@eeetswaa]

I really appreciate how accepting Anthony is with everyone and he doesn't make them uncomfortable

[@vynguyen5543]

Her poem and the way she read it was exactly like how I experienced my psych ward admissions.

[@areyad.09]

Anita: she/her

[@estrellasjournal]

the poem was SOOO powerful. It should be in a movie or sth.

[@The_Abaddon_69]

People who strip SA victims down and strap them down like that deserve the death penalty like how does that help someone? You’re putting them through the same trauma they’re being admitted for, don’t take clothes off people! Like wtf

[@whoisdelaney090]

her poem was SO POWERFUL. literally i just got the strongest chills

[@kaiajefferson]

our mental health system is fucked and needs to be fixed. these people need help and to be heard not terrified and antagonized.

[@vxx3576]

Her poem really summed up my stay as well. If someone mentioned wanting to die they would immediately send you to the isolation room. Which was your mattress (that they dragged from your room) and one thin blanket on the floor. They didn’t even treat us like human beings, I felt like a dog being trained to be good.

[@nicolast8931]

jesus that poem gave me goosebumps. she's incredible

[@EmmQ34]

I ended up being severely traumatized from a mental hospital. The place that was supposed to help me ending up scarring me for life. To this day it makes it hard for me to ask for help out of fear they’ll send me back.