{"quotes":[{"text":"When you go into the psych ward, you can’t have anything with you except colored pencils. You can’t have any electronics. If you have a drawstring on your pants, a belt, shoelaces, a hood, or extra-long fabric, your very clothes are ripped off your back. They search you with a metal detector like you’re a criminal, doing everything short of putting their hand up your butt. Before you go through those cold, automatic, barred doors, you know your life is not your own. This is especially true during the first week, while you stare at florescent lighting and wait impatiently for your meds to kick in. I wish I had remembered the psych ward prison cell a week ago. If I had, maybe I wouldn’t be wearing this hospital gown that they gave me until I can get more compliant clothes.","author":"Jacquelyn Nicole Davis","tags":["book","memoir","mental-health-stigma","painful-memories","psych-ward","psychology"],"id":82844,"author_id":"Jacquelyn+Nicole+Davis"},{"text":"By the time she awoke she couldn’t even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["adolescent-unit","amanda","awoke","building-122","death","deathlike","dream","dreams","group-2","hospital","jason-medina","kings-park","kings-park-psychiatric-center","kings-park-state-hospital","kppc","kpsh","nightmare","peace","psych-ward","sleep"],"id":130966,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"If the mind fits, shrink it.","author":"Brian Spellman","tags":["mental-health-professionals","mental-illness","psych-ward","psychiatry","psychology","seizures"],"id":149985,"author_id":"Brian+Spellman"},{"text":"You haven’t lived till you’ve played Scrabble in a psych ward.","author":"Artie Lange","tags":["bat-shit-crazy","craziness","crazy","drugs","good-drugs","heroine","insane","living","logy","psych-ward","psycho","scrabble"],"id":351580,"author_id":"Artie+Lange"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}