Hi everyone. I would get your attention about mental health hospitals. I think it is an important topic because its conditions matter in terms of human rights.
People go to hospitals and visit doctors when they think there is something wrong with their body, experience pain in internal organs, and some emergency situations such as car accidents, natural disasters. People have various treatments for types of illnesses and disease severity. Even though using the term physical hospital is awkward, there are several terms to express what a mental hospital is. Mental institution, mental health hospital, and psychiatric hospital terms are similar. They are usually concerned in the same way. Actually, they have mostly common functions and outcomes. Also, exchanging language and translation from English might cause meaning differences. The APA describes a mental institution as “A treatment-oriented facility in which patients with the severe psychological disorder are provided with supervised general care and therapy by trained psychologists and psychiatrists as well as auxiliary staff.” (APA). However, the APA explains, that a psychiatric hospital is “a public or private institution providing inpatient treatment to individuals with mental disorders. Also called the mental hospital.” (APA). According to the description, it can be understood that it is a hospital for inpatients with different long stays.
Unfortunately, there is alot of stigma associated with Mental institutions. In many cultures, it is still a taboo. When you talk about being in therapy or taking medications for mental health. Most people just assume you have gone mad.
In Urdu: we have a saying for mental illness:" Yeah to pagal hai". It means he/she is insane.
Thank you, for letting us know about language differences.