/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15595199
they should be given soylent

2/4

>>15595199
Sounds comfy desu. What are you in there for anon?

3/4

I like the selections. Cozy af, have a nice stay.

4/4

>>15595216
I just got out today :)

>>15595223
did they rape your schizohole?

>>15595211
I was suicidal and checked myself in. First time doing an inpatient program. All the vegetables were overcooked to shit. I made honey mussy out of mustard packs and honey packs. The tendies (not pictured) were particularly good.

>>15595230
Fucking drama queen.

You must have gone to a fancy psyche ward, at my one the only thing to look forward to was the Sunday BBQ

>>15595238
It was nice. Because of covid I didn’t have a roommate. The soups were disgusting, the bread was always stale, but at least there was plenty of food. We’d have snack times twice a day too. This was an american hospital if you can’t already tell.

>>15595230
Good on you fren. Hope you're feeling better.

>>15595238
The only thing to really look forward to, is meds and smoke breaks.

>>15595199
i was in charge of serving dinner at a nursing home/care facility AMA

an angry greek man would do all the cooking and a guy who i guess got brain damaged in some kind of accident when he was a teenager would help me serve. the most exciting thing that happened while i worked there was when a large frozen ham fell off the top shelf in the freezer and concussed a member of the cleaning staff, and she drew workman's comp. it was widely suspected that she dropped the ham on herself as a way of committing insurance fraud.

the care facility was in a historic building (from around 1850 iirc) and had been an orphanage or "home for the friendless" for the first century it existed. several rooms were haunted, but i had amicable relationships with the ghosts. the sad ones were the children who had been punished by leaving them in the dark basement, i would leave them candy and toys and light candles for them and i felt they appreciated that.

the coolest thing i saw was when a resident was having a medical emergency (COPD patient, having problems associated with low O2 and panic attack) and the TV spontaneously turned on, tuned to a music channel that was playing a Frank Sinatra song she used to listen to with her friend/lover who had died 2-3 months before.

one guy was missing part of his head. what had happened was, he was driving drunk one night and collided head on with a car in the fog. his brother, dad and grandpa happened to be in that car. he couldn't deal with the guilt so he shot himself in the head but survived. the interesting part is that his family had emigrated from Luxembourg and even before that happened it was apparently known that they were cursed.

>>15595259
Thanks fren. Doing much better. I’ll respectfully try to stay on topic. I have more menus but I can’t find them in my paper bags of stuff I brought home.
>>15595270
No smoke breaks for our ward, couldn’t go outside or leave our locked-in area. Had a nice 24 mg nicotine patch every morning though. And a hell of a lot of xanax.

>>15595230
good job seeking assistance when you needed it. i hope you are feeling better. stick around for a while, the world is about to get more interesting i think. if you have some spare money, buy some XRP. there are some threads on /biz/ that can help you out.

>>15595319
were the professionals helpful? what kind of support did you receive?

>>15595211
"Noticing things".

>>15595320
Thanks man.
>>15595330
Yeah, very helpful. A couple of the nurses were cunts, though. I learned a ton about CBT/DBT and coping skills. It was rough because they would check on you every 15 min, 24/7.

>>15595319
>I’ll respectfully try to stay on topic
Its all good. Fuck jannies.
>>15595330
Would like to know this also. Been having some dark thoughts lately. I don't think I want to die, but I don't really want to live either.

>>15595270
We weren't technically allowed to smoke in our ward (I'm Australian) but it was only enforced as much as the nurses cared. If we could vape I'd have been okay but they took my vape when I went in.

>>15595199
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>>15595217
The menus look similar to a children hospital I stayed for awhile.

>>15595377
It was few years ago when that happened

What would happen if you gave them regular coffee?

I’ve been in the mental hospital 4 times and spent a total of about a month there. The food is terrible.

One time I was there, they had ice cream sandwiches in the kitchen freezer and you could eat all the damn ice cream sandwiches you wanted as long as a staff member would let you into the kitchen. I don’t remember eating any, but some people were wolfing down truly shocking amounts. The ice cream sandwiches were constantly running out and being refilled. During times when a staff member was fetching more ice cream sandwiches, people who wanted more ice cream sandwiches that very minute were so goddamn grouchy. Some people were eating more than 10 ice cream sandwiches a day, including one guy who was diabetic and seemed to constantly need insulin shots due to his shockingly carb and sugar loaded diet. He had come in after a suicide attempt and had a meth addiction. I’m guessing the combination of no meth and antipsychotics made him incredibly hungry.

I’m guessing the ice cream sandwiches caused too many problems, because there weren’t any ice cream sandwiches there last time I was there.

>>15595199
How did you get these pictures by the way? Did you take your menu home with you? No cameras or phones are allowed in my regular mental hospital.

What a fancy psyche ward. Mine had smoke breaks but outside of that you were completely stripped of clothes, shoes, shoelaces, any objects you might've had when you were checked in, phones, etc. Attendance to some group talk bullshit was mandatory if you didn't want your stay to get extended, and they'd check in on you every 15 minutes. There was a guy at my ward that kept calling everyone a nigger and when I told him to quit his shit he threatened my life, not that I really believed him. There was a guy who'd walk up and down the hallway reciting bible quotes to himself and talking about his duty, I think he was jewish but I'm not sure. There was a guy who got raped by some homeless crossdresser, and I befriended an actual sociopath who was playing some facade of being innocent.

It was truly terrifying, I was supposed to be there for 3 days but they held me for a week because I didn't want to take their medicine and wouldn't agree to be prescribed anti-depressants. I had to waiger my gun rights away to leave, but the sociopath told me a good loophole involving gun clubs.

Pic unrelated

>>15595448
Oh yeah, the food was total garbage by the way. School lunch nonsense but somehow worse.

You'd get access to the cafeteria the staff gets to use if you were on a "good behavior" list and attended the group talks.

>>15595420
Probably nothing. My mental hospital let you have up to 3 caffeinated drinks per day.

>>15595420
We were allowed one cup of regular coffee in the morning. I was on a no caffein diet because of an adverse reaction to stimulants.
>>15595359
You could always go to a PHP (partial hospitalization program) for maybe 3-5 hours per day. You will learn a lot of different ways to fend off those dark thoughts. It can really improve your quality of life, if you find a place that suits you. Don't give up. Things can be much better. And if you need to be inpatient for a week if you're feeling suicidal, you will receive a very safe and comforting place, most likely, where you can get help and support from doctors, nurses, case therapists, counselors, and especially the other patients themselves. I'm no expert on this though, just my experience. Good luck and don't forget you always have this option. Saved me for sure.

>>15595446
Yeah, I brought the menus home with me. No electronics of any kind were allowed on the floor. Even my electronic Yahtzee game didn't pass through security. I read a shit load though. It was good for me.
>>15595448
Sounds rough man. I got off pretty lucky I guess. All my co-retard schizo friends were really cool.

>>15595312
>driving drunk with your family in the car
seems like a self-inflicted curse to me

>>15595199
The place i was at had like restaurant menus where you pick dishes of pictures

>>15595448
Fuck. My mental hospital has had some characters, but only one person I felt unsafe around. She was a goddamn savage who would just go absolutely ballistic at times, screaming like you’ve never heard anyone scream before, shitting and pissing herself, and trying to kill anyone within reach. They kept a staff member with her at all times, but when she went off it’d take a number of psychiatric assistants and hospital security to restrain her. Hospital security tased her on a couple of occasions, and it didn’t do a damn thing to calm her down. The staff and social workers were spending a ton of time trying to get another facility in the state to take her, but weren’t able to do so while I was there because nobody else wanted her either, and the state facility that usually took everyone was full or something.

>>15595516
Only reason I know this is because a no-nonsense social worker gave her a very direct and detailed answer to her when she asked why she was still there during a group session. The unit I was in was generally intended as a stabilization unit, not a place to keep patients indefinitely.

cool thread
thanks op
hope you feel better

>>15595440
You sound like Holden Caulfield and are making me laff.

>>15595448
What is gun loophole? Since I voluntarily checked myself in does that make a difference?

>>15595565
The feds and most states don’t care if you’ve been in the mental hospital as long as you weren’t involuntarily committed. It has to be an actual court hearing with a judge type commitment though, not just one of those involuntary 72 hour holds.

>>15595565
In California at least, if you're involuntarily checked in you have to waiver your gun rights (for 5 years I believe) before you can get checked out. I believe if you refuse to sign they just keep you there until they're forced to let you go, which should be a month or so.

The loophole just involves joining a gun club and keeping your guns at the club. They can't do shit about it.

>>15595349
CBT cock and ball torture?

>>15595597
I wonder how many people do this and end up shooting themselves at the gun club.

>>15595211
do you have your own room or are you all sleeping in a large bunk room?

>>15595682
I’ve always had a roommate in a shared room.

>>15595685
well thats a good way to get murdered

>>15595320
Depression has nothing to do with the amount of money you own, poorfag. I've been rich since my 18th birthday, and yet here I am drinking myself to oblivion while browsing 4chan.

>>15595690
Very, very few of the people there are dangerous. Besides, none of the doors lock so it wouldn’t be much different with all single rooms.

>>15595836
id still sleep with one eye open. you fucking kidding me lol

>>15595543
accurate

>>15595878
Pussy

>>15595949
care at least a little bit about yourself

>>15595798
Remember every hardship you've ever endured. Think of what a waste it'd be, in spite of surviving this long, to die alone and miserable. Even if you feel you haven't really accomplished anything, look back and I bet you'll remember moments when you were proud of overcoming some awful circumstance. Think of sacrifices others may have made to ensure you lived on. Don't let it all be for nothing. You don't get this time back, anon.
>t. drank daily til blackout for ~10 years

>>15595199
i recall ordering off a similar menu there. our menu was much more limited however. still good and a fun time

That seems like an enormous amount of food. That's like two to three full meals just for breakfast.

I mean, I guess it makes sense to keep people full and busy with digestion naps, but my god, is everybody getting out obese?

>>15595213
Let me describe this meal before I fall asleep in my comfy ass bed. I was basically sleeping on a glorified wrestling mat with piss-proof pillows.

The salads were always withered Spring mix and contained a single cherry tomato and a single cucumber slice. The italian dressing was Kraft brand. The meatloaf was surprisingly good, but the gravy tasted either of nothing or was pure salt, which is surprising for a hospital. The “fries” were simply potato wedges cooked to a dry oblivion and with only paprika as the seasoning (which was also the case in the chicken caesar salad, fucking paprika on it for some reason). The rice was the parboiled, instant rice variety, although it usually tastes fine. The dinner roll, like all the bread I ate there, was stale as shit. The lemon bar was absolutely delicious. The sprite was served in styrofoam cups for safety and we weren’t allowed plastic knives. I lost about 8 pounds during my stay of two weeks, but it’s good because I’m fat.

I was hoping they'd have crazy bread.

>>15596088
It was, but a lot of it was shit so I ended up throwing half of it away every meal. It didn’t cost me anything, so why the fuck not, yunno?

>>15595798
Health is wealth

>>15596104
fucking kek

>>15595199
Holy shit seeing decaf only options takes me back. 10 years ago I broke up with my gf because I caught her cheating. I spent a couple weeks depressed and my family called 911 and told them I had weapons and was suicidal. Spent 5 days in the nut house trying to convince them that I was just depressed and not suicidal. By the end of the second day my caffeine withdrawal just felt like a motherfucker of a migraine. They wouldn't give me anything but 650mg Tylenol. Not even fucking extra strength. When the doctor asked me about the headaches the next day I explained that I had a serious caffeine habit and was withdrawing. He asked me how much caffeine I generally used in a day. I said between my 6 NOS a day habit and the caffeineated gum, hand lotion, and body wash, I was probably well over 1000mg a day. He felt so bad for me that when he got off shift he went and bought me a NOS. He said he thought it was bullshit that smokers got to feed their habits but caffeine was forbidden over it being a stimulant. He brought me one a day for the last few days I was there. The rest of the food was pretty ok. Other than their insistence that serving pork would offend some people and therefore necessitated only turkey bacon and sausage. That and the shitty weak decaf coffee

Mike is that you?

>>15595199
Is that blood you're using to highlight your choices?

>>15595199
So... all in all how much did this cost?

>>15596088
Some of the medications they prescribe for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia make you unfathomably hungry. When I tried adding an antipsychotic to my antidepressants I was constantly starving. It didn’t matter how much food I shoveled down my gullet, I just wanted more and more. Even worse was that I craved sugar and carbs. I normally don’t have much interest in sugar. I don’t like desserts, doughnuts, sugary cereal, or sweetened drinks. All of a sudden my ideal meal was gorging on doughnuts and soda until my stomach couldn’t take anymore. I put on over 20 pounds in less than a month. When my doctor learned about this at my next appointment she discontinued the antipsychotic and my appetite was soon back to normal.

>>15596169
How did a doctor not know about it?
Seems like it would be something they'd know about. I could go for some soda and doughnuts tho I won't lie about that.

>>15596164
$1,000/day wouldn’t be unusual, better have insurance!

>>15595448
>There was a guy at my ward that kept calling everyone a nigger and when I told him to quit his shit he threatened my life

>>15596177
I wasn’t in the hospital at the time I started it, and didn’t call the doctor to inform her about my ravenous hunger, so she didn’t know what was going on until my next appointment.