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I know this will be burried, but I'm hoping at least OP sees this. It's something that's been bugging me for a while.

Earlier this year I had a suicidal episode and was given a 5150 by the cops who answered my parents call. I was taken to a 'psychiatric hospital' to spend the next 72 hours. I honestly consider that place to be hell. I was kept in a glorified waiting room while the staff looked for an open bed in either their actual facilities, or another hospital. There were no beds, only couches, one bathroom that did not lock, the lights were never turned off, and all the doors were locked and guarded. Despite me telling the nurse in my entrance questionnaire the medicines that I was taking, in my entire stay I did not get any medication, leaving me with severe withdrawal. I slept on one of the couches, wearing a hospital gown and socks, and nothing else, since they had taken my clothes when I was admitted. The room had about 15 patients and 1 guard, and a nurses station filled with indifferent people who made it clear that they did not care about anything. I was not given a psychiatric exam, or any diagnostic tests, so that by the end of the three days, they decided to extend my 5150 to a 5250 since they did not try to figure out anything about my situation. Some of the people I was sleeping next to were violent, or loud, or just plain mean. On my second night, after a phone call with my dad, I curled up in one of the bathrooms to cry in privacy. A nurse opened the door to bring in another patient who had shit himself and smeared it all over the walls, and I was shooed out without any follow up to how I was doing mentally.

I was transferred to another facility and all the patients there, when asked, agreed that the place I had been had a reputation for awful work. So my question is, how is this allowed? Why was someone like me, in a first offense with suicidal ideations, thrown into something like a prison with people who could've been really dangerous to be around? The only thing I learned from that experience is to not tell people when I'm feeling like that again, because I still have nightmares about going back, or worse, waking up there and realizing I never got out.

Hey Jordan, I’m an aspiring film student, and a fan of the horror genre, so I’m really excited for the release of Get Out. My question is, what is the message you are trying to convey with this movie? I have to admit, the ads made me a bit uncomfortable as it seems to be saying that white people are trying to indoctrinate black people into a homogenous culture here in the US, and the images of white people having black servants and attacking a black man come off as a little…let’s say ham-handed in this case. I understand if this is not what the movie is really about, that’s just how I’ve interpreted it from the trailers. Any light you can shed on that would be appreciated, thanks. Also, if you could be a tree, what type of tree would you be?