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Why past tense?

I was just wondering that. Zoombus (talk) 03:46, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clearly this was written by someone who has never been institutionalised. I have been thrown in asylums three times in the past few years, so I think I can shed some light on this subject (original research, sure, but true nonetheless). If an admin could please change all past tense to present, that would be a great start; I don't know who told the authors of this page that seclusion rooms (that's what they're called nowadays) aren't used anymore. If I could, I'd at the very least throw up some "dubious", "disputed" and "citation needed" tags here, since nearly the entire text is either false or misleading and has nothing to back it up. Now then, let's get started. The word "cushions" is slightly misleading; all the seclusions I've been put in have a rather hard foam lining the walls, floor and door. The ceiling didn't, but it was high enough that this was irrelevant. It does prevent self-harm to a certain extent, but during the months I spent put away I got quite creative. I was able to peel some of this foam off of the walls (mostly near the doors) with my teeth. At that point I could bash my head against the exposed hard wall. I could also swallow or inhale the foam, but that's not as relevant to correcting the statements in this article. Point is, it's not some kind of soft, fluffy material that keeps you safe like this article suggests; it's still pretty damn firm and, no matter its hardness, it's easy to get around it if you want to. I would say that over 99% of the time I or a fellow inmate was in seclusion it was involuntary, so the statement of compulsion is accurate. 10 ft by 8 ft sounds rather large to me, but I didn't go measuring the seclusion rooms with a tape measure or anything. The padding is most certainly NOT 4 inches deep; as I said, I peeled plenty of it off, it's 2 cm at the most. The walls are made of cement, not canvas or leather.The floor was not covered with leather. The padding wasn't cork crumbs, it was more of a foam which was smooth and continuous on the surface but usually porous on the inside. The door was invariably all steel. In addition to observation windows, there were either cameras or mirrors designed to allow vision of blind spots. One could be kept in such a cell for any amount of time, at the sole discretion of the clinicians. The longest I was ever held in one was several hours, the shortest about 2 minutes. Straitjackets are no longer used; the new method of restraint is four points, which entails using leather straps to bind the wrists and ankles, typically to a stretcher. 60 years after the introduction of psychotropics, the use of seclusion and restraints is still extremely common; I have never seen a psych ward without at least one seclusion room. Would someone please fix this horribly inaccurate article? 68.173.110.91 (talk) 08:09, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree definitely not past tense - although not one per ward. Called seclusion rooms where I've worked in the UK. Current terminology is also 'restrictive interventions'. Secretlondon (talk) 17:47, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What to do with this

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I was thinking of adding in information on seclusion but I wonder if we need two articles. Padded cells in history/culture, and something about seclusion/restraint in contemporary mental health settings. Secretlondon (talk) 19:05, 4 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

>Always?

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This is no hospital!

"A padded cell is a cell in a psychiatric hospital..." says the first sentence in the article, but is a padded cell always in a psychiatric hospital? Consider this picture. I took this at the Old Melbourne Gaol (37°48'28.2"S 144°57'55.1"E), a now disused holding facility for prisoners, and it would definitely seem to be a padded cell — but one that is definitely not in a psychiatric hospital. Perhaps somebody can think of a way of explaining this and incorporating this use of a padded cell into the article?

And you may use the photo, too, if you deem it useful. The faces have been blurred, lest anybody complain about being pictured in a padded cell...Kelisi (talk) 19:38, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Seclusion room has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 October 10 § Seclusion room until a consensus is reached. GnocchiFan (talk) 11:09, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Changing name of this article

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padded cell is not a common term they are almost always called seclusion rooms. and the act of being put in one is called seclusion. I think it would be better to change the name of the article to seclusion room. Epsteindidnotkillhimself smith (talk) 19:06, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 5 April 2024

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. (non-admin closure) microbiologyMarcus [petri dish·growths] 16:13, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Padded cellSeclusion room – seclusion room is a much more common tern than padded cell SSCTH (talk) 16:05, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.