I have no experience with being hospitalized as a minor. I’d say the experience is much different especially since it is your parents or guardian that hospitalizes you. Of course in this manner one would feel forced because the decision is up to the guardian. I’d think as a child staying in the hospital would be rather overwhelming. You’re asked to recognize the authority of total strangers and trust them. I think I’d have a hard time with that. I have no idea what its like to be a child in a psych ward but if I had to guess, I think personally I’d be a tad bit uncomfortable. My experiences have been as an adult where I signed myself in willingly. That’s the key to this entry. It is written from the perspective of an adult who signed herself into a psych ward willingly.