Has anyone ever spent time in seclusion? what was the experiance like? how did you feel? how long were you in seclusion? how were you treated?

Question: Does anyone think that seculsion rooms are still necessary? There has been alot of evidence based practice on the use of seclusion rooms over in the UK, and the concensus over there is that other measures can and are being utilized to reduce the amount if not elimate the using of seclusion rooms. Any comments on what other measures can be done to eliminate the use of seclusion rooms here in North America?

As I read, I hear not only the voices of wanting to find some reasoning behind the 'why', but I also hear the voices of the ones who have been there. I have been there, I have seen those walls, (not there exactly) but the colours were of the time, for colour therapy is a new ideology, and was not practiced then for paitent therapy. Even now in a facility that I have worked at, the walls are all blue, and bare. It is really quite sad to think why we use these rooms, for utimatly who does it benifit? NOT the patients.