In this article, I use autoethnography to examine time spent on an acute psychiatric ward during the COVID-19 lockdown. I employ the device of “communitas in crisis” to emphasize the precarious nature of this experience and the extent to which, for myself at least, informal social interactions with fellow patients and “communitas” were significant features of my hospital experience and subsequent discharge. I suggest that a lack of emphasis on inpatient to inpatient relationships in the recovery literature is an omission and a reflection of psychiatry’s authority struggles with both service users and professionals, along with a general perception of psychosis as individual rather than as a socially constructed phenomenon. I also suggest that, especially in the wake of greater social distancing, mental health and social services should safeguard against psychological and social isolation by creating more spaces for struggling people to interact without fear or prejudice.

在本文中，我使用自体民族志来检查 COVID-19 封锁期间在急性精神科病房度过的时间。我使用“危机中的社区”这一手段来强调这种经历的不稳定性质，以及至少对我自己而言，与其他患者和“社区”的非正式社交互动在多大程度上是我的住院经历和随后出院的重要特征。我认为，在康复文献中缺乏对住院患者与住院患者关系的重视是一种遗漏，反映了精神病学与服务使用者和专业人员之间的权威斗争，以及对精神病作为个体而不是社会建构现象的普遍看法。我还建议，特别是在社会距离扩大之后，心理健康和社会服务应该为陷入困境的人们创造更多的空间，让他们在没有恐惧或偏见的情况下进行互动，从而防止心理和社会孤立。