This could be problematic for those patients who end up in a mental hospital without being mentally ill. This is similar to the situation in jail and prison. The longer inmates spend in prison, the more likely they are to adapt to and learn the prison subculture, which can lead them to reoffend once released. In both environments they are given everything, there is a rigid schedule, there is no privacy, and the purpose of hospitalization or prison is to "cure" the mentally ill or prisoner, but most Sometimes this doesn't happen.