padded room
Soft-walled confinement
A padded room is a room with soft walls, floor, and sometimes ceiling, designed to prevent self-injury.
Found in psychiatric facilities and detention centers, it confines people who might harm themselves or others.
The term often appears figuratively to suggest someone belongs in a mental institution: Keep talking like that and they'll put you in a padded room.
- asylumShelter from persecution
- mental hospitalPsychiatric inpatient facility
- straitjacketGarment restricting arm movement
- cushionedMade softer or gentler
- isolationComplete separation from others
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- confinementcell, cage, prison, jail, imprisonment
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- quiet spaceslibrary, sanctuary, chapel, soundproof booth, recording booth
- restraintshandcuffs, shackles, chains, ropes, cuffs
- sensory lossblindness, deafness, numbness, anosmia, hearing loss
padded roomtorture chamber
Space for inflicting suffering
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Unenclosed outdoor space
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Organized withdrawal for mindfulness
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