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Not sure where you are nation-wise, but I was in something (in the US) that sounds like an IOP, it was called Day Treatment. It was 5 days a week/3 hours a day for 2 months for me and then 3/week for 1 month. I went for the max time; some went for less overall time and fewer days a week. For most, they had their days cut back over time as T's saw them doing better.
It was incredible. Less "therapy"--but group therapy, than community. It was fun. We all had a blast. It was light, and I think they try to keep it less intense as far as the therapy part goes to help people feel better in other ways. Learn and gain structure. Healthy living. They frowned on super intense, intimate sharing about trauma b/c they didn't want to trigger other people, and that wasn't the emphasis.
I'm very glad I did it--last spring and summer.
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out of my mind, left behind
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