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Feb 23, 2010, 03:27 PM
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Member Since: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,611
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Did you ask the doctor why he thinks you need to be inpatient? For anxiety and depression one is usually started on meds and maybe therapy, unless they feel you are a danger to yourself or others. If you are feeling suicidal then you do need to be hospitalized, and the sooner you get help the better.
Could you have your husband speak with your doctor to reassure him that if you start getting help, you will improve? If your husband isn't supportive of you then perhaps talk with your family, make plans for them to take care of your kids or at least stop in to visit them as often as possible while you are gone. That's assuming you need to be gone, if you aren't a danger to yourself or others then I don't understand why they want to hospitalize you? 
If you are hospitalized they often have programs to get the family involved, so your husband and children or other family members can do that. Don't be embarrassed because you have a mental health issue, it's just like having a physical problem. You wouldn't be embarrassed (or worried about your husband taking the kids from you) if you had appendicitis or cancer or some other physical illness that required hospitalization.
Try fixing one thing at a time or you will overwhelm yourself. Start with YOU. If you aren't taking care of yourself then you won't be able to take care of your kids, or deal with money problems or potential marital problems.
As for finding in hospital treatment, I would think your doctor would have that information. Otherwise call your local mental health clinic or look in the phone book for NAMI (google it) and call them for help.
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