twice.....the first time was against my will when i went to a psychiatrist for a consult. she said i was manic and could not care for myself. it was a friday and the pdoc at the hospital agreed with me that it wasnt really necessary but since it was the weekend he couldnt do anything about it. come monday morn the evaluating T let me go.

the second time my T felt my mania was out of control and that i should be admitted to get my meds straightened out. as i highly respected T, i went and stayed for a week. it wasnt so bad going in voluntarily.

my current T said I needed to be hospitalized once during a mania that went on for over a month but he doesnt like to hospitalized people so he worked with pdoc to get me several appts to manage it outside of hospital. this worked so well we finally found med that made me stable.