I'm sure every hospital is different, but....my experience with inpatient treatment was not great. I think it's good in a crisis situation if you really need to stabilize medications because they can change your meds daily and ramp up your doses quicker. I saw a pdoc everyday for medication adjustment.

As far a therapy, there was no counseling or therapy one on one in the hospital I was at. None at all. The only "therapy" was in the form of group lectures where they talked about how to deal with your illness or life skills and things like that. There was no chance to talk to a counselor about your own personal issues.

Also, I thought it was very, very boring as there was nothing to do. Your freedom was severely limited and there were restrictions on things like when you went to sleep, woke up, and went to the bathroom. Also, I could never sleep well because the beds were awful, there were roomates to deal with, I wasn't in my regular environment. And I couldn't get up and do the things I normally do when I can't sleep because they had rules about being up at night.

I will never, ever do inpatient again no matter how bad things get. But, your situation may be entirely different. I would get as much info. about the daily schedule and service you'd receive before I'd commit (no pun intended) to anything if I were you. Good luck.