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Originally Posted by ~Christina
I agree with Anne ... there are very very few little long term inpatient facilities. Maybe a few weeks for your ED and the rest would be out patient.
If your mood has been up down and around maybe you need to see your Pdoc and a possible med change ( if you are currently taking any)
Back off talking to your BF about your moods.. Purge here type to get it out of your system.
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In college. I got switched form Seroquel to Abilify and maybe I need to give it more time but so far it feels like it's doing jack for my mood. I'm finally more mellow now, but today I was bouncing off the walls hyper and happy and decided on a whim that I was going to dye my hair - and proceeded to do so without having ever done that type of dye myself before. And the past few days I've been really depressed, other than yesterday. And I've been angry a lot, like aggressive angry.
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Originally Posted by Yoda
I have found inpatient beneficial at times. The first time I was in for five weeks.
Another option may be intensive outpatient group therapy where you go for four or five hours per day several times per week. But inpatient is better for adjusting meds.
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I really hope I don't have to go to inpatient *again*, it feels like I just got out. I hate being treated like I'm a freak who people need to step on eggshells around and who needs to be locked up. Intensive outpatient sounds fairly promising though. Maybe that's what my dad and stepmom will end up setting up assuming I can keep it together enough not to purge again until semester ends in two weeks.
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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
ED units are generally re-feed unit. Start taking your PRN meds to try to slow moods down. Call your pdoc tomorrow morning. Call the local hospitals for Out patient options. Right now your T isn't helpful. Is your meds being digested? (I know annoying question) Sign up for on-line classes just in case. They usually allow you to continue online classes in patient if they know about it upon entry. Therefore you aren't "eat up months" of time. Find out how to get incomplete in your classes. That way your current state does not effect your grades.
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My pdoc won't let me have his contact info. I contacted my T, though (I know, not all that helpful...).
Yeah, meds are digested. Never purged within a few hours of having taken meds. I only have two weeks, including finals, left, so I'm gonna try to tough it out until things get wore because even an incomplete or five couldn't fix my grades, which most are close to failing, but not quite. I still have a chance, I think.
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Originally Posted by wildflowerchild25
I agree, try to find a partial hospital or IOP program. I don't know about where you are but in NJ long term means state hospital and they are terrible places ( I know from experience that the adolescent one was!). I don't know what it is like there but most private hospitals won't keep you past a few weeks at the most. Try to get into partial or maybe do a shirt inpatient stay and then partial.
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There are long-term places. If I tried to go somewhere around where I go to college, I'd get shipped off to the adolecent ward of a place that still occasionally gives me nightmares. And then they wouldd try to force me into long term until my parents came down here and said hell no.
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Originally Posted by sugahorse1
Inpatient really is a good idea when you feel like you've hit rock bottom. It just gets you onto your feet again and started in the right direction
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I've never really shared that sentiment. My first stay was very traumatic, my second was also but for reasons that weren't the staff's fault.