I did a sort of IOP the year anniversary after going through the trauma with the home care person & the year after my mother's death from the cancer. I was having all sorts of flash backs but seriously didn't want to be IP & I guess my pdoc thought this would be an alternative. Only problem, the hospital was over 1 hour drive from my home where I lived in Ca. That first day on the drive home I got into 2 rear-end accidents 30 minutes apart in all the Calif traffic. Depersonalizing was one of the things that happened to me after going through the trauma. I was so messed up that I ended up at that point having my H drive us down to where my mother's house was & the van from the IOP would come & pick me up every day. I struggles even going back into my mother's houses which was the house I grew up in after going through the trauma there.....so the whole experience wasn't good & the IOP really wasn't a benifit.....in reality, IP probably would have been better considering I was really in another world at that point & still struggling with the anorexia from the year before also......I don't even remember how long I went to the IOP....but that time it wasn't a worthwhile experience.

I had been other times as a transition out if IP.....when my mother was alive....I ended up living with her while doing the IOP......& that was a good thing because of some abuse that was going on in my marriage, going home wasn't possible either.

It's mostly different groups however....didn't have any real therapy from the experiences I had....I can't even remember what the groups were TBH......guess it's been so many years ago for the first times & this last time I was so zoned out....the only thing I remember was this older man who had been in WWII pilot who was dealing with dementia would talk to us as if he were still in the war.....it was quite interesting what he had gone through....but strange that I would remember more about him than my own experience at the time....goes to show how much of me was in some other place.