Thanks everyone for your support - this website is great! it has really been helping...

No, I've never been hospitalized. Avoided it like the plague -lied to people to avoid it, and then when my G.P. wanted to hospitalize me ('form me' as she put it), I convinced her not to (told her a friend was coming to help - which she was). I know I should have been...

Then when my psychiatrist and psychologist wanted to do the same, I convinced them not to. Avoided certain statements so that I wouldn't be locked up.

what's it like to be in hospital? I have images from movies... Scares the hell out of me.