If someone is seriously a danger to other people they will be on a more secure section. That's how it works.

I did have a roommate the first half of my most recent stay (a couple of weekends ago) she was on consant observation. Not beause she was dangerous but she got confused easily (not sure why) and would wander off and into patients rooms or whatnot. It was very hard for me to be under observation half the time so I advocated strongly to everyone who would listen that I needed a private room. It feel through twice (they moved her -- wich made sense and then anotehr person needed it more than me) but I got it.

As much as you want to hide until your doctor's appointment that's not a safe thing to do. Going into the hospital is a good thing - they can make changes to your meds NOW instead of waiting. They are usually willing to try changes faster because they can monitor you.

I don't know what your hopsital is like but in mine if you opted to stay in your room all the time that was okay. They encouraged you to go to groups but if it was too much it was too much.

It was nice to go there and have the structure. I didn't have to worry about most things. I didn't think I really needed to be there at first but I trusted the doctors and they were right. Plus I was able to talkt o a social worker and find out about options that I didn't know existed and they took care of calling the insurance, they would have called my work for me. But I didn't need them to do that.

Let me say that it's okay for you to tell your doctors and the ones at the hospital (and the nurses and who ever else) that you have anxiety about being there. That you are anxious about havinga roommate that might hurt you.

The first room I was in didn't have a lip around the shower and water got on the floor, it kept making me anxious and I finally told someone and they showed me these mats they use. Another time I confided to an activities therapist I was having a lot of anxiety abotu not knowing what was going to happen (becuase I was admitted the Saturday before Memorial Day I didn't see the regular doctor or social worker until Tuesday). So he got a schedule they had ap rinted out and he marked out blocks of time he thought I'd meet with people. The different groups were on there and so we went through them and I circled the ones I wanted to go to. I kept it with me and when I got anxious I just looked at it and knew that 1) there was a plan of sorts and 2) someone was there to help me.