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Originally Posted by Helen Back
Hi.
If your health is not okay then you can't do anything else. True? Okay, so let's start by being honest with the psychiatrist by telling him your thinking is delusional and you're having urges to self-harm. Yes, I believe you do need to be inpatient. However, being inpatient is not a "trap," but a great place to receive resources. Make sure you see the social worker and line up a plan for what you're going to do after you leave the hospital. You'll need a psychiatrist on the outside to prescribe meds, and maybe the social worker can help line you up with a therapist. Be honest with them, and take advantage of all the resources the hospital offers.
Taking care of your health is priority #1.
I hope this helps.
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I don't want to go inpatient. Missing choir is impossible to catch up on. I'm worried about school and messing up finical aid. The school therapist said teachers have to let me make up homework but the last time I went to the hospital, they put me in the intensive psychiatric care unit. It was terrifying. That experience makes me refuse that hospital unless the next one I'm about to talk about is full. The other one is new. Not open a full 3 years. I was born at that hospital. They added a ward. They have cameras pointing into every patient bedroom. That's the hospital I would go to but I can't stand that thought. It's just all a perfect way to track my every movement so they know when to get me when no one is looking. Those few I open up to, I don't agree it's a delusion it's a trap. But of course, no one believes me. I'm "crazy". I don't want to do inpatient.