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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
My first thought was trying to work online or over the phone from home for a company like Apple. My second thought is you need your meds tweaked or another antipsychotic. The voices and thoughts should not be running your life. For me I know certain places are triggering to me enough to make me nervous about attending but not enough not to go. You need to be at least at that level. I would call your dr in the morning.
My last thought is do you have to work? Intensive outpatient or partial hospitalization maybe a good option for you while trying to get meds figured out.
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I always get so nervous when I need to go places that I feel like I literally can't go, and if I push myself to go, my voices are so loud the whole time I'm gone. I have been inpatiented in our local psych hospital when I was 10, and again when I was 12, and again when I was 17. Every time I walk in there, or drive by, it just brings back old memories and scares me off. When I was in elementary school I was put in the inpatient program for bipolar disorder and extreme separation anxiety, and I went completely manic when my parents left. I was kicking the counselors, screaming so loud that everyone in the adolescent wing could hear me, and they ended up putting me in a padded room in the dark, and I was in there for the entire afternoon screaming my head off. I'm scared that walking into any hospital like that will trigger me again because of those memories.