Hello,

My psychiatrist wants me to go into an inpatient treatment facility so that we can rid my body of current meds (they can have some really nasty withdrawl effects!!!) and then start me on something which should work much better (fingers crossed). I've had so many problems with meds. They work and then STOP.

He said I should expect to be in for a total of five days. This scares the bee-jeebers out of me. Can someone tell me what I should expect? The handout I received from the facility, well frankly - it made me feel like a common criminal. I'm okay with the no television in your room, no smoking (I don't anyway) and that the floors for the facility are locked (but you are not locked in your room). I have questions on if I'm sharing a room with someone (I snore - so this embarasses me), if I can bring my mp3 player - cause I can't imagine not having music for five days.....and then...I read about you all talking about attending "group" therapy. Which I don't see anything specific to that on my papers (but who knows).

I'm not suicidal - the psychiatrist and his staff tell me that when they do major med switches, they always hospitalize folks. This is ALL so new to me so I just want to know if this sounds normal to others???

SO - any thoughts? comments?