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Um.

I am quite confused. Usually your p-doc arranges for a bed if you are not going in via ER. The bed is held for you for usually 1 day to get there. You go in under p-doc's admission.

Even when my p-doc did NOT have admitting privileges or Floor privileges, they worked with another p-doc that did. And it usually happens fairly quickly, like "Rip, you are %#@&#! up. You need to goto the hospital. The sooner the better." or "Rip, if you don't voluntarily goto the hospital tomorrow, p-doc will start an involuntarily hold."

Been there tons of times. Never heard of this.

Unless this is like the SAFE Program (for cutting) in Chicago, where they evaluate you for their program which is months long. But that is not a regular psych hospital.......


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Just thought I would re-iterate. Hospitals are not ONLY for psychotic people and IN FACT, most have several wards for the levels of illness.
Many people are severally depressed, many people have tried to commit suicide, some people are manic, some are schizophrenic, some are withdrawling from substances......but not everyone is psychotic.

I think people should not respond if they have not actually experienced being in a hospital setting, because many comments simply stigmatize it worse.

Also, going to the hospital is not a "break", or a "vacation." It is a serious matter and the people who are there are very sick. I NEVER saw it as a vacation. It was an opportunity to get some help and get better. By calling this "a break" or "a hospital" devalues the importance of the treatment. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. You don't go to get away. People are hurting and seriously ill.

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Since I actually started this post, I will comment here. Who said that going to the hospital was a joke? I beg to differ-- and I can comment because not only did I start this thread, but I have experience both working in, and staying in, a psychiatric hospital. While it is a serious matter and one goes there in the worst moments of pain, it is also an opportunity to get away and just let the hurting parts of yourself rest. Before you disagree, I did not say that it was a vacation, I did not say it is somewhere to go for fun, but it is an opportunity to deal with your issues while also not having to deal with everyone else in your life.

Unfortunately for me, the last week has proved only more exhausting. It really is ironic. I tried to go to the hospital because I am too %#@&#! exhausted-- and I ended up more exhausted in the process.

My pdoc offered me the support of "doing anything he can do" in order to help be get into the hospital that I tried to get into, or another hospital. I declined. I'm too tired to even do that.

I begin my new job on May 12th. I have to meet with human resources again next week. At this point, time has run out.

And Rip, in my state, your psychiatric cannnot arrange for a bed. Hospitals admissions can be done by pdoc referral, but ultimately they are based on the hopsital intake and, of course, whether or not the insurance is willing to pay. Some hospitals in the area are more willing than others. Unfortunately, one of the most willing hospitals, one that is willing to accept people like myself, is the hospital that I interned at-- so obviously that is out of the question.