I was hospitalized for 7 weeks last summer. The one thing I swore I'd never do was go for psych admittance, since that tends to follow you around for ever. But I was a mess last year, newly sober, worst depression of my life, not eating properly, and seriously suicidal. I went in voluntary. It turned out to be one of the best things I ever did for myself. It helped that my psychiatrist is the clinical director of the ward / program I was on, so I saw her every day. We did meds adjustments and I had group therapy of some sort every day, and it was good to be able to jsut focus on me and getting healthy. Then once I was discharged i was in an 8 week follow up program where I went back for group therapy 3-4 days a week. It literally saved my life, and put my life on a much better track.

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