[elevatedsoul]

so they are wanting me to go to a rehab program...
its so many days i dont know if i can handle it...

whats it like..?
will the other people give me problems..?

i have dual diagnosis i guess...
lot of problems...

just wanna be left alone... and not be hurt...

i wonder what the psychiatric care is like...

[childofchaos831]

I've never been to anything more than detox and a lot of psych IP stays... I do not do well being "locked up"... I know rehab isn't entirely like that... some of them take the patients to meetings, and they get to go outside and stuff, but the thought still doesn't sit right with me...

[elevatedsoul]

me too... i dont like going to place i be locked up...

the websites say they do psychiatric care too...
so i was thinking maybe it would be like a lower security type hospital stay...?

but 30-130 days is so long... i dont know if i could last a week much less a month or longer...

[splitimage]

Rehab doesn't have to be bad. I've been to IP rehab 2 times, the first time for 28 days, the second time for 2 weeks.

The first was a private psych / rehab hospital. We had shared rooms. Each day there was groups, but there was also a lot of free time, and also individual assignments to work on. We had to go to one AA meeting a day, and that was built into the schedule. It wasn't too restrictive. there were varying levels of passes. Some said you couldn't leave the building, then you could go outside but you couldn't leave hospital grounds, and then were full passes where you could leave the property. You did have to sign in and out of the ward though when you were leaving it - not that that was a big deal. We shared a room with one other person, which was ok, and all had meals together. People were pretty nice, and we were all bonded by the shared experience of trying to get sober.

The second was in a public psych hospital. It too wasn't too restrictive. The first week, you couldn't leave hospital grounds, the second you could get passes to leave for up to 4 hours in the evenings and weekend. It was a more intense program than the first one, with groups running almost all day. Again common meals. But in this one I had a private room / bathroom which was nice. I really liked it and didn't want to leave. There were AA meetings put on, but they were optional to attend and were open to everyone in the hospital, not just those of us in rehab.

The biggest thing I found hard to adjust to were the mandatory meal times. I was sort of used to eating at irregular times, when I felt hungry, but in both places we had to eat at designated times. The food was adequate. It was hospital food - not the greatest, but I've eaten worse.

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[elevatedsoul]

i guess what im wondering about most is the psychiatric care provided at places like these...

have anyone heard of places like these?
Men's Treatment Center | Rubicon
Virginia's Drug & Alcohol Abuse Treatment Center | Life Center of Galax

because i need the care... if it doesnt get treated then im just going to keep doing what i been doing...

is the care individual..? understanding...? safe...? i have cptsd and anxiety and stuff bad.... so i need to be safe...

[elevatedsoul]

im leaving on monday, wish me luck...

[whisperingskye]

Good luck with rehab, I hope it will help you.

I was in rehab once a few years ago. I saw the psychiatrist every few days, they also offered individual therapy as well as different groups throughout the day, it wasn't all addiction based.

It didn't work out for me though, I couldn't understand why I was there. I wasn't an addict, I just desperately needed help as I was suicidal, my parents decided that was the best option though. I got transferred to a secure hospital after a couple of weeks as I kept running away and they realised they couldn't keep me safe.