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#1
Apr 25, 2012, 09:21 AM
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At what point did u decide you needed to check yourself in? What was the deciding factor?
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Apr 25, 2012, 09:09 PM
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When thoughts about suicide change to urges to do it. The urges continue until it becomes irresistible.... I go in.
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Apr 25, 2012, 10:40 PM
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The psych ER said they wanted me to go. I didn't want to do I refused. I really wasn't thinking straight. They should've made me.
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Apr 26, 2012, 01:54 AM
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When my suicidal thoughts and urges start to turn into definite plans and preparations. If I went in every time I thought about suicide I'd never be out, but when I start to make firm plans and start writing the letters etc. it's time to go in. I've also been threatened twice in the past two weeks of intensive outpatient with involuntary admission because of suicidal urges and cutting but managed to talk my way out both times. Time will tell whether that was a good idea.
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Apr 26, 2012, 02:21 AM
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When I get so depressed I'm no longer responding to my meds, and need a rapid med change. (2004)
When I am hurting myself. I don't get suicidal, but I do get "scratchicidal" and used to like to cut. My last cut needed 9 stitches. (1990) I'd rather put myself in the hospital than go thru that again.
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#6
Apr 26, 2012, 10:59 AM
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And then there is mania also, the only time I've been inpatient has been while I was manic or mixed, mostly on the manic side rather than depression. I know it's time when I can no longer function at home and the med changes and increases are not working. When I am pacing for 17 hours a day and my thoughts are only fractions of thoughts because they are moving that fast. Then it's time to go in for me.
Which mood are you dealing with? And what symptoms are you dealing with ? |
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#7
Apr 26, 2012, 12:08 PM
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I typically go in when my family takes me in. I hate to admit that but I can get so out of it off the wall that I have to get baked acted in. Lol
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Apr 26, 2012, 12:42 PM
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I've never quite gone voluntarily so I would say when my pdoc/T recommends it.
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#9
Apr 26, 2012, 03:21 PM
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Anika - I have never been. Ever. Recently my bp has been so out of control (manic) that there have been a couple of near breaking points that I actually started wondering this. I have never been so bad that I even thought that was an option. Recently I have been in a place considering it or thinking if one more shoe drops I need to go somewhere. Although I have no clue what it entails really. I just know I have been to the breaking pout where I know I'm acting crazy and irrational but I have lost all ability to real it in. Coping is gone. And escalation is eminent. I'm ok right now. My mania is in check for a few days now. Who knows how long that will be the case though?
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#10
Apr 26, 2012, 03:34 PM
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Well if the other shoe does drop, or you feel you are really not functioning, it's not getting better, or in any way you are in danger then it might be a good time to go. Many times I have left my mania way to long, the longer it goes the harrder it can be to get control over it. You do not have to be in danger to go, if you have stopped functioning that is also a good reason.
The staff was very nice to me and really helped me out. They made sure I was sleeping and resting and of coarse I was given a lot of meds. I really dont like taking a lot of meds but at those points sometimes it's necessary to get the mania brought down. I wouldn't have been able to do that at home. I was able to have day passes near the end of my stay and they made sure I was stable enough when I returned home. Overall it was not a bad experience. Sometimes we need that extra help to get better. I assume you are a mother from your name, I am a mother too, so functioning kinda has to happen so I can take care of my children. Also tho they did put me on a lot of meds, after I was stabilized for a while I was able to get off them and back to my basic meds. It was kind of interesting at the hospital, most of the patients were experiencing depression so were encouraged to get up early, get dressed and get going. I was manic so I was encouraged to slow down, sleep, rest, eat. I was nervous at first but it was really the best choice. |
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#11
Apr 26, 2012, 05:23 PM
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My therapist tells me when I don't feel safe. For me that's usually means going to the drug store and shopping for supplies.
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