[franz kafka]

Just curious. For me it has been at least 10 times. Hopefully never again. I narrowly avoided it this week with the help of extra Zyprexa.

[Victoria'smom]

2x no plans on going back ever. I'll keep my mouth shut if I have to. Luckily I'm down to seeing pdoc 3x a year so it's less likely that I will be committed.

Originally Posted by franz kafka

Just curious. For me it has been at least 10 times. Hopefully never again. I narrowly avoided it this week with the help of extra Zyprexa.

Zyprexa also made me lose control. Be careful with that. I've been in that situation more times than I can recall, always leaving on my own free will. Never staying longer than expected.

Twice. Once for an attempt and once for intentions.

[Moreta]

7 times. Usually when psychotic.

[Unrigged64072835]

At least 11 times. Maybe more. Usually when I'm suicidal.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

Five times. It's been 2 years now which is good.

[pirilin]

Once, to operate on my appendix. Not bad for a mature male of 68 with 240 years of use.

[Northchild]

Physical: 2 times
Bipolar: 7 times

[~Christina]

8 or 9 Ip

[cool09]

15 times for depression. I can't stand the hospital. Can't get my diagnosis right. Avoid Johns Hopkins - no way I'll let a resident take charge of my health.

[wildflowerchild25]

I’ve lost track. Either 20 or 21. Including stays when I was a minor. It’s ********, I know. I don’t hang out there anymore. I only go now if I’m psychotic.

5 times, for psychosis once and mixed episodes 2 times. Suicidal in my teens 3 times. Haven't needed it in 2 yrs.

[Moose72]

4 times I think but one was the regular ER for

Possible trigger:

overdosing

[Blueberrybook]

Twice though my pdoc wanted it a couple more times, especially the time I had the worst mania I remember. Had a bad experience that 2nd hospitalization (that one was for panic/PTSD). First one was for not sleeping 3 days straight.

Then, 2 medical ones, one no biggie, giving birth to my daughter. Second medical one was this Valentines Day to Feb. 20. I had a perforated ulcer (never knew I had one to begin with). That required emergency surgery and recovery more pain than I ever thought existed, made childbirth look like a walk in the park. Still recovering from that latest hospitalization, which may be part of the reason I am falling back into depression. I was pulling out of depression right before that happened.

[SorryShaped]

4 in-patient.
2 out-/partial.
I've been in-patient for a total of almost 2.5 months of my life! Yikes.

[Wander]

Around 25 times in eight years. Mostly to protect me from suicide. It has been a crazy, unstable eight years with life circumstances, PTSD, useless or harmful clinicians, an Bipolar combining into a cluster f$@k. Haven’t been IP for six months now and hope to keep it that way. Over the eight years I have slowly been improving.

[hopeless2015]

I think it's been 5 times since 2015

[BeyondtheRainbow]

Originally Posted by SorryShaped

4 in-patient.
2 out-/partial.
I've been in-patient for a total of almost 2.5 months of my life! Yikes.

i think about that too. I'm at about 2.5 months too.

[Merlin]

Somewhere between 5 and 10 times, mostly for suicidal depression, once for a mixed mania.

[HALLIEBETH87]

17...

No judging please

[Tucson]

I have been hospitalized only one time 35 years ago. I have been very fortunate. I came close once again about maybe five years ago. I just barely held myself together. I could not leave my mother alone who was in the advanced stages of dementia.

I was in the hospital other times like for eye surgery. When I was young, my appendix burst and poisoned my insides. Back then there were no reliable drugs for this. I was so weak, I could not lift my head off of the pillow. I was listed as terminally ill so they can use experimental drugs on me. I was very lucky one worked.

[Guiness187055]

4x IP........

[HopeForChange]

Three times inpatient, one time partial. Luckily, I have been out of intensive treatment since 2007. Since then, it's just been regular outpatient appointments--I've gone to appointments more frequently when psychotic, manic, or severely depressed, but haven't needed intensive treatment. Here's hoping it stays that way, as I HATED the hospital. Two of my three stays were involuntary, complete with police escorts, so I would do anything to avoid being in that position again.

[Nammu]

I lost count...the thing is they kept giving my AD which made me worse even after the changed my diagnosis to BP....oh sure they combined them with mood stabilizers and AP but I can't take aADs at all or it throws me into a mixed episode which got me hospitalized. Got mad and said no more meds stayed out for years, not lovely years but my T told me I was manic and going to lose it if I didn't get medicated. They gave me trazodone for sleep and guess where I ended up? That's when I wised up that no AP ever in any combination and now take an AP and real sleep meds and have been hospital free since.