Or would it just make things worse like everything else treatment related? I've gone before and have had bad experiences, but I feel completely stuck. I can barely eat without a meltdown or shower, I can't sleep. No one (family, friends, doc, counselor) is pushing me to go because I haven't overtly threatened to kill myself or hurt anyone else. I just want a promise that this is going to be over soon.

I'm also really hesitant to go because it's going to be loud and I'm extremely sensitive to noise right now.

[Victoria'smom]

What about Partial hospitalization, Intensive Outpatient, group therapy or more therapy sessions? I've been to the hospital because I was psychotic I wasn't a danger to myself or others. I was there for 3 days that time. I don't have the resources others have. I only have access to my pdoc during appointment and they don't have a cancellation list. So if I need a med change sooner then 4 months I have to use the hospital.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

The hospital has always helped me. I get sound sensitive so I take ear plugs and they always let me have them. They also have white noise machines they'll loan out which helps as well. I tell everyone on staff repeatedly that I'm noise sensitive so they are aware that I'm trying to participate but it's hard and tell the others in group that I can't be super social but would love to play cards in my room or whatever if they'd like quiet time too. I also usually sit in the back in group so I can leave if it is too loud. I tell the group leader this and all but one were fine with it and the one who wasn't was being a huge jerk (another patient verified this).

I wouldn't have made it through some of my episodes without the safety and fast med adjustments of the hospital.

I'm in PHP but I don't like it it because
1) I'm paranoid the guy that picks me up isn't going to take me to the place he should
2) It's super loud there
3) Hasn't been helpful at all, granted it's only been two days but still I hate that I have no one from 7pm to 11am to make sure I'm safe
4) I'm scared of the meds the doc prescribes me and I haven't been able to start them yet because my blood work isn't ready and now I've lost the prescription.
These aren't really things that would make the hospital seem any better, but so far I hate PHP.

[Victoria'smom]

1) can someone you know bring you?
2) can you bring noise cancelling headphones?
3) If you can't grantee your safety then you should go to the hospital.
4) Tell them tomorrow that you lost your prescription. What about new meds scare you?

[gina_re]

From my experience, if you think you have to go, then it's time to go.

[Pookyl]

I have found hospitalisation to be of great help. It’s the quickest way to get well.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

It also helped me when I went on clozapine because they could go up on the dose faster and blood draws were not a problem. I know that's been as struggle for you.

[Asteya]

What do you have to lose then?? Hoping for the best for you 🙏

[hexacoda]

It helped me but I needed something fast because I was psychotic. It was good to have encouragement to stick to routines, and I needed meds that were fast activating.

[pirilin]

You hafta weight pros and cons. If you really need to go, be prepared for all kinds of viruses and infection.

[Unrigged64072835]

If you're having problems doing the Activities of Daily Living (sleeping, eating, keeping clean, etc.) you should go.

There is only one place I will go to because it's halfway decent. The others are crap. But I'm there to stabilize on meds, not be a social butterfly or win a beauty contest.

[Blueberrybook]

Honestly, I think it depends on the hospital and the staff you end up with. Once, I was hospitalized in a crisis center (for not sleeping), and it was a good experience. They still misdiagnosed me with major depression though they did get the panic & anxiety right and got me sleeping again. The doctors were good. The staff was good. There were maybe around 20 patients, tops. It wasn't bad.

Now, the hospital itself...(particularly if you have to be hospitalized in a large city and don't have insurance or a lot of money) can SUCK. I got put in the worst psych ward in Houston, TX. Place stank of urine, men coming onto me all the time, pdoc who wouldn't listen, shots to knock you out if you so much as disagreed with them. Crazy thing too...apparently, I could check myself in, but I could only check myself out with the doctor's say-so. I finally just started agreeing with everything the crazy pdoc said to get myself out of there...they must have had me on 15 medications...it was God-awful. However, I DID need the break from work (it happened that I was the unintended victim of a shooting, which caused me severe panic attacks). I wasn't shot, but I lived in a rough part of town; the guy aimed for the glass patio door of the apartment below me and missed and shot out my glass balcony door, the bullet wedging in a book in a bookshelf across my living room. This happened in the middle of the night. Thankfully, I was in bed because I would have surely been shot had I been in my living room. In hindsight, I probably should have just taken some time off from grad school and gone to stay with one of my grandmothers or my sister (who was still in college in a much safer town).