[HALLIEBETH87]

Have y’all ever been on a 72 hr hold? I have a couple times. It scares me when I’m unwell bc my current t has threatened it twice over the years when I refused to go ip on my own. So scary .

[Victoria'smom]

I have 1x will always go voluntarily from now on.

[MuddyBoots]

We don't really do 72 hour holds here. It's just kinda you stay in the ER until you get assessed then either you go home, go voluntarily or you get an IEA (Involuntary Emergency Admission) and stay in the ER (usually about a month these days) until the cops can shackle you and take you to the state hospital. That's happened to me three times. I try to go voluntarily because staying in the ER for weeks and then having to cooperate with a conditional discharge sucks majorly.

[Aurelius710]

My state does 96 hour holds (excluding weekends and holidays), so unless I "schedule" my mental health crisis for a Monday or Tuesday, I'm there a good week. Possibly more. The one time I was 96ed, both weekends and holidays came into play, making my stay nearly 10 days, long after my symptoms abated.

If I need to go IP, I typically go voluntarily as well just because that visit was a waste of time and money. I was in a much better state three days in (could realistically have left after five), but still had to stay the extra week and get billed for it.

[MuddyBoots]

Originally Posted by MuddyBoots

We don't really do 72 hour holds here. It's just kinda you stay in the ER until you get assessed then either you go home, go voluntarily or you get an IEA (Involuntary Emergency Admission) and stay in the ER (usually about a month these days) until the cops can shackle you and take you to the state hospital. That's happened to me three times. I try to go voluntarily because staying in the ER for weeks and then having to cooperate with a conditional discharge sucks majorly.

Oh and the state hospital can keep you as long as they want. Average is 11 days, but I've met people there for years.

[HALLIEBETH87]

Yea at state hospital I r heard of people there for months. Thankfully, I have never been there in my psychosis because I feel like I’d be there forever.

[unlived]

Originally Posted by MuddyBoots

We don't really do 72 hour holds here. It's just kinda you stay in the ER until you get assessed then either you go home, go voluntarily or you get an IEA (Involuntary Emergency Admission) and stay in the ER (usually about a month these days) until the cops can shackle you and take you to the state hospital. That's happened to me three times. I try to go voluntarily because staying in the ER for weeks and then having to cooperate with a conditional discharge sucks majorly.

I can’t believe how they treat people with mental illness in some countries. Shackling you? That’s so wrong. Makes me angry. You are unwell, not a criminal.

[Mountaindewed]

I was on a 48 hour hold or so in 2015. But no one actually wanted to send me there but based on my states laws I had to legally go. But the staff at the hospital just let me sleep most of the time and didn't make me participate
in groups because they knew I didn't really need to be there.

I was almost legit involuntairly sent a number of times in 2020 though.

[HALLIEBETH87]

Well the ip I usually end up
At require
Participation. They lock you out of your room after breakfast

[MuddyBoots]

Originally Posted by HALLIEBETH87

Well the ip I usually end up
At require
Participation. They lock you out of your room after breakfast

At the voluntary place I usually go to they lock me out of my room after meals but that's so I don't purge. I'm allowed back in after an hour. There's 6 groups a day but only two specific ones are mandatory. I would hate not being allowed back in my room at all during the day. What are you supposed to do during downtime? I typically read or write and I need quiet for that.

[MuddyBoots]

Originally Posted by unlived

I can’t believe how they treat people with mental illness in some countries. Shackling you? That’s so wrong. Makes me angry. You are unwell, not a criminal.

Trust me. Out of the whole process being shackled is probably the best part because you know you're getting out of the ER after being there for weeks.

[Mountaindewed]

Idk this was a kinda nice one where they hooked up the phones for 2 hours twice a day so 4 hours total and just left them there so you could call whoever and they allowed outside food. Most of the patients were nice and the majority of the staff were nice too. This was my only expirence IP as an adult so I had just assumed all IP adult units were like this.

[HALLIEBETH87]

The unit I’m usually sent to is nice they just have rules. The phones are only off during group and after bedtime at 11pm. But there’s three phones for 30 people. It’s really nice there.

[otroo]

I have only been put on a hold once and that was after I had just got out of 30 days of inpatient then right when I got home I tried to commit suicide. Well they messed up the hold pappers and I was taken off of the hold the very next morning but my doctor told me if I tried to leave he would put me on a hold again. Our holds go through the court systems here and you have judges and everything they are the ones other then the doctors that can send you to the state hospital.

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[HALLIEBETH87]

I’ve never been to the state hospital but I’ve heard stories.

One ip I went to though..omg y’all. Of course they locked us out of our room right after showers. Then you can t watch tv til 7pm but I don’t watch tv much. However bc we were locked out of rooms we had to all stay in this itty bitty dayroom and we weren’t allowed to sleep so we all just sat there. Occasionally we got puzzle or coloring pages but it was damn boring. And we all had to use the same bathroom by the quiet room. Talk about gross. It was horrible there!!!

[MuddyBoots]

I have absolutely zero recollection of this but apparently after an attempt they took me into some place in Boston (I think Mass General?) and they had an aquarium there. I really wish I remembered it, but my mom visited me and said I loved watching the fish. I bet that place is top notch as far as psych units go.

[HALLIEBETH87]

Wow! Where I go they have a pond with geese. They wild let us walk down there and feed them