[bren]

I am just curious....have any of you be hospitalized for your </font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
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I have been in the hospital 12 times. My P-Doc teases me that I have frequent flyer miles there. Of course he doesn't do this until I am feeling much better. <font color="purple"> </font> <font color="] [/color">

[Taonuviel]

Yes. 6 times since July.

[wisewoman]

Many many years ago I was locked up in an institution like you see in Alfred Hitchcock movies with the brick buildings on the spooky hills. I was suicidal and made the mistake of telling the wrong person. Anyway, I am not sure if it saved me or not but I do remember the experience was pretty awful. They just held me and subjected me to some intrusive stuff like watching me shower, taking me way down to the sub level where it is dark and scarey and having a male technician do an ekg. He clearly was inappropriate with the whole thing but who was I supposed to tell? That was a long time ago, and I have worked with many inpatient psychiatric facilities and am pleased to say we have come a long way baby.

[Butterfly_Faerie]

Nope I never have been.

[silver_queen]

Yes, earlier on this year, in February, for three weeks.

[Wants2Fly]

No, I haven't been. I was pretty close at the end of September, but I didn't have the money and my meds kicked in. The facility that I toured seemed to have a lot to offer.

[droopy55]

Yes, I've been hospitalized twice as an inpatient: one for 5 days; the other for 5 and 1/2 weeks.

I was also an outpatient in an intensive program for 2 and 1/2 months.

droopy

[lenjan]

Inpatient for 3 days in Feb. of this year, partial for 4 days, and just this Monday got out of 8 days of partial.

Candy

[NoLeafClover]

Yes,3 times in the year 2000,The last one lasted 2 months,But it did help alot.

[(JD)]

Yes. 3 times I think since the accident... once was for overnight until that one storm went through... but all because of the PTSD and overwhelming events... first time was in '95 I think.

yes, twice...the first when I tried to kill myself, and the second was because I was afraid I might; so I checked myself in so I could feel safe.
Jon

[SweetCrusader]

I haven't ever been. Sometimes I have wondered if it would help me, but I doubt that it would. So I probably never will be.

[Rapunzel]

I haven't. Probably should have been a couple of times, but I knew how to answer the questions in order to avoid it (enough of the truth without sounding like I was actively going to do anything).

[Lexicon78]

I've been hospitalized about 10 times in the past five years. My first time in the hospital was in 1992, though. I was 13 and a real mess. I cut a lot then and was really depressed and suicidal. Go figure I was put in the hospital on April Fool's Day!!!!! LOL

[Myzen]

Hi folks,

Here's a good story for you. I have never been in a psychiatric hospital but my mother was for three days back in the 1960s.

She was compulsorily committed by my father (using me as a witness). She was released after three days with a clean bill of health. Curious?

At the time I didn' t have a clue what was going on, except that she had been very unhappy, drinking, and seemed to have lost the will to go on.

Shortly afterwards I realised what the truth had been.

When my father turned his full attention onto me, I knew first hand what my mother had been through. I carried his anger through my teens and twenties and this shielded my mother, as he liked to have just one victim at a time.

The doctors had treated the wrong person!
I mean, you've got to laugh.

Cheers, Myzen

[jbug]

I have been in and out of the hospital for the last few years. I was in in Feb for 3 weeks. I probably should have stayed longer but the place I go for therapy has a contract with the state to pay for hospitalization at the only mental health place in this area of the state and I had over stayed my welcome i.e. they didn't have anymore money to pay for me to be there so I left. I think that if I had been honest I could have stayed there a bit longer because my pdoc there was very concerned that I was being let out to soon. I had some serious acting out while in the hospital. I was in again at a different hospital 4 hours away in June. Glad to say that was my only time for my mental disorder I have been in the hospital this year. The longest I have been in was 5 weeks back in 99 because I was committed by my parents to be there.

Janniebug

[PlanningtoLive]

3 times............2 overdoses and 1 almost - got stopped before I could.

Last time was the worst - almost didn't make it.

[shakes]

Yes twice within the same year. I actually had decent experiences at both places. By decent I mean they were not the type of places that people normally think of, but neither were very good therapy facilities. I spent most of my days either watching TV or being drugged so much that going to eight hours of therapy was just exhausting.
Kinda ironic how they drug you so much to "make you feel better" that you are so tired so you cannot make it to therapy. Then if you do not go to group they won't let you out.
Being hospitialized did help keep me safe until I was able to work things out to a safe level.

Jessica

[Malady156]

I was hospitalized for about 3 months when I was 15 -- involuntarily committed by my mother. She was just fed up with dealing with the fact that I used drugs basically. The first hospital I was in for one month, they diagnosed me as either schizotypal or schizo-affective, can't remember which, but Mom didn't seem to take that seriously and I was too young to take it seriously or to really understand why they would think that about me. They put me on an antipsychotic called Trilifon and all it did was make my vision blurry. Then the insurance money ran out and I got transferred to a state hell hole -- a place where poverty-stricken people (which we weren't) dump mentally retarded kids (which I wasn't!) they can't care for financially basically -- I was in there with all these other "custodial care" cases. After a couple months of this worthless crap place I finally just told them to re-test me and I lied on the tests and faked the answers according to what I figured society would view as "normal person" answers. They pronounced me "cured" (ha ha ha!) and promptly released me. (What a joke!)

About 10 years ago I went inpatient at a small clinic in Ohio for about 7 or 8 weeks, did so voluntarily to work on some issues at the time. It was a pretty informal and unstructured place, run by a husband-wife team who were both therapists but not psychiatrists, it was more kind of like a therapy/recovery kind of center but they didn't do Dx or full psych evals or anything, they weren't set up for that. Still it was a tremendously relieving time for me, I got a lot of work done in therapy and learned a lot, and it relieved a tremendous amount of pain, stress, agony and trauma I'd been carrying with me all my life to that point. My load would be a lot heavier and my situation far worse if I'd not had that time 10 years ago. But even though it was inpatient, so to speak, it wasn't the same as being in hospital. We were free to come &amp; go, etc. Clients who weren't local roomed there during their stay but a couple local clients drove in daily for group sessions and such.

[cms39]

I did a short day hospital thing once.

A few years later, I voluntarily went into inpatient, then to day hospital. I believe I had a roommate named Brenda. No, I'm just kidding.

But we're both from Michigan...