IP mental health and medical issues?

If you need to go inpatient to a mental health hospital as a result of medical issues and they outweigh your mental health ones but you still need to go what happens? Can they completely seclude you from the other patients and put you in a room by yourself so you can rest and not have to go to the groups? Or can you maybe be watched under observation in a medical hospital?

I don't know for sure... I had some medical issues come up while I was IP and had to be sent to a medical hospital. They kept a sitter on me while I was there 24 hours a day, and had the psychologist come see me once a day.

I would think it is possible to have mobservation in a medical hospital if the medical issues are prominent. But also if the psychiatric issues are the most important issue, doctors would probably prefer a psychiatric hospital situation, even though a medical hospital would be more comfortable for you...

Sounds like a tough situation. This all depends what the mental health facility is prepared to do. Can you or your medical doctor approach the place you need to be and find out what they will allow?

When I was sick with anorexia, they put me in the medical wing with IV nutrition but they took me in my wheelchair to the groups in the mental health area. They can do both depending on how medically sick you are. I landed on the medical floor several times I OD'ed. Ended up in the psych ward after I recovered enough. Totally depends on the hospital.

Last time I was in a hospital for anorexia, the hospital had no psych section. My MD called in the staff pdoc & psychologist to take care of that aspect though that time it was also associated with PTSD, & it was all beyond their capability.