[Lil Ant Lady]

please would you mind reading my second installment of my blog? grateful to any feedback. thank you in advance, Laura x

http://mental-health-uncovered.blogspot.com/

[shezbut]

I am not very experienced at blogging ~ so I'm not sure what the aim is.

Kind of like ... a soap opera? To keep the readers anxious to read more updates on your blog?

Your experience at the hospital doesn't sound real unusual to me. There are always good and bad parts of hospitalizations. Things often do start off with major dissociation and/or hostility towards pretty much everyone. Otherwise, we wouldn't be there

From there, we go down farther as we realize that we're being held against our wills. Even with all of our wits about us, we couldn't leave until X amount of time passes.

We learn pretty quickly that we might as well work with the team, rather than against them, if we ever want to get out. That's when we seem to make "clicks" within the hospital. Terrific friendships, with our peers. We share our deep, dark thoughts & feelings ~ giving and receiving support. That part really is the best part of hospitalization, in my personal experiences.

That's when the staff starts seeing improvement with you. Soon thereafter, time to go home and begin regular treatment. I have had "days out" allowed from hospitals, but not overnights. I haven't ever had the hospital release me for one week, and then expect me to come back in for additional treatment though. Perhaps that different treatment that isn't unusual in your country?

Just my experience. I hope that your hospitalization did help and give some tips to try for your week away. Hope that it goes well for you ~ best wishes!

[cin1]

Originally Posted by laura youens

please would you mind reading my second installment of my blog? grateful to any feedback. thank you in advance, Laura x

http://mental-health-uncovered.blogspot.com/

I read your blog, sounds odd about your treatment, but then again, the whole mental health system is odd. i have found a lot of staff in places like mental hospitals are sicker than the people getting treatment. the only hospital that seemed half way sane was a private hospital, and i was there years ago. they kept me five years. now (years later) they are no longer in business. when i was on a unit of a general hospital, after being there four days, when i answered correctly to questions from the dr. ( what month is it, what day, who is the governor) then i was sent home. had to return by choice because my meds were wrong and i knew i wasn't right. before i was on the unit, doc said i might need shock. and sure enough, they gave me shock. i wasn't agreeing to it willingly. after two treatments, which turned out horrible, they sent me to another hospital. i say all of this to say, good luck to all of us who have to go through this. and try to watch out for yourself as much as possible. cin1

You tell your story well, laura youens. I wish you well.

[Lil Ant Lady]

hey guys and girls. thanks for your feedback.
i know it is shocking as to how i was treated and i am actually putting a formal complaint in against the hospital that was 'treating' me. they said they thought I wasnt 'that' bad but no-one had ever come to talk to me about my feelings and my future intentions. suffice to say it all went horribly downhill (to which, if you are interested, I will explain in a later blog). i think to this day they thought I was just being 'difficult'

i am fine now thankfully. I am emotionally regulated now and even started back to work at the begnning of last month to which im working on a phased-return basis, gradually increasing my hours as i go

my whole experience of the system I was privy to was horrific. and i sure wont be going back in a hurry thats for sure

the aim of my blog is to uncover mental health - and to give a candid account from my perspective. hoping to de-stigmatise the illness's we have to deal with and show that with strength we can overcome lifes biggest hurdles. xx

Hello, laura youens. I am pleased to hear you are doing better.

[SophiaG]

I am glad you feel better now, sorry or the ordeal though. Mental health systems can be incredibly difficult.

[alwaysrejoice]

at least they let you smoke, although you regret it now. I was a smoker last time i was in the hospital and they put me on the patch.