teased by staff at partial hospitalization

I would just like to clarify that there is such a thing as a Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) that can be great - if you can find one that is what a PHP should really be. I did get real lucky in 2004, and it did me more good than anything else I've ever done for my mental health.

In fact, it was geared mainly toward PTSD survivors. I was probably the only person in it who wasn't really a trauma survivor. Still, I seemed to have plenty in common with my peers. The pdoc said that the extended lifelong stress of dealing with my demanding father was sort of like a prolonged trauma. At any rate, I fit right in. My peers helped me tremendously. I was living with emotional abuse and they helped me see that. They helped me more than the staff did.

So it's worth investigating. You can get lucky.

You just don't want to end up in some program that's kind of looking for warm bodies to keep up their revenue flow. Then there is In-Patient, which often is just warehousing people.

Kris Akira - I, too, am wondering how you are doing and if you found it worth staying in the program.

Rose

Good for you Kris! They work for you, not the other way around. Teasing someone who is having problems is not the way to help. If they continue then tell someone. If it is going to be upsetting to you then what help is it. The hospital needs to know how their therapist are treating their patients, after all your insurance pays their paycheck if you think about it. Take Care and don't let them run you off.

PHP is crap where i live. so are the psychwards. they are more REHAB than psych. i got out of a hospital inpatient that had 12 people in there. 11 not including me, in for drugs/alcohol purely. besides me someone had depression/suicidality.

They don't sound like trained professionals at all. They're supposed to keep in subject yes, but about your topics, not theirs, they're supposed to support any of your topics, not suggest / force anything. it's supposed to be therapeutic. I agree that people who work in psych wards do have that sarcastic kind of personality may be because, helps them get by working at a place where patients need careful individual attention. I didn't like some of the joke comments either while in their station. I'm a student that had to do therapeutic communications with patients, but I find some of the older staff forget basic things they're supposed to do

To everyone above - I hear ya.

I'm thinking of stopping going to the psych facility I go to. (I've been out-patient, PHP, and in-patient there.) Currently, I'm out-patient. I think the staff there, in general, is sick of me, and I think I'ld feel better not seeing them. My regular primary care doc could order my meds, and I might be better off. Sometimes, you have to disengage.