[Stronger]

It's not a competition, I'm just curious.

Over the past 5 years I've been admitted 4 times. I guess it would just be nice to know that I'm not the only one who's ever had to go back. This last time, I felt like a complete failure.

[jadedbutterfly]

Have stayed out of the hospital for 2+ yrs (?), but in the past, I have been admitted dozens of times, not sure of the actual count, I would have to search through my files and that would take to much energy right now

[Hellion]

2 times so far....the second time was better as it was a better facility with better food, not just a cramped area in a larger hospital with terrible food like the first one I was in.

[buttrfli42481]

5 times in 7yrs in psych units, and 2 times in 1yr in Eating Disorder units. I have been hospital free for almost 13mths.

[shezbut]

It has been a couple of years since my last hospitalization (yay!). I've been hospitalized in psych units several times in my life. A few times as a teenager, and four times 20 years later.

[splitimage]

3 times for me - each lasting for a month or longer. I'm trying really hard right now, to fight the need for another admission.

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[wyarwehere.lds1987]

Eleven times in a three year period. Three of those at the state hospital(lasting nine, seven and eight months respectively). I've been out for about fourteen months now.

[pachyderm]

Two times -- the last in the early 1990s. One was in a state hospital, the second in a private hospital, associated with a well-regarded medical school. I'd say the atmosphere in the private hospital was worse. In the state hospital was a lot of depression, an atmosphere of hopelessness, but in the private hospital the attitude of the staff seemed to me to be that patients were mostly recalcitrant, stupid children.

[nuttycrust]

24 weeks over a period of 7 years in state hospitals. I treasure every day I spent there, every time I cam out more equipped to face life. Unfortunately you can only be admitted 8 weeks at a time and only once a year to the therapeutic ward. Fighting this illness is exhausting. My shrink says a relapse every now and again is "likely" you should just pick up on the warning signs early to prevent a serious episode.

I suffer from clinical depression ptsd and gad

[pinkbutterfly]

I had my first hospitalization in September 2010 for about a week.
November 2010 - two weeks
December 2010 - two weeks
May 2011 - one week
October 2011 - one week
January 2013 - 5 days
February 2013 - one week
August 2013 - One week

8 total hospitalizations - in about three years.

[outlaw sammy]

Actually, I love the private hospital psyche wards which I've visited about five of six times over the last two decades. But mostly when I decompensate into manic-psychosis (which happens at least once a year), I find myself locked up until trial. So be thankful for a restful visit to a psyche facility - it's far better than a detention facility (i.e. jail).

[Sabrina]

I've been in a private hospital 3 times in the last 12 or so years. But I've been free for a long time now.

[Canyon]

I really don't think I could even count how many times I have been inpatient. My first time was when I was 15. It seems that I have a period of time where I get admitted quite often and then I can go years and years without an admission. Then something happens and the cycle starts again.

5 times since my original diagnosis of bipolar disorder about 25 years ago. All for depression, except once because I had awful insomnia and my psychiatrist wouldn't help me with sleep medication. I "talked" my way into the psych ward and was put on Geodon, which solved the sleep problem.

[snarkydaddy]

Once for 6 days in a lock down psych ward. Do Not wanz to go back. So i am taking care of myself

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[GardenLady59]

Twice. Once for 60 days in 1996 as family deemed me homeless. They proceeded to steal my daughter through the courts. I had done nothing to deserve it. Depression. No suicide attempts, just thoughts. Messed my daughter up and sent me into a hell for six straight years, fighting them in the courts to get full custody returned. Had the truth about what they all put her through in that house come out early on, I would no doubt had seen her returned to me. Wicked people doing wretched things. Took my money from me for her support in that hellish house, too. She was in an open dining room for her bedroom for those years. Three boys and NO PRIVACY!! She knows it messed her up. Don't believe guardian ad litem. They are there for their time and that's it. Not for the child. Liars!

Second time in 2009 for 22 days after losing so much sleep caring for my dying dad. Fourth stage lung cancer. I told them I could only do 3 days/week care, not 5 days/week. They would not listen. Told me to fill out paperwork to have him put in nursing home. Like I would do that to him! He wanted to die in peace at his apartment. I relive it when I talk about it, but would go through that just to help others learn not to be pushed around by family just because you are the one who "doesn't work". I went back to school in summer 2011, and still struggle to keep home and health.

In recent months someone decided it a good idea to bring old enemy back into our family camp, and now she divides it yet again. Cannot trust my family. I have other person for my emergency contact now. A real Christian lady with a wonderful husband. They know me. They care about me. They know how to pray. Thanking the Lord for them.

I've been in four times.
The first time was only a few days, but the last three times have been for usually about three weeks. My last time was a two weeks and four or five days I think.