What is required to have an hospital stay? Do you think my condition is bad enough for that? Is it only reserved for suicidal persons or only people with psychosis or delusions?
I’m so weak I have difficulties taking care of myself. I can barely make my meals. I can’t clean my dishes, clean my apartment, go buy foods at the grocery, etc. My brother has to do everything for me. ️ I can only be on my sofa during all the day.
I don’t see my psychiatrist so much often. Nobody knows if I feel better or worse.
It’s not a stupid question at all, don’t apologize! I can totally understand wanting to see a mental health professional more regularly. However I feel that unless you are in crisis a hospital may not accept you as they tend to focus on those individuals. Unfortunately there are often not enough services to prevent people from reaching those states in the first place.
The hospital doesn’t do much for you. They just change your meds and give you a safe place to stay if you’re a danger to yourself or others. Since you just had a medication adjustment, they might say there is nothing more they can do.
That said, if you feel you would benefit from a hospital stay, there’s no harm in going there and seeing what they say. The worst they can do is send you home.
With your recent posting history, I can’t help but wonder if your psychiatrist has considered an anxiety disorder or some kind.
I don’t want to take the place of people who need it more than me. I just wish to feel better soon because I’m suffering so I was wondering about the help I could get.
Obviously the doctors and my psychiatrist don’t take me seriously when I tell them that I feel weak and about the urgency of the situation.
I don’t think my psychiatrist thought about an anxiety disorder. She never talked about that.
Hospital stays is one of the worst experience i’ve had in my entire life. Although i’m sure that is different for everyone. If you really want to schedule a hospital stay for a long term stay talk to your medical doctors and get referrals. Although i really recommend that you try something else because their care and treatment can be harsh.
What I don’t like is that I already know that the medication adjustment is ineffective but my psychiatrist will know that only Thursday. So I will lose another 4 days while there is an urgency to recover quickly! ️
Have you tried guided meditation/relaxation tapes? Or the ice pack trick @rhubot was telling you about! Since you believe your symptoms are somatic, that means the power of your mind can overcome them, and the pressure you’re putting on yourself to recover will only make you worse.
During my 12 years of sickness, I have tried everything including meditation and relaxation. Nothing worked. Only an efficient antipsychotic helped.
I know that the pressure doesn’t help me. I am the kind of person who always put on myself a lot of pressure in anything. It’s hard. Hard to not worry.
I will talk to my psychiatrist about that. But she doesn’t ask me questions. I think that I may have issues unknown to her.
I had a 7 week hospital stay. They stripped me of all my old meds and added new ones. They didn’t want to let me leave until they started to see the new meds working. It wasn’t a great place to be but it helped getting on proper meds.
I think a partial hospitalization program with a combo of group and individual therapy may help you. I did one for three weeks, 7 hours a day after my first stay and I can tell you that it helped me much more than inpatient. Plus it gets you out of the house and there may be a craft time or other activities. You should look into this if you aren’t in danger to yourself or anyone else. But I hope you feel better.
️ I can only be on my sofa during all the day.