I had gone 14 months before, but roughly today is the 1 year 6 month annivesary of being in that damn psych ward
it doesn’t sound bad being in the psych ward, when you’re healthy. but when you’re psychotic it’s awful. it would be cool to meet people and all, i find that fun. but right now i’m 1.5 years out and not complaining. hopefully ill make a similar thread in 6 months about being 2 years out
6 years for me. Between 2006 and 2009 I was hospitalized 3 times. I’ll never forget that the pdoc who evaluated me told me that if you keep taking your meds, there will be no reason for you to come back here.
My last hospitalization was in 1990. Not coincidentily that was also the year I kicked a nasty drug habit. But you’re right about the hospitals. If I wasn’t psychotic or if nothing was wrong with me those places would seem like a vacation. I’ve been in some nice ones and a couple bad ones and one horrible one. I was in the psyche ward at Stanford University. It was perfectly clean and safe, with comfortable couches and good food. But I didn’t get to enjoy any of that because I was busy being really screwed up.
I got out in 2011. 4 years ago. Been there for 6 months. I did not like it. I was busy with my delusions and hallucinations. I could not go out alone. I was not a friend with the psychologist, I hated her. My mom forced them to release me. I lived at her place for 4 months before I went home again. Feels like I had destroyed my brain. I had to relearn everything. Cooking, doing bills, taking care of the kids etc.