These were the two words that got me sent to the ward a few years back. I didn’t know what it meant. They just said I was not a harm to myself or other people but that I was unable to care for myself? I don’t know still what their reasoning was. My mom cried and begged them to let me do outpatient but they refused. So I got taken away.
Anyone else ever get that label?
I was only hospitalized involuntarily once when I was 14 per my parents request and this was just the local psych ward not a psych hospital.
it seems that where I live you have to be either a minor or a danger to self or others to be involuntarily hospitalized. I could be wrong but from what I read on the state hospitals website this seems to be the case. I had no idea you could be hospitalized in some places simply for being unable to care for yourself. Scary though as I can just barely take care of myself regardless of my schizophrenia…
How long were you there if you don’t mind me asking?