I’m living in a place where I have been turned away from hospital after going there myself. It’s like ‘well, if you’re well enough to come here you can’t get in’. As I’ve now come off meds(sorry I know nobody wants to hear that), the seriousness of this is hitting home. I was on meds when I was turned away. But now I feel like my life is at risk due to the way the mental health services work here.
I have once and was turned away.
Mind you I took myself to the ER (I think it was two years now) trying to get some meds to tie me over the weekend till I could get it sorted. Ended up with a week hospitalization. I don’t understand how it works either.
Do contact your pdoc asap though if your struggling. Same goes for calling the counselling lines for extra support.
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I am so sorry you got turned away. I can totally understand the irony of that situation… it’s still not cool… and it’s very frustrating. But yeah… I can see how that could happen. I’m sorry no one offered you help.
I do hope you can get in touch with your doc and get back on the road to feeling better.
The times I’ve been taken in… it’s been involuntary.
I was turned away from a hospital in Wales. I presented myself in s very psychotic state. I was crazy but still the pdoc at ER turned me away. The reason being I was in a foreign country but I was fully permitted ot bbe in their hospital as I am a EU citizen.
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Just once, at a clinic. I had just finished off the last of my medication from my old clinic and was manic. I heard the pdoc at this one office was suppose to be really nice. She refused to help me because i was manic. She said she couldn’t help me. So i found another one a few days later but i barely understood her when she talked.
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Thanks. I’m actually doing OK, just worried that if I have a relapse it’s going to be a lottery. None of those fancy support lines here either. Also pdoc is only available 1 day a week, doesn’t accept calls, and is appointment only. Thinking about it, I’m probably screwed.
Perhaps your best best is to get a better pdoc for starters. Tdoc for other support and ways to reduce symptoms. Look into on or offline local support groups in your area. As they are often the best to get local information on what other help is available in your area.
Nope! I’m plugged into the national mental health support system. Any pdoc I get is available under the same conditions. It’s medieval here.
To be honest I can live with that, that’s not really my big concern. it’s just being refused entry into hospital when I can’t take care of myself has got me worried. I just wondered how many others might be in a similar situation and how they would deal with it.
But, there isn’t an answer I think. You got refused and lived to tell tale. I got refused and lived to tell the tale. So far at least.
Yep. Blown out of a Veterans Health System ER in '99 and told I had to apply to get into the VA’s substance abuse treatment program… when I was 15 years clean and sober. (No blood or urine test, either.) The VA is, of course, currently infamous for being massively dysfunctional.
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I never got turned away but I did get released from the hospital because I didn’t have insurance.
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