Do you go voluntarily or were sent to hospital by your family/pdoc? Did anyone go to the ward and request hospitalisation themselves?
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My first and only hospitalization was involuntary, I personally neglected to pick up on that many warning signs. It was my family’s decision that I go; I wasn’t seeing a pdoc at the time because I refused to acknowledge until it was too late that I was sick.
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I’ve had 1 hospitalization but that was split between to hospitals. The first was bad the second was good. It was voluntary.
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when did u realize that u were sick? and have you been much stable after the hospitalisation ?
did they give u any medications in hospital? and how do u do after that ?
all my hospitalizations were involuntary. I totally bought into the natural remedies, and was meticulous about what I put in my body. thought the meds were poison from big pharma and that I didn’t need them. each time my symptoms raged out of control and I was admitted. now im on court ordered meds, because if I wasn’t I probably wouldn’t take them. preferring my physical health over my mental health is usually why I stop taking them. im sza. a pdoc may accuse me of getting manic. which I think is a little ■■■■■■■■. im a natural creation and just happen to have a lot of energy and time on my hands. so I often will take long hikes, or hitch hike, or take trips seeing the country, and that is what gets me thrown in there. im not near as adventurous as I used to be. just want my normalcy.
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I went voluntary, but was then held involuntary because I was so sick
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I was changing from quetiapine to Olanzapine and also taking diazepam, clonazepam and a 1 of haldol PRN.
My delusions and depression have been well controlled for 4 years. I still have negative symptoms and sleep problems.
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so u went to the hospital queuing for psychiatry service not expecting hospitalisation but they decided giving you a hospitalisation first?
No I wanted to be hospitalized. Then when I wanted to leave after a couple bad experiences on the ward they fully committed me because I was considered a danger to myself
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it sounds a big struggle. Do u feel better after meds? if so , maybe it is better to take meds…
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well I do now feel like I need meds for life. to have any normalcy. but I sometimes get the urge to stop them. im more mature and have more experience than I used to so probably wont come off them, unless it’s to see if “im cured” which im not at the moment.
physically I feel worse. but mentally I feel better yes. so will stay on them for now.
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All 4 of my hospitalizations (all in 2013) were involuntary lol. I was put under California’s Lara’s Law, forced to take meds after hospitalization. I’m no longer under Lara’s Law. I hated living around other people I didn’t know/wasn’t friends with.
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I’ve been hospitalized over twenty times. They were classified as “voluntary”, mostly, but you get so involved in the process that it is nearly impossible to find your way out of it. So it really isn’t voluntary. I fought my case four times in court and lost.
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do ur symptoms go away now?
I’ve thought about suing the president or trying to get him arrested for allowing the world to spy on me.
so when are u able to leave from the hospital?
Right now I am in an assisted living center for the mentally ill. I haven’t been in the hospital since 2013.
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I have been in four psychiatric hospitals involuntary all times.
Once I was going to take myself to hospital when I felt unwell after quitting olanzapine but after I took olanzapine and a sleeping tablet I felt much better and could cope so I didn’t end up going but I did have my bag packed.
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I think a part of me was aware something was amiss when I was being admitted even though I was deep in psychosis at the time.
I’ve been pretty stable overall, just some mood issues lingering.
Thanks for asking. 
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