I was talking to my psychiatrist and he told me it would be good for my mental health to be hospitalized and I accepted. So I was hospitalized. I didn’t have a bad or traumatic experience there. I had a psychiatrist who visited me every day. The nurses were really nice. There were three men who tried to flirt and I didn’t like that.
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It was horrible. I thought everyone was an actor and the staff were torturing me.
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I went to hospital ten times mostly voluntary but the last one or two my husband wanted me to go and i didnt want to and my pdoc suggested it too. I think it was what they call assisted admission. I was in five different hospitals. Two private psychiatric clinics and two government psych hospitals and one general hospital in emergency room and psych ward. The psych ward was the worst - they locked you in a room with no books or therapy activities and it was so boring and I missed my husband so much. The last three times I went to that hospital.
Recently my pdoc suggested hospital again and I refused saying I will just increase my meds. Hoping to avoid any eleventh time. It’s getting too much!
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I’ve never been to the psych ward, but I have been to the ER for “chest pains”, which is what I thought it was at the time. It was really a severe panic attack – which I didn’t know at the time. Looking back, and having a few other panic attacks, is what made me realize it was that, and not just “chest pains”.
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i approach the psych unit myself many times to get admitted but they do their best to keep me from getting admitted…I have to be in a real state in ther opinion to get admitted…you need to exaggerate your symptoms
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I had around 8 hospitalizations, all voluntarily… Yeap, I am strange… But tbh, they didn’t help me much. They just found my med, but my life is non existant still…
Currently, I try to stay away from the hospitals, I am paranoid now from all the docs or even the people outside… I guess I need to pay efforts now here.
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