And how did it help you? Mine was December of 1989. I guess it was a safe place to be.
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Mine was 2012-2013. It didn’t help me much. They tried to put me on Seroquel (sp), but that just lowered my blood pressure which is normally already quite low. So they upped my Geodon, which really didn’t help me much. Now I’m on Risperdal.
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- It made me to decide to not be hospitalized again. A safe place to be - it weakened me.
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Mine was a couple of years ago. I think it lasted about a week and a half. Back in the early 1990’s they would keep me in the hospital several months every time I was committed.
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Because I hated hospitalizations I had in the 60’s and 70’s, I’m to this day very proactive about my treatment least I get thown into one of those places again.
It is good I stopped smoking, huh? Already I’m having a lot less heartburn, for example.
Jayster
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First and last was 1986 for one week at a state hospital. I didn’t find it that bad, I imagined it would be worse. And was at first afraid of some of the other patients.
Learned pretty quickly to play along for my own good so I could get out of there. It didn’t make me any more med compliant, that came later. But it put things into perspective for me, and I learned how not to end up there again.
9 months in 2006
It stabilised me on to the best med i’ve had,
safe place? Definitely! I’d be dead
2010-2011. 6 months. They have tried to make me go to hospital several times but I have refused. Scared that I will be stuck there again for ages.
I was never hospitalized but most recently my psychiatrist wanted me to go to the hospital on a home stay,group homes…but I changed my mind afterwards
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erm…2009 i think but only for 24hrs. i wa too scared to stay in there as i was hearing everybody’s voices around me saying they were going to rape and kill me in unimaginable torturous ways. they should have sectioned me but they let me go home.
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Around 10 years ago
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About nine years ago, one month before my eighteenth birthday and they â– â– â– â– â– â– up my brain.
Two years ago. It was such a delightful night.
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January 2014, they put me back on my meds as I had stopped taking them. I soon recovered and went home after three weeks.
March of 2012; stopped my medication. Had a severe psychotic episode. Restarted geodon and haven’t missed a dose since. About 3 weeks inpatient followed by 4weeks of outpatient.
Mental hospitalization… 6 years ago. Part of my trying to leave this life.
It was the stay that turned everything around. The detox and rehab finally sank in and the alcohol counseling finally sank in. Getting more active on treatment finally sank in.
Trying to leave this life was the lowest point, and it’s all been uphill from there.
(it’s been bloody hard work… but it’s still been up hill)
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For me? Never! Never been hospitalized. Though surprised with some of the things I tell my therapist. Just a few days ago I told her that if I’m denied for a mortgage loan (or any other major hiccup preventing us from buying the condo) would trigger serious suicidal intent. She just asked me if I would “reach out” and ask for help if that happened. I said yes and that was that. Though I have already made it clear to her that I’m not impulsive on subjects like suicide and it’s not something I’d commit to (no pun intended) without serious thought.
I’ve never been a danger to others (well maybe once, but that was when I was first having problems. Way before my first psych appointment.) I keep any danger I may be to myself a secret, specifically so I don’t get hospitalized (with a few careless exceptions like my example above). I do have issues taking care of myself, but they said as long as my wife is around to help me I’m OK.
So yeah, never. And hopefully never will.
In my case I have not had this experience yet. The first time I visited to my Doctor I told him that I wanted to hospitalization because I felt myself very bad but he told me that it was not necessary; only with medicines was enough.
Tolteca.
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January 2000 for a few months. I think it made me worse for a while being denied my own space and the pacing, pacing, pacing. The ward I was on tended to be younger people having their first break. I suppose as you get older if you are lucky you can recognise the signs before it gets too bad and avoid hospitalisation.
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Part of July-part of August of this year. Less than a month. It helped more than it hurt if I’m being objective, but I never want to be there.
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