For me i havent been in one since october 2018… usually im in there every 6 months… spent christmas in there once… now that i quit weed i dont see myself going there anymore but who knows
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Moving to D’xd Sz/SzA.
I’m almost 3 weeks out. I spent 3 weeks and 5 days in there. I actually miss it sometimes, more so when i first got out, now not so much. I liked having no responsibility, 3 meals a day that i didn’t have to cook, and always having someone to talk to.
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1 year and 1 month out
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A little over a year for me
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I was hospitalized several times in 1989-90. then I stayed out for 25 years until 2015. I was in for two days but not since then.
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It has been decades for me.
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I have never been hospitalized in my 8 years of schizophrenia, came close but never.
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My last stay was in 2013.
2012 last time i was in there.i m mostly med complaint patient
Probably not Hospitalized for several years now. I’ve kinda lost track, but believe I’ve been confined to the Psyche Ward on 5 occasions…several weeks each time.
Last stay was May 1981 approx to March 1983.
I used to go once every 6 months or so. I can’t recall when I last went. It’s been a few years or more. I felt good on Vraylar for years. I’m on a new med combo so I’m hoping for the best. It’s holiday time so I feel a little weird on zyprexa and trintellix. I’m sleeping more.
Overall, I’ve probably been hospitalized 15+ times over the years since 2011 if we include inpatient and outpatient visits.
My negatives really affected me early on. I also had depression. I’ve since improved. I am on a low dose of zyprexa (10) and just went to 15 mg. I’m on 20 mg of Trintellix.
I used to take supplements, but stopped.
Jul2022 was the last time
Holy doodle that is a long stay. Condolences.
I had gone there after an short time at a social services halfway house for the severely mentally ill. My parents were separated. My mum was living with a primary school teacher.The primary school teacher - she thought my brother,sister, and me were ‘spoilt brats’. My Dad had put the family bungalow up for sale and gone to Atlanta,Georgia to be British consul general there. I was at a low ebb mentally. At best a candidate for a group home and at worst for a long stay ward. I had zero idea how to get a place and live independently. Things changed when I met my future wife there in September 1982. She was not the most law abiding person in. the world , her two youngest were in care(my ‘daughter’ and her brother), but was good to me and believed in me when all others saw me as a ‘hopeless case’. We left hospital together on March 8th 1983. Her son came back to us when he turned 16. My ‘daughter’ was also 16 when she came back to us because social services couldn’t cope with her. Very bad behaviour by her foster dad. Her brother turned out to be a nasty piece of work. She was told she’d never amount to anything, but has had a solid 25 year + career working in the social care field. She’s local branch manager of a home care agency. I’m very proud of her and love her more than words can say.
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I’m there right now
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Not long ago, in late October.
I warned my mom it would be 5000 a day for the ward’s expenses, but she didn’t listen, they pulled the hidden 3 day clause on me (with the judge conveniently out for the incoming weekend) despite it being a voluntary stay, and 11 days later I finally got out with a 50,000 bill, which medicare covered 97.5% of it, just so you know where your tax money is going…
America, where else on earth can you be both jailed against your will, when you came in for voluntary treatment, and then billed for it after. Something psychopathic and parasitical about that.
I am just saying, but why not just give that money to people who need it for living expenses, instead of rewarding hospitals who farm patients, while they can get away with it?
One guy was in there for over a year, can you imagine making $1,825,000 a year for observing a single patient, without actually doing them any good whatsoever?
Why aren’t we all millionaires if society wants to spend that level of money on mental illness, but keeps our sort of people living in miserable impoverished conditions, especially those living on the streets.
In case you haven’t gotten it yet, scammers be scamming. We are cattle to farm.
Sounds like 1984, here are some animal farm quotes to elaborate:
- “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
- “Comrades!’ he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”
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I was in an adolescent unit back in 1990 for a month.
4 months ago. Been in every year since 2017. Crazy amount of time locked up. In an out over and over.
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