- All the time
- Only when I needed something
- Avoided it until someone insisted
- Never
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I thought my family was “in on what I was thinking” when I was delusional in the hospital. No one could convince me otherwise when I was sick.
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When I was angry… I never called unless someone insisted. I remember blaming my family for a lot of stuff that never happened.
But on my later stay… when I was 24… I was lonely and I called all the time.
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I called about once a week.
I live alone so nobody to call. The main one when I needed family the most. Parents were off doing the grey nomad thing. ie. sold the house brought a 4 wheel drive and caravan. Put their surviving parents in a nursing home… Travelled the country for many many many years. Which was an attempt off Dads to run away from his own mental health issues.
Other family members I asked for help and support I may as well of asked to sacrifice their first born. That last phone call was just asking them why no body had picked me up for day leave. As staff where not going to let me out without a family member present. Day leave never happened and the last time I bothered calling family members from hospital.
Sorry I needed to get that out. But thanks for letting me do it.
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Home was the reason I was put in the hospital.
I called every now and then if they would let me. It depended on what ward I was in, and if I needed anything or some support.
When I first went in I thought all the ward phones were bugged so I didn’t call. On later visits I would call about once a day. Was nice to hear a familiar voice.
In the beginning I called frequently, as I was a lonesome 12 year-old. By the time I was 14, I never called, and I isolated. My father and I used to get in huge fights, and I just grew tired of fighting with him all the time and quit calling and quit taking his calls too.
When i was under 24hr observation (unmedicated) i called my dad over and over leaving delusional messages, insisting he call a lawyer to get me out and god would smite him if he didn’t. Once on meds i calmed down and my family visited every day so i didn’t have a reason to call anyone.
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I didn’t call my family they couldn’t have cared less that I was in the hospital the only person that came to see me was my partner. She was the only person I called.
I don’t reallly remember when I was able to have a phone again, maybe after the 3rd day, but in the beginning, it was like prison and I couldn’t have anything.
But I seem to recall needing my daughter there every day and night, and playing cards with her, and feeling like I just shouldn’t be there because I was well.
I got home and after 2 days I almost killed myself, this dark, painful feeling was swallowing me up. I suffered through, because I din’t want to go back in patient.
Actually it was the song, Help Is On The Way, by Rise Against.
I heard it for the first time, and I nearly ended my life.
does being locked in the death star count ? 
take care 
I think I only called once because my family visited me a lot both times I went. I’m lucky that my family loves me and cares. I take my medicine because they ask me to and because it gets rid of the voices. I feel bad because I made one friend the first time I went, and then I told her it would be ok to call someone she had a crush on I think. I feel so bad, I should have told her to wait until she got home. I was just so psychotic, and didn’t know about the stigma of being in a mental hospital yet, because I didn’t realize what they even were. I was so out of it and wrapped up in the voices I was hearing and the delusions I was having.
I never called my husband or mom. I talked a lot with a friend though.
I called my mum everyday generally apart for some really hard times. My dad I only talked to when he visited. I’ve always protected him when I can. I didn’t call anyone else. My mum was the only one honest with me, and loved me no matter what, I didn’t think I could trust the doctors/nurses very few of them would I talk to. I needed my mum really.
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Nevah!!! 15 characters. Mother visited every day though. Other family members on occasions.
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They locked me in a room full of people on drugs there was no phone.
I didn’t know you were in hospital. How many months were you in? My 17th year I spent a total almost 8 months in… not in a full row… but 17 to 18 was in… out and relapse… back in… out and relapse…