Quetiapine should reach steady state in your blood 3 days to a week. It has one of the shortest half lives. That and Geodon. I felt the drug taking effect within a matter of hours.
it makes a difference if you are still a bit psychotic or just completely head over heels psychotic. If youre unstable but still can have some sane thoughts and you check yourself in yourself your hospital stay will be different and you will be treated much better than if you are totally psychotic. The people can trust you more and wont treat you as bad by forcing you to take meds or take shots etc. if they see you comply with your treatment and take your meds orally, they wont resort to violence in your treatment. I have had several times in voluntaritly checked myself into hosptal because I felt my symptoms were there and I was scared to end up in a full blown psychosis. On those occasions I had good treatment, I stayed until I was better and could basically decide when I felt better and could check out. I once went home although the doctors said I should stay a few weeks longer and they let me go and I my gut feeling was right because I was fine at home and back to my responsibilites at work. I did have one time where I was involuntarily taken to hospital by three big ambulance staff who picked me up from the street and drove me to a hospital where I was held by them and a nurse gave me a haldol injection and some big tranqulisers that knocked me out so I went into sleep. I woke up in a closed ward and although I was already better, they treated me like ■■■■ and gave me injections. I had terrible reactions to the haldol and may jaws almost broke they became twisted etc. Anyway, after two weeks or so, I was transferred by ambulance for a long ride to my local small town hospital which I mentioned in some other posts and there I was finally treated like a human being and was soon transferred to the open ward. Here everybody was nice, I was trusted and I felt safe and comfortable, how one should be able to feel in a hospital setting. This environment can actually help a lot in getting better.
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It depends on the hospital. I felt anything but safe when I spent two nights in the psyche ward last year.
my dad was offered to go to the hospital a few weeks ago but he refused and instead took the cab home. i think he would have evened out faster if he had went. sometimes hospitals help. i’ve never been restrained at least not physically but medicinally i have they shot me full of haldol a bunch of times the second visit to the psych ward
They still do that!? Do they still have padded rooms? I didn’t experience any of that when I was inpatient.
Yes, exactly, they are still doing this! I’m talking from my own experience!
I don’t think they do have padded rooms, at least I’ve never seen or benn
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In the uk you don’t get restrained, only injected in the butt. The term used is chemical kosh. Is not very dignified.