- Once
- Two to three times
- More than three times
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I kinda lost count. I think I’ve been hospitalized 5 times…at least 4 anyways…from 2005-20217 I believe.
I should check my records with my doctor to be sure, I suppose.
When I had the psychotic Christ delusion, it didn’t help my brain being hospitalized.
Jesus was the advocate for the poor and the ill, so I felt I belonged where I was…that it was meant to be.
I can count 5 for sure between 2012 and now but I think it was more that I can’t remember. I spent alot of time sick and homeless. It’s been 2 years since I’ve been in a hospital though which is good. I have finally got the hint about being steady on medication.
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Injections have helped me. No need for pills anymore.
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I take pills. I have a friend who does the shot and he says it works for him as well
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With pills, I’d either forget to take them…be late refilling them…or just stop taking them altogether thinking I had the affliction beat…only to crash 4 weeks later.
I’ve been sane now for 9 months… a pretty good streak for me.
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10 or 11. They were lucky to have me.
One hospital was like a country club. Another one was a hell hole.
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10 or 11?
Did they keep wanting you back to do a stand-up routine for the other patients? 
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I’m actually pretty good at taking my pills cause I get scared if I don’t. For a awhile I was forgetting/couldn’t remember if I had taken my morning meds but now my pharmacy delivers them in like a pouch kinda thing that has the date all the different pills and marked morning afternoon and evening so I know if I’ve taken them or not. I my past I would take pills and then just stop for no reason. But this time I’m really dedicated to my sanity because this time it’s working for the first time
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They liked me more for my singing. I’m a natural baritone and I used to sing Elvis songs for candy bars. I sound and look just like him but I never got the sneer down pat. But yeah, I found my corner and busked 12 hours a day.
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Must be 10 times.
Between around 2015 to 2018 I was not very compliant with my meds, and it took 6 different med changes to settle on Amisulpride
I also had my drivers license taken away because I was too psychotic to drive apparently.
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My psychiatrist was pretty cool with me the last time I went into psychosis.
He told me to promise him that I would not drive, otherwise he would have to fill out forms to have my license revoked.
I listened to him and just took the Bus around until I became healthy again.
Seven times
6 weeks x 3
10 days x 2
3 months
9 months
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Probably over 20. They called them “voluntary hospitalizations”, but I was so caught up in the process I didn’t know I could ask for a mental health trial. I did try that a few times, but every time I was sent back to the hospital.
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I was in hospital 10 times (4 between 2003-2005, and 6 between 2013-2019)
Between 10 and 15 times and that doesn’t include partial patient programs
Over 20, but none since 2000.
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I was hospitalized voluntarily 2 times back in 1989 and 1990. I was in my mid twenties trying to pass my state boards for registered nursing. I didn’t pass them because I couldn’t study properly do to audio and visual hallucinations. I couldn’t become an RN like I planned so I got a job working as a STNA ( State Tested Nursing Assistant ). I worked as an STNA for almost 211/2 years. I had to eventually quit my job because I also have an anxiety disorder and the stress got to be too much (being an STNA is hard work!) I am now on disability retirement.
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I been hospitalized 2 times each for 4 months.
First psych ward was terrible but had good after support and the other psych ward was really nice but after i got out they were terrible to get me all the right papers and such.