I’ve been very stressed out lately, and it’s made me feel more and more depressed. On top of that, I got the news a few hours ago that my best friend has terminal cancer and maybe a year to live.
He didn’t want to tell me yet, because he was scared the news would make me wind up in a psych ward, but I got him to tell me by telling him I wasn’t planning on going there anytime soon.
My voices haven’t really been active lately, but they’re raging now. They’re not loud yet, but they’re very active, and very negative.
They alternate between wanting me to do bad things, and wanting me to go to the psych ward.
Ever since I “promised” my friend I wouldn’t be needing to go to one, the voices have been repeating the words “psych ward”.
I don’t feel like I need to be in one right now. Plus, I’m starting on a higher dose of Invega tomorrow, so that’ll probably calm me down a little.
However, should I be concerned? How long should I wait it out before I talk to someone in real life about it? Does it need to be adressed at all?
Do you think you dont need to be in a ward right now- or do you just not want to be?
I am sorry your having a hard time and about your friend. I also think you should do something relaxing. Or maybe get outside for some nature time.
A bit of both, I suspect.
Going to a ward now would screw up everything. My friend would lose trust in me, I’d feel terrible about it, and I wouldn’t be able to continue my education.
Well you should be open to the idea that perhaps you do need to go but your convincing yourself otherwise. Your health needs to come before your friend and school.
Do something for you and talk to someone you trust in person about it, and go from there.
You could probably phone for support any time you like, thats what it is like here anyway, i have 24hr a day 7 days a week support available which is really handy,
Also if you think you are going to hurt yourself or someone else they would send a nurse round to help and if you needed hospital treatment it would be available (but that is the last thing that they will do)
it makes me feel safe knowing that their is always someone to talk to who will listen and suggest things that might help and give me support.
There is something called “Your Emergency Option” I could call, I guess, but the people who answer the phones there are the same people who work at the grouphome I lived in.
I’m not sure I want to talk to them
are you sure that there are no other support you can use, i know we have support from samaritans, breathing space and i have my official people i can call like the duty nurse who i can visit during working hours if i need to see them without an appointment, i also have a crisis number followed by an out of hours number which is available when everywhere else is not
My care worker has gone home for the day, so has the psych nurse.
My friend is dealing with his own problems, and the other friend isn’t replying, probably busy.
My only other option would be to call the psych emergency room, but all they would do is either tell me to take Seroquel or come in for a chat, which may or may not result in me being admitted.
When i have something on my mind the best thing for me to do is talk about it, its like a weigh off my shoulders in a way, you could talk about it here but if it is serious enough a face to face might be better,
If you get unwell assure your friend that it is not his fault you feel bad, you could say that you felt bad before he told you the bad news,
Are you afraid you might do something harmful due to the voices?
If not, I don’t think it is likely you would be admitted if you didn’t want to be.
And if you did get admitted, do you think it will get better in the hospital? Or are they just going to give you your same higher dose that you would be getting tomorrow?
When I had my third psychotic break, it was the first time I had voices, the voices were telling me I needed to get to somewhere safe. Like the psych ward. So I had my mom drive me to the hospital, in the middle of the night, because I didn’t know how to get there.
When I got to the psych ward they gave me a drug cocktail because the voices were bothering me so much. I slept for a day or two and then when I woke up the voices were gone. They put me on a new medication and everything was fine from then on.
I think the wanting to be admitted came from knowing that the hospital would be a safe place for me to de-stress and be shielded from the outside world.
But I don’t think they’d do much to me exept give me the upped dose of medicine.
I agree with twinklestars. I don’t think it is necessary that you go to psych ward but you definitely need an increase of the dose of invega. If you go to the hospital, what they will do is an increase of meds or switch of meds. This can be done at home. @Berru
