A mechanic is a great line of work. Since you can start your own business. Good luck with the job hunting you’ll feel less depressed once you start working.
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6 months, wow! Why did they keep you that long? We’re you a danger to yourself and others?
In 1981 I spent 8 months in the hospital. Time fly’s when you’re having fun. It got boring as hell and I got tired of playing polo because the saddle on my horse gave me blisters. The hot tub was cool but all those naked bodies made me nervous and the waitresses bringing me my whiskey sours were kind of snobs.
The candlelight dinners were a nice touch, as were the twice a day full body massages except the women masseuses had thick accents and kept asking me if I wanted a “sappy fending” but I never figured out what that meant.
If (god forbid) I ever go back I’ll definitely bring a crossword puzzle book the next time so I don’t get bored.
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At the hospitals I’ve been to, they discharge you asap, as soon as you are no longer a threat to yourself or others.
I’ve been hospitalized eleven times over the past 19 years. My typical stay is 4-5 days.
My shortest stay was 3 days, even though I was still quite psychotic at discharge, my first psychotic break. I demanded a discharge, and I think the doctor discharged me because he knew the only way I’d accept that these things I thought happened were just delusions was if I saw it for myself. And yeah, that was what convinced me I’d been psychotic. Hell, I still was psychotic, just not as acutely so.
My longest stay was 8 days, and that’s only because I sort of attempted suicide in my room a couple nights in. They put me on one-to-one and moved me from my normal room to an isolation room, though they encouraged me to stay out of the room as much as possible, so it’s not like I was locked in there. Also, I had to wear paper gowns for a few days; they took my clothes away, other than socks and underwear.
Oh, good times lol.
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I’ve lost count of my hospitalizations. My longest one was 3 months, my typical ones just a few days. My last hospitalization was in May for 2 weeks…they were going to send me to the state hospital in Anchorage but the waiting list wasn’t moving and since I was no longer a danger to myself they let me go home. Years ago it was much more common for a typical stay to last up to a month but changes to insurance compensation led to the push for shorter stays.
I was also on olanzapine and gained 30lbs in 2 months. I quit taking it because I hated myself for getting fat again and, worse, for feeling like I had no control over my eating. I’m on Abilify now and it handled most of my symptoms but now I only get about 3-4 hours of sleep each night…so every 5 or 6 days I “supplement” it with some old thorazine I have and am able to get 6 hours sleep.
I lowered my antipsychotic dose of risperidone to 3mg and was thinking of switching to Abilify because of side effects. What’s Abilify like.
I find Abilify helps both with positive and negative symptoms but early morning awakening seems to be a common side effect. You can take it morning or night and with or without food. My intense hunger went away on the Abilify and I can eat like a normal human being again!
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Thanks for the positive words @MisterCrowley!
First time I was hospitalized for depression and suicide attempts it was about a month. Since then it has been a couple weeks at a time. It’s not a good time, but sometimes I just needed a vacation in a safe place.
3 years man
tow months its peanuts
i war 2 and a half year in a word, got out nad came back after tow weeks for another half a year…
fun 
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3 years wtf. I would’ve been like acting up saying let me outta here after another day in the few times I was there a month.
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3 years is a long time. I don’t do well having my freedoms restricted. Sorry you both had to experience that.
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they drudged my so much that i culdent find eny mind of my own. they make my such a trauma from meds, that i cant bring my self to take them again, and i need them so much
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No I only did a month, twice. I was like wow that’s crazy. I could never do 3 years. I told a doctor I’ve done a month in the psych ward he says “that must’ve been the old days” and laughed. But it was 2012 I was really psychotic and then I did a 28 day program after that In the hospital too.
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thanks man, the most horrible close plase was my druged mind
i culdent imagine, fell, nothing
thank god i got out
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I’m sorry you had to experience that it’s hard to imagine.
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The best part of being hospitalized is that you eventually get to go home. I can’t imagine the people in prison for life, with no hope of ever leaving that hell. I couldn’t make it.
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now in my country the also trying to cope with the world
but i was in 2012 til 2015
oh god i want to die just to think about it
and yes i was very psychotic
actually my ps says i am too now
but drugs almost dont effect me…
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@martinhersey1 said he stayed 13 years in a hospital…
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thats hard coar,
i know some people in my woard that been there for more then ten years, they wer shadows of humans, empty people with no mind