Why are hospital stays so long?

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I tried to go in voluntarily to get a depot injection. Ended up on an S3 (section 3) of the mental health act.

I have leave outdoors of the hospital by myself and have taken meds.

Not psychotic or a danger to myself or anyone else.

But they’re making me wait till Monday to go home.

It’s so stupid. I should have been home a week ago.

I find some hospitals are like this, where they don’t use the least restrictive practice.

I had insight the whole time.

No psychotic episode should equal no 51/50 (section)

What’s up with all the bureaucracy and box ticking nonsense?

I’ve been detained since Oct 25th. So unfair when all I asked for was a med adjustment.

I’m gonna make a complaint to the CQC.

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I have no idea but sometimes the stakes are high for mental health hospitalizations. Dealing with self harm or danger to others is usually the reason cited for admitting people. I suppose the problem is not that they keep them too long but perhaps that they admit people without cause a lot of the time…

Or at least they fail to distinguish between dangerous situations and those who just need a little help. As a result they keep everyone as if they’re a danger to themselves or others.

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I think for me it’s probably cos of my track history. 7th hospitalization.

Just wish the process was faster.

Next time I’m never offering to go in voluntarily again.

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It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the long time is due to their wanting more money.

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Yeah this happens a lot where you go in voluntarily and when you want to leave they just section you. People a lot of times think they can leave whenever but they can’t.

Not saying this is always the case but I know that it’s common to have this happen

@PinCushion i kind of think that’s true sometimes

It’s like they keep you until ur insurance won’t pay anymore and then when that happens ur magically cured and ready to leave.

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They aren’t in my part of Canada. They usually send you home before you’re stable, but you’re still more stable than the person who got your bed.

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Are you replying to me or someone else

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To the OP. That is generally assumed when it is not directed specifically.

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So,the hospitals are crowded in Canada?

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That’s one way of putting it. Our health care system is in the middle of a meltdown.

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I voluntarily went to hospital in 2014,they told me first ( doctor in checking point) that I don’t have to stay,but I wanted bc of irregular sleep patern.
Then they kept me for a month (for a sleep dissorder :neutral_face:)…

After month I was actually thrown out,bc of procedure that they have to justify my further stay to health system.

So I don’t plan to go again.

PS Eastern Europe…

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Did you change your name?

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In the UK there is a shortage of beds

And nhs is tax funded

But I can see some hospitals milking it by keeping people.

More people means more funding.

Some people never seem to leave

The system is broken in the UK.

Sub par.

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Yes,when I came back from anoning account …

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If you have good insurance then hospitals will keep you longer
It’s a money game

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When I was a teen my dad had good insurance. I ended up in the hospital for a very long time. They even admitted when I finally got to go home it was because the insurance refused to pay any longer

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I ended up staying in the psych hospital for weeks on end because I have decent insurance

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As a teen I had Master Major Medical BCBS. They kept me inpatient for a very long time. Then when they finally released me, they put me in partial patient 5 days per week for a whole year! It’s such a scam

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Can a moderator please delete my last three replies.

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@moderators please delete my posts on this thread because they are probably “TRIGGERING” to people like everything else I post.