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HereToday
Arcanist
- Dec 27, 2019
- 437
About a week for me too but that was in the ICU, no psych thank god. The ICU at that hospital was a shit hole so I don't want to imagine what psych would be like
Bahbah Blacksheep
Member
- Dec 23, 2019
- 49
Bahbah Blacksheep
Member
- Dec 23, 2019
- 49
Partial suspension. I was 17 at the time, so I had no say in it. And my mother didn't want to let me go, til the doctors said it was ok, really convinced they'd know what's best.
3.5 weeks
At one time I was in the same room with a woman who chanted in Ethiopian at random times (at night too) and a bulimic girl who routinely puked right from her bed on a towel.
And during rain it leaked in six spots at the ward.
It wasn't fun.
At one time I was in the same room with a woman who chanted in Ethiopian at random times (at night too) and a bulimic girl who routinely puked right from her bed on a towel.
And during rain it leaked in six spots at the ward.
It wasn't fun.
Giraffey
Your Orange Crush
- Mar 7, 2020
- 439
About an hour... I didn't need any hospital treatment but they wanted to keep me in the psych ward indefinitely as I was psychotic at the time. I had a meeting with the psychiatrist but then an old psychiatrist I saw as a child telephoned in, intervened and got me let out. He was convinced that being sectioned would ruin me and destroy my prospects in life and so luckily I was set free. I've never been back and the crumbling place was torn down a couple of years later.
TStorm
Fading Light
- Mar 18, 2020
- 47
Four days in ICU plus an additional four days in the hospital. Then six weeks psych hospital. About a dozen rounds of electro convulsive treatments, and med adjustments. Honestly saved my life, and it did give me about ten years of stability.
Now I feel like I'm back to square one. Got shit insurance and can't afford decent treatment. Whatever.
Now I feel like I'm back to square one. Got shit insurance and can't afford decent treatment. Whatever.
rntmss
Taking it one day at a time
- Feb 7, 2020
- 197
When I was 13? 5 days in adolescent psych... worst experience of my life.
My two times as an adult?
Around 24 hours.
My two times as an adult?
Around 24 hours.
josainsplorgat
Member
- Feb 24, 2020
- 21
when i was 16 i overdosed on an assortment of pills: 3 or 4 days in the hospital mostly blacked out then 2 weeks in psych ward from there things got much worse i spent 3 months in a wilderness camp and 9 months in an "adolescent treatment center" . psych ward was heaven compared to those . i'm 32 now and as shitty as my life has been i don't think anything tops that shit. also did time in the same psych ward when i was like 13 followed by a different wilderness camp and "emotional growth boarding school" that weren't that bad.
Hhhhhh
Student
- Jan 30, 2020
- 115
Queer_Kenny
Member
- Mar 26, 2019
- 41
AlexM
To find the outer edge
- Oct 31, 2019
- 125
Seven weeks or so, and it wasn't even a real attempt in my opinion. I had willingly stopped mid-attempt. I tried explaining that to my psychologist to prove I wasn't a danger to myself and he felt it meant I was as I had started an attempt in the first place.
Police brought me in. I was in ER for like three days due to bed shortage, and mostly in isolation room because I was involuntary. Then seven weeks in psych ward. Staff was amazing, honestly, but experience still sucked. They wanted to keep me longer, but my certification expired and I wasn't actively suicidal anymore.
Police brought me in. I was in ER for like three days due to bed shortage, and mostly in isolation room because I was involuntary. Then seven weeks in psych ward. Staff was amazing, honestly, but experience still sucked. They wanted to keep me longer, but my certification expired and I wasn't actively suicidal anymore.
My last hospitalisation was supposed to be a checkup lasting a few days but they decided to keep me 3 months.
Kokichi
If I died technically the problem would be gone
- Mar 28, 2020
- 22
Never Free
Student
- Feb 6, 2019
- 177
The ICU for me wasn't bad for the most part. When I moved rooms to wait for the psych floor it was worse. Though was a children's hospital so at least there's hope they are nice to fatally ill kids. I was an adult, but the hospital sent me there, simply because I was so ill after the attempt. I was unconscious, but it's what they told me. The psych ward was terrible
I stayed about that long, bc I didn't buy their BS. They made up I was psychotic, admittedly, bc I was there for a suicide attempt, which is harder to coerce into taking drugs. The psychiatrist said they'd need to "treat my problem indirectly". Although that was supposedly for bipolar, to which he decided I didn't fit, and had "mood problems"
About the same I think
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oneess
Die in my sleep
- May 5, 2019
- 46
Spent my 2 last years in an open psych ward(could get out of the hospital premises for couple of hours), now I'm a day patient which means I'm going every morning to the hospital five days a week for dynamic groups, psychotherapy and meeting with a psychiatrist. It's pretty much postponed for now tho because of the pandemic, I'm there for 2 days every week only for my psychologist meeting.
