Hidey-ho!
I'm on a mobile so selectively quoting is difficult, but I'll answer your questions the best I can.
Inpatient treatment is serving three purposes for me: its allowing me to adjust to medication in a safe environment, its allowing me a break from things that were causing my anxiety, and its impossible for me to throw myself under a bus while I'm here. The last one is only slightly tongue-in-cheek.
From my therapist's perspective, I am here for the same reasons, but also so my medication can get me to a point where non-pharmaceutical therapy can once again be effective.
Most of the people are here are just normal people who've reached the end of their rope. It's not "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" or anything like that.
I'm on a mobile so selectively quoting is difficult, but I'll answer your questions the best I can.
Inpatient treatment is serving three purposes for me: its allowing me to adjust to medication in a safe environment, its allowing me a break from things that were causing my anxiety, and its impossible for me to throw myself under a bus while I'm here. The last one is only slightly tongue-in-cheek.
From my therapist's perspective, I am here for the same reasons, but also so my medication can get me to a point where non-pharmaceutical therapy can once again be effective.
Most of the people are here are just normal people who've reached the end of their rope. It's not "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" or anything like that.
(January 4, 2016 at 8:33 pm)God of Mr. Hanky Wrote: CD (if you don't mind answering these questions), what are they doing for you in the hospital that you think actually helps you?
I'm curious because my life has been so dark and unstable from chronic depression that I can't believe hospitalization has never been recommended for me. I tend to overthink everything and fall down disgusted from it, and my recovery periods are only getting shorter. Being too intelligent (if I don't say so myself) to believe dying is any better, and being studied at the art of fooling most of the world with my shit-eating grin, my therapy sessions have benefited my therapists far more than myself (they get paid to be entertained), therefore I resolved to keep cash for them in my pocket. I am now wondering if hospitalization is my only option now, and then I truly wonder if it's an option at all after several prescription drugs proved to be either dangerous allergens or ineffective at maximum dosage. I guess what I wonder is what they (hospitals) actually can help anyone with, but also what problems make it worth volunteering to risk being kept in an unhealthy environment (indoors, no fresh air, people who are so depressing you're liable to grow a death wish when you weren't suicidal going in). Are they really in the business of helping the patient, and if so, how do they really do this when their invariable actions are about protecting society from the patient? So far, I'm leaning toward the notion that hospitalization is good for some mental health problems, but it could be really bad for some.
(January 4, 2016 at 9:04 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(January 4, 2016 at 7:54 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: Do you find group therapy, helpful? I've always thought about group therapy, what it might be like, and would it be hard to open up to others? But, then it might be helpful and comforting to know I wasn't alone in my thoughts. Idk.
((hugs)) I hope things get better for you.
We don't do talk therapy here due to the length of the typical stay. It's just too short. We do occupational, recreational, and educational therapy groups which I do find helpful.
I don't find talk therapy groups to be particularly helpful because I have trust issues and find it difficult to open up to strangers. Hell, it took years to develop a strong trust relationship with my current therapist.
