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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:24 am
I'm not sure being insane is a requirement for checking oneself into a mental health facility.
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:26 am
(January 4, 2016 at 12:24 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I'm not sure being insane is a requirement for checking oneself into a mental health facility.
It's not.
I checked into one when I was having suicidal tendencies.
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:31 am
(January 4, 2016 at 12:19 am)Kitan Wrote: I am not good at guess work, because you seem reasonably sane to me always, so why are you there?
(January 4, 2016 at 12:26 am)Kitan Wrote: (January 4, 2016 at 12:24 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I'm not sure being insane is a requirement for checking oneself into a mental health facility.
It's not.
I checked into one when I was having suicidal tendencies.
Exactly.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:37 am
(January 4, 2016 at 12:24 am)KUSA Wrote: Are these as comfortable as they look?
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:40 am
I have a fear of being smothered, a fesr of being in a confined space and a fear of being trapped.
A straight jacket would do me more harm than good. Just seeing one pictured gets me tensed up a little.
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:40 am
(January 4, 2016 at 12:31 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Exactly.
I have no doubt that you will be fine. Unless you are shielding. People shield, and we cannot always see or break through.
It is not your fault that you have erected the shield, but neither is it our fault that we cannot penetrate the shield.
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:42 am
(January 4, 2016 at 12:24 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I'm not sure being insane is a requirement for checking oneself into a mental health facility.
True enough. I'm sane, I was just unable to function pretty much at all due to anxiety. Thanks to being separated from the sources of my anxiety and the miracle of anxiolytics and mood stabilizers, I'm feeling a bit better.
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:43 am
Do you have an idea of when you're going home?
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:44 am
(January 4, 2016 at 12:42 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: True enough. I'm sane, I was just unable to function pretty much at all due to anxiety. Thanks to being separated from the sources of my anxiety and the miracle of anxiolytics and mood stabilizers, I'm feeling a bit better.
Quite understandable. And I quite like a man who recognizes and is willing to do something regarding his weaknesses, rather than to become the man who is not a man at all.
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RE: Ask a patient in a psychiatric facility
January 4, 2016 at 12:48 am
(January 4, 2016 at 12:43 am)Judi Lynn Wrote: Do you have an idea of when you're going home?
I don't. I wouldn't expect it to be until late this week at the earliest, and after this I probably am going to be entering an intensive outpatient program.
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