Posted by pretty_paints on February 20, 2005, at 9:30:39
In reply to Re: hospital stays, posted by Maxime on February 19, 2005, at 14:26:16
Hi Nicki,
Hospital is really not bad at all. Well I guess for some people it can be.
I had an okay time. I went in for 3 weeks as I was psychotic. I wasn't locked up though.
The food was greaaat (but I was on Zyprexa! he he). The people were all a bit weird and I couldn't be bothered with them.
As for arts and crafts, ahh, I would have loved this! I understand what you mean about it being demoralising, I mean 6 months previous to hospital I was studying at Cambridge Uni. And from that to...ooh, cut a tree out of cardboard and stick it on with glue. But ACTUALLY, I really don't care about that. The point was, I was too ill to be doing things I'd done in the past. And arts and crafts and simple things helped me forget about the difficult stuff. I could actually achieve something again. Anyway, I do a lot of stuff like that now, 6 months on. A gardening group, an art group, meditation, etc etc.
Actually in hospital it was crap. There was NOTHING to do all day but watch tv in a dirty room. Urgh. Or be in your room, bored. I would have liked to try group therapy too, but there was none.
I felt safer in hospital, and would go again if things got bad. If anything, I could easily go in at the moment just for a rest. I'm in the middle of changing from Seroquel to Abilify, and I feel lousy. I would like to have the pressure taken off and just be able to go in for a few days to not have to think or worry about anything.
Anyway, there was another post about hospitalisations. I wrote a really long post for it. Try on the search engine!
Anyway, hope this info is helpful :-)
Love Kate
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