Posted by bleauberry on December 10, 2008, at 20:51:31
In reply to Pdoc recommending inpatient treatment, posted by glennb on December 9, 2008, at 18:43:13
I have been inpatient. Not exactly the kind of place for healing, but then the place you are considering could be different. The main priority of most psych units is to "stabilize" the patient, usually when they are psychotic or suicidal. You'll be locked up in a ward with some frieky ones.
Anyway, all that aside, there is no way you can get someone well in a couple weeks.
But it is a good opportunity for yet another opinion, another doctor, to make some creative pharmaceutical strategy with you. And enough time to get started on those meds and be in a safe place during the worst of the side effects, or the worst of the withdrawals of the old ones, or both.
I wish they had a hospital where people could go for a few weeks just to change meds. Ya know, no working, no laundry, no cooking, no worry, no responsibility, just survive the change and then go from there. It would be nice if you could wear regular clothes, get some sunshine, and see something other than a hospital hallway and hospital rooms as scenery. But, locked doors, no sunshine, no scenery, no friends, no family, pajamas instead of clothes, ya know, it just doesn't have healing built into it.
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