Posted by toojane on February 4, 2007, at 15:07:40
In reply to Re: Hospitalization » toojane, posted by Fallsfall on February 4, 2007, at 13:37:44
> A given hospital might be a good fit for a patient at one point and a bad fit later on.
Yeah, I get what you're saying about "fit" but I can't see how these things can ever fit.
I realize I am being vague. It's hard to talk about but I'm not meaning personality clashes with staff or being upset because of limits on personal freedom because of being restricted to a ward.
I'm talking about acts that were humiliating and demeaning and degrading and criminal. If a staff member had done the same thing to a person on the street, they would have been arrested but because it happened in a psychiatric hospital to a mental patient it is allowed. Or, if not "allowed" - possible.
> I think that my hospitalizations were good in large part because I was able to see them as opportunities, rather than incarcerations. I saw it as an opportunity to work hard with lots of different kinds of support - support that wasn't otherwise available to me.
No matter what way I look at it, I cannot frame my experience as an opportunity I failed to take advantage of.
> If I had left after 3 days (particularly the second time), I might not be as positive about the experience.If only I'd been able to leave after three days. The longer I stayed, the worse it got.
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