Posted by pat123 on March 15, 2001, at 14:59:09
In reply to cutting not in control, posted by judy1 on March 15, 2001, at 10:30:42
> My therp mentioned a hospital that specializes in this, 2 weeks inpatient. I freaked out. I just can't do hospitals.
From what I understand, cutting is a difficult behavior to get under control. Given that this hospital specalizes in this problem you may have to put aside your hospital phobia to get well. That is what you want, isn't it ? It may take a controled environment where you cannot do this while at the same time spend all your waking hours
working out why you do this and how to stop it.Do keep in mind that the psyc hospital is different from a regular hospital. No daily blood draws and other intrusive procedures. Could you visit this place to check it out ?
I remember from the archives that you have been working to stop this for some time. Cutting seems
to become a ingrained behavior over time so if you are not having sucess (stopping cutting) going inpaient for 2 week sounds like a good next move, to me. Otherwise the other option is to do nothing and continue cutting. Inpatient treatment
holds the possibility to stop this. This behavior
must be very troubling to you and drastically effects your quality of life. If it were me I would do anything to stop it.Maybe if you did some fact finding about this hospital program this would help calm your fears.
Pat
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