Poll of the Day > Has anyone ever checked into the hospital for mental health reasons?

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asking for me

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Yes! I have twice.

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Technically not... I went because I thought I had pneumonia or something and it wound up being anxiety. So it was all for the best.

I have called A&E twice when apparently the issues I've had boiled down to anxiety.

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I'm extremely depressed and have hardly been able to think or focus on my school work all week (reading break). I moved across the province for school and feel like I'm surrounded by negative, unhelpful people. I don't want to fuck up my school, and that's definitely adding to my mental state.

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Do you have the time and resources to take at least a week at a mental health facility? And if you don't - do you feel like you're in a crisis state currently?

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ReturnOfFa posted...

I'm extremely depressed and have hardly been able to think or focus on my school work all week (reading break). I moved across the province for school and feel like I'm surrounded by negative, unhelpful people. I don't want to fuck up my school, and that's definitely adding to my mental state.

Are you staying in a metal health ward?

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ReturnOfFa posted...

I'm extremely depressed and have hardly been able to think or focus on my school work all week (reading break). I moved across the province for school and feel like I'm surrounded by negative, unhelpful people. I don't want to fuck up my school, and that's definitely adding to my mental state.

The best advice I can offer is to maybe figure out the sort of person you are most receptive to and seek out a therapist that seems to fit the mold.

wwinterj25 posted...

Are you staying in a metal health ward?

Nope, I live with a roommate. I've never gone to a hospital or done anything besides talking to counselors.

Jen0125 posted...

Do you have the time and resources to take at least a week at a mental health facility? And if you don't - do you feel like you're in a crisis state currently?

I don't know, I just always present as very articulate and can look at my mental state very objectively, so when I try to associate something with a 'crisis' state, it's just more that my brain is saying "I want to die" constantly and I just want to stare at the floor. Resources, sure. Although I'm living the student debt life atm. I have an available line of credit.

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Raddest_Chad posted...

The best advice I can offer is to maybe figure out the sort of person you are most receptive to and seek out a therapist that seems to fit the mold.

It's good advice. I get discouraged by a lot of therapists who just seem to think I'm doing really well.

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Do you already attend therapy regularly? Is it something you're opposed to trying instead of making the leap to admitting yourself?

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ReturnOfFa posted...

It's good advice. I get discouraged by a lot of therapists who just seem to think I'm doing really well.

Are you completely 100% honest when you talk to your therapist? If you aren't, the process won't be helpful.

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ReturnOfFa posted...

Nope, I live with a roommate. I've never gone to a hospital or done anything besides talking to counselors.

Does your roomate help you?

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Jen0125 posted...

Do you already attend therapy regularly? Is it something you're opposed to trying instead of making the leap to admitting yourself?

Not regularly enough. I've never been consistent enough to go monthly, I end up going every few months. I'm just verging on admitting myself because it feels like it could be more serious.

Jen0125 posted...

Are you completely 100% honest when you talk to your therapist? If you aren't, the process won't be helpful.

The highest up the chain of therapy I've gone is a guy with a Masters. And yes, I believe I am as honest as I possibly can be. It's usually pretty productive for my mood when I see a counselor, but I usually feel like something is 'missing', like an aspergers diagnosis or something. I can dig into memories with a counselor for hours but usually I'm told that I deal with and articulate my emotions very well...

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wwinterj25 posted...

Does your roomate help you?

No...he doesn't agree with anti-depressants. Conspiracy guy, 65, sits around watching youtube all day. Does some work, but doesn't do much around the house. Let a matte grow over his old blind dog's eye. I want a different living situation and intended on finding one at the end of the semester.

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I really appreciate the questions and responses...I always get a feeling like I'm a burden, and I know that isn't true. For me it's not like, voices in my head, but a really hard to verbalize feeling. It's like I've been struggling through my 20s to interpret my feelings, and I can read them quite well now, but putting words to a feeling still feels like it could be fake, even when it's not.

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ReturnOfFa posted...

No...he doesn't agree with anti-depressants. Conspiracy guy, 65, sits around watching youtube all day. Does some work, but doesn't do much around the house. Let a matte grow over his old blind dog's eye. I want a different living situation and intended on finding one at the end of the semester.

I often find friends, family or something along that lines is best to talk to when it comes to mental health. Professionals who have their head in a book seem to lack any help for me.

Edit: If you ever want to talk about anything feel free to message me.

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I will just say that admitting yourself is a serious decision because you get out of it what you put in.

Here are some pros and cons:

Pros:

• You can get treatment very quickly
• You can get medicated very quickly
• You can immerse yourself fully in your treatment and beginning of your recovery because you are constantly in the therapy/leisure environment

Cons:

• It's hard to know if a facility is a good fit for you until you go there. Online reviews won't be helpful because most of the people who leave reviews are unhappy about something. And most of the people are upset people with mental issues so - grain of salt.
• Health insurance billing surprises can occur. You think something is covered and consent but find out it isn't, service providers not being covered, etc. If you live in a place where this isn't an issue you can disregard this point.
• You are going to be around a variety of people with a variety of issues and sometimes it can be a very high stress environment.
• You need to be able to fully disconnect from the outside world - so if you don't have time away from work or school or enough savings for bills while you're away, you may worry about that instead of your mental health.

I hope some of that is helpful. The reason I say a lot of this is just because you will get a LOT of bills after this treatment. You may be responsible out of pocket for a lot of expenses that insurance doesn't cover. That money is an INVESTMENT in yourself and your health and if you can't or don't treat it that way, you'll resent the time you spent because you'll resent the bill.

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Also, if you have any private questions you want to ask about being in a facility or what to expect in general that you don't want to ask here, you can PM me or we can add each other on Steam and chat there.

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Thanks Jen <3. I'll PM you soon.

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Once, but it was a mistake and I quickly checked out after like a day.

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I also had a conversation on Discord just now with a prof that I actually trust. He had some great advice for things I need to communicate directly with a counselor. He also asked me to check in with him regularly. Which makes me cry because nobody has ever said that to me.

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That's great! If you feel admitting yourself is too extreme, it's great to identify a handful of people you can be honest with that will support you when you need some people to lean on. But, you should also try to benefit them in some way so it isn't a one way relationship.

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Jen0125 posted...

That's great! If you feel admitting yourself is too extreme, it's great to identify a handful of people you can be honest with that will support you when you need some people to lean on. But, you should also try to benefit them in some way so it isn't a one way relationship.

Yeah, I don't want to take his time. He was very on point with making it clear to a counselor that I need more consistency in my care.

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As for admitting myself, I'm not talking myself fully down from it, but I have felt my body calm down. It would be very beneficial for me to work on consistency with counseling - maybe admitting myself when I don't have schoolwork in the way - I really don't just want to toss all of what I'm doing up in the air even though my brain was going there.

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Most facilities are more there to keep you from harming yourself and less about getting better, if you have the time I'd recommend doing partial hospitilization rather than in-patient.

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I was admitted once like about eight years ago.
That was when I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome.

And still I remember that little talk I had with the chief physician and how much it explained why I was so different from other people.
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Admit yourself. You clearly can't cope. Only a moment of time before you do something stupid. Being a simp for Jen won't help you. She knows fuck all. Remember she got cosmetic surgery to fix her problems.

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AWinterJ posted...

Admit yourself. You clearly can't cope. Only a moment of time before you do something stupid. Being a simp for Jen won't help you. She knows fuck all. Remember she got cosmetic surgery to fix her problems.

This is wrong, facilities can be more harmful than good if you go to them at the wrong time, or you go to the wrong one.

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Ok, I got a similar story here. Not really admitting myself but close. I suffer from severe depression and suicidal thoughts. The latter I have about once a week it crosses my mind. So, two years ago thats when it seriously started to effect me. One day when I was at my psych doctor, she became so worried that she called the hospital, I got sent there. Played their game of 20 questions, evaluated, and then sent home with some useless papers on stuff that I am already doing! Taking meds, seeing doctors, etc. The whole nine yards. Next day comes... my psych doctor got worried again. Said to go back. I went back again. Same routine again. 20 more useless stupid questions this time from someone who couldn't barely speak English. And then finally sent home again. So overall? It was just one huge big waste of fucking time. Why would you send me to the hospital when they do fuck all to help me?

Because this is exactly what happened to me, and it really made me lose hope in all of that crap. It made me so sad that no one can really tell me right to my face that this hospital couldn't do anything. Not after what I went through and saw. And here I am still to this very day... nothing has ever changed. And let me tell you that its fucking painful to have those thoughts. They treated my mental health like a fucking joke. I didn't even care to pay the hospital bill afterwards because I just didn't care anymore. But anyways..yeah. Thats how it was for me overall on my experience that sort of comes close.

ReturnOfFa posted...

It's good advice. I get discouraged by a lot of therapists who just seem to think I'm doing really well.

I always thought therapy stuff was bogus and useless. Like getting some witch doctor to cast a spell. Turns out I just needed to be really picky and find the right person. Just keep at it and until one of them sticks.

DrPrimemaster posted...

This is wrong, facilities can be more harmful than good if you go to them at the wrong time, or you go to the wrong one.

It's the right time. The TC is safe and I'm right.

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AWinterJ posted...

It's the right time. The TC is safe and I'm right.

TC lives in America, not the UK

I sent you a pm Fa

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Raddest_Chad posted...

I always thought therapy stuff was bogus and useless. Like getting some witch doctor to cast a spell. Turns out I just needed to be really picky and find the right person. Just keep at it and until one of them sticks.

I can understand this. Different stuff works for different people. Oh, and I also forgot to mention I kinda found my own way. Still talk to my doctor though. But no longer take meds or spoke to the doctor who put me in the ER...at the very end of the day, it never solved anything back then. Just an expensive bill that can fuck right off along with the other useless doctors that didn't even do shit for twice in a row. The mental health field from my POV makes me angry sometimes at how its handled, and I got lots to say about it but Id rather not...

I have and stayed a couple weeks in a VA. Experiences certainly vary, but I found it helpful, and learned many coping mechanisms I still use today.

I live in Canada folks.

AWinterJ posted...

Admit yourself. You clearly can't cope. Only a moment of time before you do something stupid. Being a simp for Jen won't help you. She knows fuck all. Remember she got cosmetic surgery to fix her problems.

I appreciate the advice on admitting myself, and definitely will, but if I can stick it through this semester...it would be great. If my brain really goes off the deep end, I promise, I will. I'm not in any danger to myself, which you can't read into really. You also can't read into me 'simping' for Jen, since I'm in no way trying to please her - I simply appreciate her kind and measured advice. Please, weird jumping to conclusions is part of what drives me nuts about folks.

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I would say you seem aware, and I trust your judgement on admitting yourself.

I would just add that needing help is rarely convenient. There will always be another semester, another project, another job, ect...taking the time you need for you should always be priority.

ReturnOfFa posted...

I'm not in any danger to myself, which you can't read into really.

So this topic is pointless. Talk to people and deal with your problems. You'll be surprised how much I can actually read into.

Please, weird jumping to conclusions is part of what drives me nuts about folks.

Deal with it. It'll help you. I don't want another victim of mental health. You may have covered this but tell me again. What support networks do you have and what are you doing to help yourself?

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IronBornCorps posted...

I would say you seem aware, and I trust your judgement on admitting yourself.

I would just add that needing help is rarely convenient. There will always be another semester, another project, another job, ect...taking the time you need for you should always be priority.

Thank you.

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I highly advise not doing it unless you think that you are almost certainly just about to kill yourself otherwise. It's such an extreme risk to take. Calling 911 cause I felt suicidal was easily the worst decision I've ever made and one I will never make again no matter how bad I feel.

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No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I highly advise not doing it unless you think that you are almost certainly just about to kill yourself otherwise. It's such an extreme risk to take. Calling 911 cause I felt suicidal was easily the worst decision I've ever made and one I will never make again no matter how bad I feel.

Damn homie, I know some people that have gone to the psych ward via 911 :/. I feel for you. I am a 5 minute walk from an ER, so it's...unusually handy.

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So you're not answering TC? That tells me all I need to know. Go and seek attention elsewhere you simp.

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AWinterJ posted...

So you're not answering TC? That tells me all I need to know. Go and seek attention elsewhere you simp.

He acknowledged you before, and said he appreciated the advice. Your perspective has been noted, and more importantly isn't about you. Though, if you are having a hard time with that, perhaps consider admitting yourself.

IronBornCorps posted...

He acknowledged you before, and said he appreciated the advice. Your perspective has been noted, and more importantly isn't about you. Though, if you are having a hard time with that, perhaps consider admitting yourself.

Did I ask for your input? You know a lot about mental health but I digress. This isn't about you too. I will ask again:

AWinterJ posted...

What support networks do you have and what are you doing to help yourself?

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I'm not derailing this topic any further after this post.

Coming into a topic someone made regarding their personal mental health, and calling them "attention seeking" when they don't take your advice sounds pretty histrionic to me.

IronBornCorps posted...

I'm not derailing this topic any further after this post.

It's best you don't. It's not helping. Go back to your other attention seeking topics displaying your mental health. The grown ups are tying to talk.

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Fa, you are also welcome to message me if you want to talk about anything further.

AWinterJ posted...

It's best you don't. It's not helping. Go back to your other attention seeking topics displaying your mental health. The grown ups are tying to talk.

AWinterJ posted...

So you're not answering TC? That tells me all I need to know. Go and seek attention elsewhere you simp.

Your use of juvenile garbage e-speak doesn't add much to a conversation about my mental health, thanks. I already thanked you for your sincere and strong suggestions to check myself in. Adults don't need to acknowledge every single petty thing that someone says, but can still appreciate other heartfelt things they have to say. If you sincerely think that using the phrase 'simping' and trying to be taken seriously can coincide, I'll have to disagree. Cheers!

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Its probably different in Canada then.

I just know my experiences in the states resulted in surprise bills months later and werent helpful moving forward. The last one was helpful but my therapist sent me to that center specifically.

I just know some people have trouble in there.

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