Posted by CEK on May 7, 2006, at 19:26:32
In reply to Re: Just hospitalized and feel worse!! » CEK, posted by blueberry on May 7, 2006, at 18:06:33
> What hospital were you in? I've heard several bad stories of hospital stays and maybe just a couple good stories.
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> I've felt the need to check in to the hospital hundreds of times but never quite did because I was afraid to find out my place of last resort might not be a good place to be.I was in Lakeside in Memphis, Tn. I hated to do it since I was admitted to another hospital for the same reason on Jan 31. I hate the whole group hospital thing. I had hoped that this experience would be better and that I would come home feeling at least a little bit better, not worse. There were some nice people there, but it was the next thing to prison. The violent people in there scared me to death and the staff threatening everyone with putting us in the ward with the rest of the unsafe ones did not help my anxiety. During the few good group discusions that we had, my heart (what was left of it) was tore out and I would bawl forever over other peoples stories of their painful experiences. Again, definitely did not help my depression. I thought I would get counciling while I was there but we only get to meet with a therapist once every seven days. The rest is entirely group therapy which was filled mostly with people that were disruptive and would not cooperate. I found out that a lot of the people there were only there because they had no where else to go. They were junkies and homeless. They would bounce from facility to facility until their check would come in then demand to be discharged so they could get back on the street and buy drugs, spend all their money and go back in. The whole time the government is paying for all of this. Here I am, struggling to survive and support my family wanting real help just to waste my time and money trying. What options do we have when you can't get help being hospitalized? I thought that was the ultimate last resort for real care. Once again, I guess I was wrong.
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