Posted by Justherself54 on December 10, 2007, at 7:50:36
In reply to Re: Hospital admission put off until tomorrow., posted by PinkJade on December 9, 2007, at 22:55:02
Yes, it did help a lot..as I live in a small town I had lots of visitors (too many at times). I wonder if people are scared to visit a psych ward. Maybe they think they aren't allowed to visit..and sometimes they just go into pure denial that a friend or loved one has a mental illness..perhaps our behaviour leading up to the crisis alienated people too..I know I was extremely irritable and wasn't the nicest person to be around..I isolated myself and didn't want to speak with anyone..family persevered but a lot of friends just stopped trying, as they didn't know what was happening to me..prior to my hospitalization I had two stays in the crisis centre we have in the city.
IMO there should be more crisis centres than pysch wards..we have a travelling unit so if you live outside the city the nurses come right to your home, assess you and take you with them to the centre..you're in a homelike environment, placed in a regular schedule of eating and sleeping, with round the clock psych nurses and the pdoc visits every day..family and friends can visit in the living room..in fact it was as a result of chatting to a psych nurse that I disclosed some behaviour I had been experiencing which finally led to a proper dx of bipolar..there is no way I would have received that type of care in a ward..but they usually have a limit of time you can be there..3 weeks max I think..in my brother's case he had to be in the ward as he was withdrawing from massive doses of clonazapam and who knows what else..Sorry to ramble so much..just having my first java of the morning!
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