Posted by yxibow on September 20, 2008, at 1:03:15
In reply to Re: i'm not well i hate everything here in the hospita » Jeroen, posted by bleauberry on September 16, 2008, at 18:02:00
> Jereon, I spent a week in the psych ward and I agree with you, it is not a rosey place to be. I was lucky to have decent food and some nice nurses. The doctors were nice too, but compared to veterans here at pbabble, they were pretty stupid. Their goal, at least here where I live, is not to get the patient well, though it's nice if that happens, but rather to stabilize the patient enough to let them out.
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> Where I live in USA they won't even keep you in the hospital unless you have convinced them you are going to commit suicide, or unless you have good insurance that pays for the whole stay. If there is any indication suicidalness has eased, you're out the door. If insurance runs out, you're out the door.This isn't quite true, unless you mean that you are there for long term readjustment of medications that isn't seen as critical to health.
You can't be denied emergency care in a hospital regardless if you can't pay it, in the US. Its illegal.
So you're right about the suicidality questions and other related reasons that a hospital actually must keep a patient under certain laws, if dangerous psychotic or psychiatric behaviour is observed on the streets -- I'd rather not go there actually because that gets into the realm of criminal psychiatric hospitals and may offend people [retracted].
But 7, 14, or similar day "holds" are common and they are required to keep you no matter what, as admitted by a PET team or the local police department or EMTs. That would fall under a "emergency".
My insurance ran out after one week and I was let out actually in worse shape than I went in.
Yes -- actually a psychiatric hospital is not the best place I must say for anything but single-task focused or emergency care. It is better to be at home with any family members you can contact and integrate yourself as much as you can socially and with the community -- isolation is not conducive to the "recovery model".
-- tidingsJay
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