Posted by baseball55 on October 2, 2015, at 20:01:03
In reply to Re: experiences in a psych ward, posted by bleauberry on October 2, 2015, at 13:45:05
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> Lonely. That's the only word that really pops into my head when I think of the psych ward.
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> It was a feeling of hope when I went in. But that quickly fades when you realize it is not their job or their intention to get you better.
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> Their job is merely to "stabilize" the patient or stabilize the situation. As soon as you say you might not kill yourself, you are all better in their eyes and fit to hit the street again.I don't know what kind of hospital you were in that had advertisements for ECT. For-profit hospitals suck, in my experience. No non-profit or teaching hospital would do that.
As far as letting you go, it's not the hospital, in my experience, that throws you out once they feel you're past the suicidal crisis. It's the insurance companies. Twice, I had p-docs at hospitals tell the hospital that if the insurance company wouldn't pay, they would commit me and force the hospital to eat the cost. I never felt thrown out or not listened to.
But, as I said, I live in an area filled with major teaching hospitals and probably some of the best doctors, including p-docs, in the country. I consider myself very lucky.
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