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Inpatient care

Ladybug5

Does anyone have experience in being in an inpatient or psychiatric ward etc…

Especially before I was medicated, and still sometimes, I would feel like I need to be in a ward because everything is too overwhelming and I guess it’s feeling like I don’t want to br in control anymore because I can’t do it. As well as depressive thoughts etc… I don’t know how to explain really because of course I dont want to have to be in hospital but I need someone to take me out of my life ? 
but I know that these places aren’t actually beneficial to people always? 

i feel out of options

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  • I was for a short while after a suicide attempt. It was the worst week of my life to that point. No one actually helped me and I was pretty much crying 24/7. 

    Last year when my anxiety got really bad and I couldn't even bear to eat anything or do anything, I reached a point where I would have been okay with trying it because I was so desperate; even with my bad memories of the last time and fear of being in hospital with covid around. I told a psych person in A&E when I got dragged there and she said that even though I hadn't eaten in days at that point and was constantly suicidal, there were so few beds available that I would basically be trapped in a bed in the regular hospital for at least a couple of weeks while waiting for a bed to open up on the psych unit. In the end, a psychiatrist gave me some diazepam and that temporarily killed my anxiety enough that I could eat something and slowly start recovering. It has taken a really long time and been really difficult, but I'm now at about 70% of what I was 2 years ago. 

    Maybe being an inpatient again would have really helped. Maybe it would have broken me for good. 

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  • I was for a short while after a suicide attempt. It was the worst week of my life to that point. No one actually helped me and I was pretty much crying 24/7. 

    Last year when my anxiety got really bad and I couldn't even bear to eat anything or do anything, I reached a point where I would have been okay with trying it because I was so desperate; even with my bad memories of the last time and fear of being in hospital with covid around. I told a psych person in A&E when I got dragged there and she said that even though I hadn't eaten in days at that point and was constantly suicidal, there were so few beds available that I would basically be trapped in a bed in the regular hospital for at least a couple of weeks while waiting for a bed to open up on the psych unit. In the end, a psychiatrist gave me some diazepam and that temporarily killed my anxiety enough that I could eat something and slowly start recovering. It has taken a really long time and been really difficult, but I'm now at about 70% of what I was 2 years ago. 

    Maybe being an inpatient again would have really helped. Maybe it would have broken me for good. 

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