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Cooper
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08 Sep 2007, 5:09 pm

Definitely see if you can find more information about the hospital, or maybe ask your girlfriend to help you research if you're not feeling up to it. Some places are safe spaces dedicated to helping people get proper treatment, but others are hellholes only interested in forcing "compliance" upon their patients. Also find out what kind of training the staff has, because a lot of places just hire nurses who know absolutely nothing about various mental health/neurological conditions, and just think all the patients are generically "crazy". My BF worked for a brief time in a mental health facility and saw some really messed up things being done.



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08 Sep 2007, 10:53 pm

ChatBrat wrote:
Well yeah, if you're suicidal then you need to be safe. Do you have anyone that is helping you at home with this right now? Someone to keep careful watch of you? Hopefully the Depakote will do its job quickly so you can get past the suicidal ideation.

I've heard from different people that some state hospitals are actually nice. I wish you much peace and I want you to know that things are going to get better. Don't give up!


No no skims out as in, discounts the idea of suicide i am not suicidal. if it was depekote monitoring, she would have suggested a reg hospital she didnt she said a mental hospital. ANd that my gf couldnt stay just visit. I get claustrophobic and agoraphobic alternately and a hospital and restricted meltdowns wouldnt help i think.



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08 Sep 2007, 11:30 pm

STAY AWAY from mental hospitals. That is all. I've had dreams about them in which I learned about how traumatic they can be, and while there is a chance that it may work for you, there's also a chance where you are a hopeless prisoner in a downward spiral of restraint.



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09 Sep 2007, 4:45 pm

That almost happened to me, when I was seeing the emergency worker at my local mental health office. That was nine years ago, when I really wasn't doing that well. I'm glad that I wasn't. I hear many horror stories about the mental wards in the hospitals around my area, from the recovered people at my clubhouse.