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sunflower29
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Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?
10/01/04 03:01 PM

This thread is really interesting and hits home for me because I spent a single night in a psych ward, voluntarily committing myself because I was convinced I needed psychiatric care, and thought, naive at nineteen, that this would be the best place for me, since this is what they supposedly specialize in, helping emotionally/mentally distressed people.

Well, I spend that night in a regular hospital bed, wearing one of those peek-a-boo nightgowns, with a few visits from a nurse who gave me a "poor you" look, and sat down and talked to me a few times, which I appreciated, But no psychiatrist, just a vist from my GP.
I shared my room with about four other people, and I witnessed severe mental illness. I realized I wasn't sick enough to be in this place, it was making me even more depressed, and checked out the following morning.

In Canada, even people who are very, very mentally ill are not kep in psychiatric wards for long.
I've seen this in my apartment building, where a woman with bi-polar, who shouldn't be living on her own, is taken to the hospital about once a week, stays overnight at one of the hospitals, and is back to square one the next day.
It's sad to see her on this merry go round, and they have about ten different people working her case, so nobody really has the whole story on who she is as a human being. They treat her more as an inconvenience, an annoyance.

But it's all part of the pattern of de-institutionalization. Releasing mentally ill patients into the community without any support to help them cope outside an institution. They should be a part of the community, but everyone needs support, and it's just not there.
It's sad and disturbing to witness this firsthand...

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How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	toe	09/30/04 02:31 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	michie	09/30/04 05:35 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	astrophel2	10/01/04 08:35 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	Opie_Yates	10/01/04 10:25 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	pecan	10/01/04 09:20 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	toe	10/01/04 10:32 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	barett	10/31/04 12:22 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	pecan	10/01/04 10:46 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	ellen1	10/01/04 12:00 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	pecan	10/01/04 01:06 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	astrophel2	10/01/04 01:13 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	pecan	10/01/04 01:18 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	jsumner	10/01/04 02:06 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	toe	10/02/04 02:01 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	toe	10/31/04 03:08 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	rockystuart	10/31/04 04:50 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	sunflower29	10/01/04 03:01 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	astrophel2	10/01/04 12:52 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	domain	09/30/04 06:46 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	toe	09/30/04 02:11 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	neonsign2003	10/31/04 05:37 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	FyErMoN	10/31/04 07:07 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	yawkaw3	10/31/04 12:36 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	neonsign2003	10/31/04 02:52 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	toe	10/31/04 02:24 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	sherm8	11/17/04 06:27 AM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	mykidsmother	10/31/04 04:41 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	mykidsmother	10/31/04 04:44 PM
Re: How do I admit myself to a psych unit on Medicaid?	cleo911	09/30/04 03:15 PM

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