Official Mental Health Thread

[Marie Monday]

Damn. I definitely hoped and assumed the whole system worked a bit better. But to be fair it seems almost impossible to me to find a water-tight way to handle delicate issues like that

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by MarieMarie

Damn. I definitely hoped and assumed the whole system worked a bit better. But to be fair it seems almost impossible to me to find a water-tight way to handle delicate issues like that

By making communication between a patient (or client) and a therapist be entirely confidential no matter what you say and that the therapist can only recommend alternative treatment to the patient, not to the authorities.

I was careful not to threaten anyone or to do anything but I was like I ****ing HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE and crying.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by WWWP

I've been placed on two involuntary holds, all it takes is saying anything that would indicate you might harm yourself or someone else. It's a lot easier to get in than get out.

My first time someone came to my little glass window and said "if you were going to attempt to kill yourself would you tell someone?" and I said "why would I tell anyone?" and that was the wrong answer. They kept me for the whole 72 hours.

The second time they asked me I said "yes of course I would reach out to loved ones for help" and I got out of that in like 18 hours. But then I actually did try to kill myself like that same day and they were onto my game and I now I dont get the benefit of the doubt anymore lol.

I liked when I asked the lady teaching a class what happens when you get too much serotonin (basically a manic episode) and she said she didn't know.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

By making communication between a patient (or client) and a therapist be entirely confidential no matter what you say and that the therapist can only recommend alternative treatment to the patient, not to the authorities.

I was careful not to threaten anyone or to do anything but I was like I ****ing HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE and crying.

They are very very cautious about these things and I think involuntary confinement is a last resort type of thing. Like you have to explicitly say you are going to harm somebody else or yourself. Which is why they always ask if you have a plan which is a very obvious question easy to work around. But you're supposed to answer honestly to get the help you need.

[OccultHawk]

I know something about where you go on involuntary holds here

It’s constant screaming and noise and fear

[Raime]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

It’s constant screaming and noise and fear

This. I was in and out a bunch as a kid, and some places were pretty awful. I think I mentioned this before, but the orderlies would bait kids into episodes so they could choke them out or sedate them. I mentioned how I saw this as a kid to my grandmother, and she told me that she remembers (when she visited me) staff taunting a kid only to dog pile him after he finally flipped out.

[Tristan_Geoff]

Just got out of the hospital from another suicide attempt. Starting a partial hospitalization program and was officially diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Taking things back slowly, I'm doing a lot better now. Some people were making fun of me at work and I let it get to me really quickly. Keeping busy trying to get the new shoegaze band up and running. Met a lot of cool people at the hospital and talked to a lot of friends on the other side. Glad I'm alive still, I have projects to finish. My first vinyl single is coming out soon with my friend Connor and I'm working on a compilation record for my label.

[Tristan_Geoff]

I always get in a place like that and ask where my BPD bitches be at, love me some good backs and forths with my brethren. It's the best support group you'll ever have.

[WWWP]

<3

Take care of yourself. I'm glad you're still here. BPD club 4ever

[goldendoodle]

For those of you who also live in the south, is it even worth it to try and find an outpatient program/commit oneself when suicidal and having an episode? Everything is worse in the south, as we know, and I just have medicaid at the moment, so I'm terrified of ending up in some horrific state mental hospital if things ever get too bad. I always isolate instead of committing myself even when I should definitely be committed. I'm amazed that I'm not dead. Also has anyone else failed to get a solid diagnosis? Every doctor I've seen had a different opinion (bipolar II, BPD, PTSD+OCD, PTSD+BPD) so it feels pointless to join support groups for specific disorders because I simply don't know. It certainly is much more than mere depression. A bit depressed today because I just learned that an old friend (who had type 1 bipolar) died last year.

Anyone else have a mental illness induced bad quarantine haircut? I do! I look terrible!

Originally Posted by Mrs. Tristan Rosenstock

Just got out of the hospital from another suicide attempt. Starting a partial hospitalization program and was officially diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Taking things back slowly, I'm doing a lot better now. Some people were making fun of me at work and I let it get to me really quickly. Keeping busy trying to get the new shoegaze band up and running. Met a lot of cool people at the hospital and talked to a lot of friends on the other side. Glad I'm alive still, I have projects to finish. My first vinyl single is coming out soon with my friend Connor and I'm working on a compilation record for my label.

Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear about your suicide attempt (I've been in similar predicaments over the past couple years) but I'm glad you've found a good support group. (NOT having any friends with the same mental illness is terrible. It's so much easier to explain oneself when you do. It's a nightmare otherwise-- after an episode or something, I mean.)