Voluntary psych ward admission

[TANETS]

Has anyone in here ever done this before? I feel like I'm going insane sometimes and it's starting to feel unbearable. I'm having an extremely hard time finding a psychiatrist, and therapy sessions are extremely expensive. I can't afford that. I had a chance at state funded therapy years ago when I was still a minor, but I accidentally cut my therapist off (ocd moment). I just need some kind of help, I've heard psych ward horror stories but I'm desperate. It would be nice to be cut off from the rest of the world even temporarily.

 

[whywere]

For me no, both my times in the psych ward were involuntary, BUT at least in my experience, it is truly a flip of the coin, whether one gets a good or not so good psych ward.

My 1st one was horrible, food was at best so so and I had to be in bed with my feet off the floor from 10:30pm till 6am.

the 2nd time was really nice. The food was fantastic, and all the nurses were so darn nice and thoughtful.

But either of the 2 times, I got to meet and become friends with other patients and the wood working classes that I took were so much fun.

Now I live in the U.S. and my private health insurance covered all the costs. The stays were NOT cheap. the 1st time it was for 14 days, and it was over $57,000 (USD), but if you live in a country that has national health insurance, I will say give it a go.

Lots of love and caring thoughts to/for you, my good friend.

Walter

 

[banger12]

Tbh from what I can gather from my own experiences there isn't much difference whether you're voluntary or involuntary. I think the difference is you retain more rights and a bit more control over your care voluntary and have an easier time getting out if you want to leave early.

From my experience, you won't get shit in the way of therapy there but if you need access to a psych immediately for medication or medication adjustments it might help. Be prepared to wait a while in an ER for a room to open up for you on the psych unit. Possibly days. And just because you get treatment on unit doesn't mean you'll have access off unit. Sometimes they offer services to connect you with specialists post-inpatuebt though. But don't expect a lit of time with doctors or care.

Your stay would likely be a couple weeks and being on a unit is a whole experience to put it one way. My experience may not be representative of the general experience, but I have been to a few facilities throughout my life and I wrote a lengthy post on SaSu about it and can find that for you if that might be helpful. Just take what I say with a grain of salt given my bias