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[Keeping Myself Safe] Updates from Gippy Sock Jail

So I came here after developing the Big Sad over the last 6 months. The level of care here is really amazing, I will basically only go to Northwestern for medical care from now on. The facility is really nice and I have my own personal nurse.

I am friends with a train who is actually NOT mentally ill (she had a bad reaction to marijuana) and an older gay socialite who is obsessed with me. The socialite makes sure everyone knows he's "very well known in the city", is in the social pages, etc. He's constantly name dropping people I've never fricking heard of as if I should know who they are lol Everyone is pretty cool.

My days are basically either recreational activities (I've made tons of bracelets and things that might be mistaken for "art") or therapy groups + meeting with your psychiatry team, social workers, taking your meds, nurses checking in on you, etc etc.

I did make the world's ugliest bracelet on purpose to give to my sister when I'm out. Because it was made in the psych ward she has to be like, "OMG IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL I LOVE IT THANK YOU!" lol So I'm still trolling from inside okay.

I'm prob going to be here a few more days because they are titrating my meds up. After that I am NOT going home. I am going to enter something called PHP (patient hospitalization program) which is like residential therapy. After that I do IOP intensive outpatient therapy where I might be able to work during the day and go to the hospital in the evening. Details are really sketchy right now, this only just got brought up as an option.

Anyway I hope y'all are doing well. Let me know what's going on in your life.

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Darn psych ward sounds fetch like summer camp for grown-ups. I want to go make friendship bracelets!

Can we order gifts to the ward for you? Or is that forbidden because we might bake an escape file into the pie?

Anyway feel better, FroCho! :@lazarusfrozenlove::@lazarusfrozenlove::@lazarusfrozenlove:

BTW, I'm reading a book you might like: it's called The Disconnect and it's by this Irish woman about how the internet drove her to madness.

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If its a bunch of stunted millennials and zoomers then yea.

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