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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I'm glad you're feeling better. I've spent a lot of time in those places for what are probably similar reasons.
Everything is generally okay as long as I stay on top of treatment and stuff. But when unmedicated, things can quickly go off the rails.
For what it's worth, you should consider becoming a full soberchad (assuming you arent already).
I don't think it gets talked about enough in the psych world.. that like, to properly diagnose and treat issues you really need to be off everything for a good amount of time.
That way you can tell like what is your actual baseline without any outside stuff interfering with it.
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I've been sober like 3 weeks now! Your comment really touched me. It's wonderful to hear how you have handled it. I definitely am going to do similar.
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Congrats, being sober is the best. The longer you go the easier it gets.
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Happy for you fam. Stick with it, it gets so much better.
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