Hospitalized for ptsd?

[alis]

I'm wondering if anyone has been hospitalized for their ptsd? and what your experience was like and if it helped at all?

A few weeks ago I was involuntary committed for a week and after coming out symptoms have escalated / things seem almost worst in certain aspects in my life? It doesn't make sense as it wasn't as if in the hospital experience anything particularly bad happened, I got along fine with the doctor that was seeing me and such. My overall functioning and being able to work/exist in the world has just plummeted since coming out. At such a loss as what to do. I was plucked out of the world into the fake hospital world where time moves slowly and then plucked right back into the world expected to carry on but be better or work harder at existing..

I was having side effects of medication last week so I went to an emergency psychiatrist meeting and he believed I was in a "mixed state," but I'm not bipolar and have never experienced mania before, but was beginning to become delusional and experience thought patterns that have never happened.. perhaps just a heightened dissociation episode I am not sure.

And now they want to put me on a mood stabilizer because of my huge mood swings. That and more benzos and something else as well... what do you do when functioning as a person becomes so much harder than it should be ?

 

[trying to heal]

I was hospitalised for a month at the beginning of the year as my ptsd symptoms were out of control.
Im glad i went but i do get that whole not feeling like you belong or function right after coming out of the hospital system. My ptsd was a little better after i came out but has since gone back down again but not as bad as i was.

 

[Glara]

What do they actually do when you're in the hospital? Obviously some types of therapy, but what else? What is the advantage to inpatient, other than being able to be kept safe from self harm? I'm just trying to understand the experience.

 

[Becheenorm]

I fight to keep myself from hospitilazion because my two eldest sisters are nurses. Left me feeling with mistrust from them. Both are the eldest of 9. I am the youngest, the eldest was actually a cpn (community psychiatric nurse). Her words - all mental health are nothing but selfish. Think about themselves and no one else. The second oldest (nurse also) in Canada. She was on her way to England and someone was having a heart attack on the plane - her response - Im on holiday. I aint fixing no one.

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

Yes, and more than once, while I did not actual treatment for PTSD until last year, but since a year ago I have been hospitalized and "TREATED" for PTSD specifically.

Before a year ago, I was hospitalized over 50 times, you could say most of those if not all stem from PTSD even though the treatment then did not address my PTSD.

The best hospitalization I have had for PTSD was september 2016, I spent 26 days at Sheppard Pratt Trauma Disorders Unit. Best think I could have ever done in my life, it was a life changer for me. Not only did they know how to deal with my dissociative symptoms, they taught me how to manage my flashbacks and such so I could function again. They also taught me about my PTSD which helps me in my outpatient treatment.

 

[Mach123]

I hope you don't mind my putting this here. I consider this part of my PTSD treatment and being inpatient for my PTSD though you could say it's not. Either way I understand if you don't think it fits. (I'm used to having my stuff moved now lol)

I put myself in a detox which was the beginning of my treatment. (my wife was going to section me) I look at this now as just part of "medication management." I was completely out of control at the time. It was shortly after I got out of there that someone finally told me I had "trauma." Personally I liked the detox. Mostly because I never want to "kick on the couch" again. They give you a handful of pills every few hours and that makes the whole thing so much easier. I learned a lot of really bad stuff while I was in there though. Like my insurance will pay for me to go three times a year lol. In addition to everything else it was "getting an advanced degree in drug abuse." It was also a real hard look at being institutionalized. I'm older, and I didn't know anyone who used drugs except me. That was where I learned which Psych office in my area would prescribe benzos which almost killed me again after I got out. She was treating me for "Bi-Polar" which just meant I ended up with so many pills I needed a bag to carry them around. I had gotten all my pills on the internet before this. Lucky for me I didn't fit in with the detox crowd either, or else I would have been using the detox regularly as a lot of them were. That was 5 years ago. No more prescription psych meds.

 

[Friday]

... what do you do when functioning as a person becomes so much harder than it should be ?

Personally, I've gone with the refuse-to-seek-or-accept-any-help-route, twice. Both times I completely fell apart. Loudly & quietly. Both with the same end result; I lost everything. Homeless, jobless, out of my damn mind, completely non-functional. Which is a stone cold bitch to come back from.

So I can't speak to seeking help, inpatient or otherwise, but I can very definitely speak to not seeking help. Bad jujuj. Wasted years I seriously regret.

 

[alis]

Personally, I've gone with the refuse-to-seek-or-accept-any-help-route, twice. Both times I completely f...

I guess it is true the more deeper into unwellness we get the harder it is to climb out of. I needed to hear that tonight thank you. (Eating disorder relapse means my brain is not functioning as well as it should be. Unfortunately ED brain wants me to avoid the ED ward at any cost, even if that cost is my life. Trying to look at the bigger picture very hard.

Years ago I was in the mindset of refusing any help. Now definitely I have been reaching out a lot for more help but the services offered appear to be either very minimal outpatient (which of course is better than nothing) or hospitalization. I have been trying to find the middle ground between that.

Hospitals are good for stabilization of a crisis for some people. But other times it exacerbates symptoms. (A young non-violent patient I was there with was sectioned and the cops had physically harmed her quite badly, she was manic not suicidal or harming herself.)

And yes, definitely they hand benzos out like candy and having to rely on those medications and finding my tolerance for them increasing a lot isn't great.

My T has been away for a number of weeks and I started using which also isn't great. Went to the ER for the first time for an anxiety induced "Im dying." Quite embarassing. Not the funnest way to spend a Monday night ! I need to stop this before it gets out of hand because semester starts again September.

... that reply was awfully long didn't mean to be I guess I just had to get that out haven't been on this site in a whIle I am sorry