Sexual Assault Right after. did you tell anyone?

[joeylittle]

I hope I don't come across as an ahole now.

No, not at all. I was just interested. Here in the US, a three-month involuntary inpatient stay is a pretty long time and there are typically symptoms that are presenting themselves. It doesn't mean that the person has a mental illness (esp. when the patient is a minor, and in there because their parent or guardian is placing them) - plenty of individuals get misdiagnosed - but that level of care is expensive, and insurance companies aren't always willing to pay for continuing institutionalization without any visible cause. That's all. I'm sure it's (somewhat) different in the UK.

 

[Deleted member 45588]

No, not at all. I was just interested. Here in the US, a three-month involuntary inpatient stay is a pretty long time and there are typically symptoms that are presenting themselves. It doesn't mean that the person has a mental illness (esp. when the patient is a minor, and in there because their parent or guardian is placing them) - plenty of individuals get misdiagnosed - but that level of care is expensive, and insurance companies aren't always willing to pay for continuing institutionalization without any visible cause. That's all. I'm sure it's (somewhat) different in the UK.

Yeah I'm still kind of confused why I was put in. I never really got a diagnosis of a mental illness where you can get psychotic like Schziophrenia or Bipolar, they just kept saying it was ''psychosis'' which kind of confused me a lot. It was an awful experience and they literally came and took me from the house and I didn't feel safe in that institution at all. The police came, an ambulance came, and they literally barged into my house.

 

[Gs172003]

Yeah I'm still kind of confused why I was put in. I never really got a diagnosis of a mental illness...

I don't know what happened to my reply but @Kittengirl I'm sorry that happened to you

 

[lookingfor help]

No. I numbed it out and tried to carry on like everything was normal. I just waited to hear from him again, just spent the day watching my phone waiting for him to text me. He’d asked if I was free right after and promised to come see me the next day. I haven’t seen or heard from him since the day he did what he did.

 

[Teasel]

One time I did tell straight after, my best friend, told me she thought I'd asked for it.
Other times I've talked about thing long after they happened and reactions were about as bad as everyone else here has reported.

So incredibly painful.