Sheppard Pratt Trauma Unit?

[KatLover93]

Okay so back story: i have bpd, ptsd, and severe anxiety. I’ve been hospitalized short term three times this year (10 times total since I was 13, I’m 25 now). Last stay was oct 2018, I was there 2.5 weeks and I did electro convulsive therapy that time around. It did nothing and my therapist decided that I would benefit from trauma therapy work more than meds or other treatments like ECT. We decided on Sheppard pratt as it’s the only place that takes my insurance.

Anyways, she finished my application this week and on Tuesday spoke to the admissions coordinator who said that I probably won’t be accepted because I’m “not actively suicidal”. However, how can I be both actively suicidal and also have to wait at least 3 weeks for the application to be done and then to wait however long for a bed in SP?

Has anyone had this told to them?

I thought that the way this program worked was that they did the application and if accepted I come from my home to the program but what it seems like is I have to be hospitalized and then transferred to SP when a bed opens?

 

[Orange Phone]

Is this the one she spoke about? My therapist wants me to go too.

The Trauma Disorders Program

This is what the web site said:
We treat patients 18 and older who meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Dangerousness to self or others
• Significant impairment in function due to severe PTSD and/or dissociative symptoms
• Require inpatient consultation and 24-hour monitoring (for our inpatient unit

My therapist has sent people there. She was an intern there at one point I believe. She gave me no indication of that. We shall see. It is in high demand though..

 

[KatLover93]

yes that’s the one. It looks like such a helpful program. What I’m bothered by is the fact that it lists those 3 things as following criteria yet the admissions coordinator said I have to be actively suicidal. That’s only one of 3 things listed so unless my therapist is saying things wrong I don’t understand why they won’t accept me because I do have “significant impairment” from my symptoms, I can’t work, I can’t talk to friends, I can’t drive, I can barely leave my house for my therapy sessions once a week. I thought the point of this program wasn’t the same as short term inpatient stays (get you not suicidal and then send you home) since the process takes such a long time that people would be dead by the time they have a bed for them. It’s just making me feel worse knowing I am asking for help for the first time in my life and they’re saying no you don’t need it

 

[Orange Phone]

Could it be the way your T has presented your situation to them? I really don't know... how much does she know about the program?
My T said that I actually needed to be "stable" to go..

 

[KatLover93]

it may be he way she’s presenting it. She’s only had 2 patients go there despite being a trauma therapist who works in Maryland so it doesn’t seem like it’s a thing she suggests often for her patients