When To Consider Hospitalization?

[deer_in_headlights]

Fantastic, fantastic advice @joeylittle !

It's amazing how quickly specialized trauma units can accommodate you, @Carmen23.
All it takes is a few calls, then picking the one you feel most comfortable with, as they check with your insurance.

Joeylittle's advice is very, very good - getting you into the best PTSD-oriented, specialized treatment, without being in the same hospital where your boyfriend works. Our local hospital just warehouses patients, without effective treatment. I don't know if yours would be similar. Getting into a facility where they understand PTSD would be the best use of your time and money; and the safest since their protection and treatment would be in line with your needs.

Please be safe - you matter, you are important, even if you don't believe it in this time of overwhelm. Your life is very important!
My heart is with you,
Deer

 

[Deleted member 31203]

If I worked in a hospital and I knew that my girlfriend was suffering from PTSD, I would not be judgmen...

Thanks, my boyfriend is not the judgmental one...but me :(. He has assured me it wouldn't bother him and that what matters is keeping me alive and we can continue our life together for years to come. But I just know that if/when I saw him there I would feel overwhelmed with bad emotions. I would just want to go home with him and hug him and have dinner with him like we have every night for over a year.

Also, thank you for sharing your story about the uni student you know. That really helps knowing I'm by no means the only student whose PTSD is causing problems with school.

 

[Deleted member 31203]

Thank you all for the replies and support!

 

[Changing4Best]

I've attempted suicide once and did not tell a soul I planned to do it, just did it. I was unconscious for 10 days in the Hospital and finally came to. I ended up staying in the Hospital for a long time afterward. My advice to you is to avoid that at all costs. Your condition and all its symptoms are alarm bells enough for me to advise you to seek hospitalization at once. Is there another hospital available than the one your husband works in? I'd advise going to one where he is not an employee. The complications to do with his being in the same hospital seem to me to be enough to guide you to another hospital.

Also, please take joeylittle's advice.

 

[laurainalameda]

If you can't get into a trauma program, and since it's the weekend I assume you cant, go to the ER. Perhaps you can transfer hospitals at some point. Really. Go to er.