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Hi :) My hospitalisation is going ok :) there are a lot of rules and regulations I wasn’t aware of. Like, I can’t bring anything with a cord or draw string of any sort etc. Yeah I was suicidal unfortunately. My OCD got so out of control I’ve snowballed into a deep depression. My psychiatrist wants me in hospital for a month minimum. It’s not all bad. I’ve told my work I need at least a month off, and so they’ve got someone to fill in for me until I get back. Legally they can’t fire you for being ill. And I also live a fair distance from the hospital. My family had to drop me off and drive to visit. If I haven’t improved soon my psychiatrist is transferring me to a hospital in Melbourne (Australia), which is a 3 hour flight from my home. Don’t let the thought of hospitalisation worry you. It’s there to help you. We can’t control what happens to us, but we are in control of what we choose to do about it :) All the best!!
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I have been afraid to tell people about my thoughts before I knew what OCD was. I thought for sure I was going to be locked away forever, but once I decided to spill it, they knew exactly what was going on and helped me. I never was hospitalized, as that is a fear of mine too... but therapy worked wonders
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I’m hospitalised at the moment. Maybe I could help somehow? d a i s y
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You are? Were you suicidal? ?
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How is your hospitalization going daisy? CrispyMan- what concerns you? I’ve done partial hospitalization and it was a positive experience
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WorriedDriver: Stigma, I’ll lose my job, I’m already a bad procrastinator so I’ll be even more behind, I don’t have a car, so I’d have to rely on my family to drive me from the hospital, which would be 1-3 hours away... Also the fact that I know I’m not a bad person but have those doubts, you know?
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While yes there is stigma attached, you don’t have to tell anyone that you are at the hospital and if you do you can say you have a chronic condition which has had a complication requiring hospitalization. Your family would much rather drive you to get the help you need feather than have you suffer YEARS in silence. Why would you lose your job? You could tell them you are having a medical problem requiring you to be in the hospital. People do this all the time and don’t get fired.
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@d a i s y — I am proud of you for being so brave and being willing to do the hard things that will help you get better. I’m glad they let you have your cellphone though! It’s hard being out of your comfort zone but the experience is what you make of it. At first I thought I would have nothing in common with the people in my partial program but eventually I got to know them and even though they had different mental illnesses from me we could all come together on some of our common experiences
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When is ocd so bad that someone can’t deal with it on their own? I honestly don’t know if it’s just my brain telling me I can’t deal with it when I really can, but then I start thinking if I tell myself I can deal with it when I really can’t, then I’ll actually loose it. In my mind, my safe haven has been remembering that I can always go to the hospital if I feel so bad. Because I’m so terrified of getting stress induced psychosis because of this extensive fear. I finally start to feel better and then my mind tells me that I have to worry about it to prevent it from happening. Each hour feels draining to get through and I’m terrified of each thoughts possibility that I know I’d feel better if I was hospitalized and kept away from doing potential harm. I go to therapy every other week but I feel like I need every week and actually more than once a week because each day feels hard to get through and it takes forever to get to therapy.
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idk why this is such a recurrent thing for me , I get so scared through the day when I’m not distracted when I think about psychosis. or being put in a mental hospital that it gives me bad anxiety, one time I had a panic attack at the thought of having it 💔 I can’t pin point if it’s intrusive thoughts because it’s a fear of mine .. or not. I think this is the worst thought / fear I have
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I went to internal medicine today, and i'm not perfectly healthy, My liver is a little bit fat, I have to lose weight so thats okay, also I have gallsand, which is not gallstone yet but it can become that if its not treated. Now im like these arent big problems but when i heard these I started to overthink and think about the worse that I will have gallstones cause the doctor said I have it cause it runs in my family(my mother/grandmother and uncle had it) and I just think that it wont go away, and even if i doesn I will be worried all year if it came back. Im just so afraid. Also they said I should go get a blood check, but I said i will hesitate now cause last time i almost fainted and felt horrible the whole day, and now i hear from people i know that they went and they felt sick and vomited there. But the overthinking comes from me thinking if these little symptoms I experienced which I thought its because of anxiety, was because of health issues then the other symptoms I experience sometimes (headache and lightheadedness) are there cause of another health issue, and im worrying about my health, im afraid of death, i keep imagining myself if they tell me that i have terminal illness or something really bad and i dont know how to handle it. Now i feel nausea and i would say its because of stress but i keep thinking that its because of the health issues I have...I don't know how to handle this fear, if you ask others or therapists, they will say "yeah everyone is afraid of death and suffering" or "Try to think about something else" and i wont pay for advices like this...
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