What meds have you taken? Make sure to take your meds....have someone come to watch you...a good friend or family member. If you need to go to the hospital though...you need to go. Do what will take care of you.

I talk to my support network about how I'm feeling. I try and relax. Let my shoulders drop and untense my neck. Then breathe.

If you need to go in- go in. it's not a sign of failure on your part. It's just one of those things we have to do from time to time.

Yes..Try taking deep breaths if it hurts too much.

If you could just realize that any other problems in your life that you have been worrying about arent really that bad. They can be solved later. As long as you are alive and breathing any other problems except the hurt arent important enough to allow them to affect you. Let them fall away. Shed your burdens. There is nothing more important than your happiness. Screw the rest. Screw the world.

You are the most important person in the universe. Its all about you. You deserve to be happy. Sometimes I have to fight myself for happiness and survival. Im not going to let anyone beat me. Not even me.

I think that going to hospital may be the best thing for you. Whether we enjoy the experience or hate it, it's a safe environment that we can take some good from. When I started my 6th hospitalization I realized that this was no way to live and I was motivated to change my life for the better. My motivation and lithium has done wonders for my life and I wish you the same experience.