Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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deleted_user 07/09/2007

Hey all,

How many times were you guys in Psych Wards? What was it like for you? Did it help or make you worse?

deleted_user 07/09/2007

I can't remember the exact number of times I've been in the hospital because of the ECT, however at all times I was treated with dignity and respect. Each time really helped me out and it's the nurses and psyche techs that I have to thank.

deleted_user 07/09/2007

Just once. It is a blur. The medicine they put me on made me a zombie.

On guard to get ready to go again. Waiting for the meds to kick in real good because I DON'T WANT TO GO AGAIN!

shen 07/09/2007

never yet although I almost checked myself in on the fourth of july and was worried I would get carted off yesterday because of meds.

deleted_user 07/09/2007

I was in once it was bad for me because I didn't talk to talk to a doc at all it was all nurse assistants and they couldn't really explain much about my dx or anything plus I am a smoker and they could not let me smoke so that was torture

deleted_user 07/09/2007

I was hospitalised when I was diagnosed, I was so 'High' that I thought I was on the set of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" as all the ingredients and main players were there !! I was there for ten weeks which included Christmas and New Year (-:

It was a positive experience and one I look back on with a certain fondness. I ain't never been back since though - I guess it worked :-)

deleted_user 07/09/2007

went first time last mo. should have been several times but i had this crazy notion of how it was there. i have watched to many old movies.

deleted_user 07/09/2007

I have been in the hospital twice for bipolar once in 1974---in a military hospital--OMG it was horrible!!! and the other time 15 years ago--for hypnotherapy for 10 days-they admitted me because the hynosis was going to be VERY rough on me mentally and they wanted a constant psych monitor---again, very bad experience-never again, thank you!!!

deleted_user 07/09/2007

Loved being there..hated coming home

deleted_user 07/09/2007

4 times. All were good experiences plus I needed to be there. One of the stays I don't remember but about half of it.

deleted_user 07/09/2007

Once following a failed suicide attempt and my mother refused to take me home. In NZ these days you don't wanna get committed into a Psych ward cos you never get out again

deleted_user 07/09/2007

Melasande, I got the impression that NZ was leading the way on mental health - all the mental health adverts are made in NZ.
Is this not the case ?

dobiedots 07/09/2007

Three times and I had fun and met new people. I really liked it.

Unwell 07/09/2007

first time i went was horrible
second time i went wasnt as bad

deleted_user 07/09/2007

once & that was enough!

it was a terrible place...a colorized version of 'the snake pit'

it made me get better in that i never wanted to be hospitalized again so i worked harder at doing what i could to manage this

deleted_user 07/09/2007

they wanted to put me in one after a failed suicide attempt...but i convinced them that i didnt really want to kill myself, and that i was just having a low, and that i was feeling better.....

they let me go home that night...then the next day i tried to jump out of the moving car....maybe i should have let them?

o well.

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