well, generally if you're not a danger to yourself or others, or in severe psychosis, you probably won't be admitted.

i like to think in-patient is a `last measure' type of thing, and can usually find a better method to address what ails me 99% of the time.

talk to your psychiatrist. ask about all your options. glad you're slowly coming back from that awful dark place, and i wish you much healing.

I think before you go inpatient, you should talk to your Pdoc and see if there are better options.
Maybe a change in meds might help pull you the rest of the way out of your depression.

I'm sorry you got hit with that, but I'm glad you're doing somewhat better now!!!

Good luck!!! I hope you're feeling all the way better, soon!!!

(((((Hugs)))))

I was thinking of checking in because my Pdoc and backup Pdoc are on vacation and have not responded to me.

oh, and i had stopped taking my meds these 2 weeks. its 6 am and I still haven't slept. i really need to get back on track asap, im so behind at college.

I have found that not following medical advise re medications just sends me back to square one again ..
I know I need my meds in order to stay stable.. I'm guessing this may well be why you're not sleeping.. eating right etc...
Is someone taking calls for your pdoc??

my meds are my safe haven.
im arranging to find someone else to help.

thank you all for the advice! :)

Well, I have been bp since I was 16 and I am in my 40's. I don't suggest for you to go to a hospital, but I guess it depends which one you go to and in what state you live. Many many yrs ago, I went to a hospital in my state that really tried to help, they had a beautiful place to stay, a pond which you could go to, ducks and deers, it was hugh land, the food was great! It was like a hotel with free stay, since my insurance payed. Now that same place is totally different, the last time I was there, they were very abusive. I have been in several hospitals in which they have been very abusive mentally and emotionally, very very bad treatment, it makes you want to get out of the hospital insteat of getting in, and it seems like a nightmare that does not end. If you go in, research the hospital, so that the same thing that happened to me will not happen to you. In fact, if they had let me get in with phones or some kind of device that can record, I would sew there ass with pleasure, any body knows that screaming from the top of your lungs to a pt is abuse among so many other things. Hope you feel better!

There are a lot of day programs as well captain that may help.. Instead of a hospital admission you go to a hospital program for a few hours each day usually Monday to Friday..x