Suicide Watch/Psych Wards - Please help?!
Question: I'm 15 & I suffer from a mood disorder/severe depression & IBS (diagnosed 4yrs ago). I'm also severely bulimic. I see a therapist weekly, & I've had suicide thoughts and attempts before, but recently I've been seriously considering suicide, like planning it down to the last detail. Please dont try & talk me out of it btw.
I want to do it, but my best friend (who knows about everything) said that maybe if I expressed just how serious I am to my therapist, I could possibly be admitted to a psych ward or something, I dont really know about these things, but for her, I want to investigate. She also thought that if I was, it would help most of my problem is home and school life, so getting away from that might help.
I wondered then if they would do this? Obviously it would depend on the circumstances, but does it happen? Can anyone give me some more information please? This is my last chance to try & fix my life because if they wont admit me to a ward, I'll give up. Please help me.
Answers: I'm 15 & I suffer from a mood disorder/severe depression & IBS (diagnosed 4yrs ago). I'm also severely bulimic. I see a therapist weekly, & I've had suicide thoughts and attempts before, but recently I've been seriously considering suicide, like planning it down to the last detail. Please dont try & talk me out of it btw.
I want to do it, but my best friend (who knows about everything) said that maybe if I expressed just how serious I am to my therapist, I could possibly be admitted to a psych ward or something, I dont really know about these things, but for her, I want to investigate. She also thought that if I was, it would help most of my problem is home and school life, so getting away from that might help.
I wondered then if they would do this? Obviously it would depend on the circumstances, but does it happen? Can anyone give me some more information please? This is my last chance to try & fix my life because if they wont admit me to a ward, I'll give up. Please help me.
I've been on a psych ward six times due to my suicidal thoughts and self harm thoughts.
The point of being there is to prevent you from harming yourself. Once safety is established they will take action on the fronts of talk therapy, group therapy, family therapy, patient education, and medicine.
After you are considered stable, have a course of treatment and a support plan and safety plan you'll be let out again with follow up appointments with your outside doctors and talk therapist. You may also be put int a partial hospitalization program where you continue your hospital activities during the day but get to go home to sleep.
By the way all you have to do is call 1-800-Suicide to have someone to talk to at any time. All you have to do is show up at an ER and say you are suicidal to start the treatment process.
Edit: Average stay lengths vary according to your safety level and the confidence of the staff that you will not go out and immediately harm yourself if released. Shortest stay I ever saw was an overnight stay by one patient--however they had a medicine imbalance that was easily addressed. Longest stay I have witnessed was several weeks for a very persistent deep depression where person started off not even eating. Average stay length I would say is something like 3 to 10 days.
If you tell them you plan on doing harm to yourself RIGHT NOW... then they will take you into inpatient care.
I am telling you, tell your mom or doctor that you want to die RIGHT NOW...
The reason they do that is so that they can get you help... I was under watch for a little while, and went off the deep end...
Sometimes insurance will only pay for inpatient when it is DIRE, so this right now is your best chance at getting help.
Always remember though, you are loved. Don't know you, but I CARE. I LOVE YOU. Don't die.
no they wouldent do that they need to no fast as you could do something silly which really isnt your fault there there to help you if you dont tall them you will just get worse they will only help you not make anything worse honest i told my doctor i was gonna kill myself i didnt get put in a syco ward ect its just stuiped talk thats all good luck and hope you live
Hey.
I would definitely speak with someone about this immediately. Don't listen to the other people saying you can get in if you "attempt" it. Don't do that. I like Virginia E.'s answer. If you want to talk, email me. I know what your going through and its seems so overwhelming all the time. But don't give up!
dont give up
therapists are clueless it seems. i basically had to jump up and down on the couch to make her understand the first time around so if thats what you have to do, do it. psych wards arent that bad they basically take all the responsibility away and all you have to do is focus on getting better and keep yourself safe and the people there are really nice staff and patents.
if you tell your therapist, they have to take certain actions by law.
technically, they can hold you 72 hours even if you dont want to.
if you or your parents commit you however, it could be much longer.
Fine, I won't try and talk you out of it. Go ahead and do it. Noone will miss you anyway. That's why you have to come on Yahoo! Answers to talk about your problems, because everyone in the real world is sick of hearing about them. Grow up, noone likes a sissy.