Did Hospitilization Help Your Bipolar/ Mentally Ill Child?!
Question:
Did Hospitilization Help Your Bipolar/ Mentally Ill Child?
I would appreciate responses from parents who have faced this and decided against it and those who went through with it. What happened to your child was it a good decision or do you regret it?
Answers:
I am bipolar and hospitalization after a suicide attempt is what really brought things into check for me.
The docs kept me for 10 days and told me this could be my life if I didn't take the meds and do what needed to be done to stay healthy (sane). After 10 days of watching the other patients coming and going, fits and attacks -- I was more than ready to strive for a normal life, or as close as I could get to it.
I haven't been back to the nut house and never will be. SCARED STRAIGHT by observation worked for me.
Leslie