Psychiatry
Gruenberg
23-08-2005, 20:11
I have been officially discharged (at last) - so presumably I am now officially sane again. Anyone else ever had any experiences with psychiatric medicine, or counselling, or anything of that kind?
I have been officially discharged (at last) - so presumably I am now officially sane again. Anyone else ever had any experiences with psychiatric medicine, or counselling, or anything of that kind?
My wife is a multiple-times hospitalized BiPolar-I patient with concomitant Schitzo-Affective disorder, stress induced OCD and Paranoid psychosis. :eek: :(
What do you want to know?
Pure Metal
23-08-2005, 20:50
no but i wouldn't mind getting some councelling...
Frangland
23-08-2005, 20:53
well, not psychiatric... psychological
i had a bad break-up with a girl in college so went to get it off my chest in front of a shrink... he said i was fine, just had to heal.
Suzopolis
23-08-2005, 20:59
i'm on quite a bit of medication for severe chronic depression and panic disorder and have weekly therapy sessions. it would cost three times my rent per month if i didn't have insurance, but thankfully i do, because without it i'd likely not be on this worldly plane. i've never been admitted to a facility, but my husband did work in a state hospital for some time and i was familliar with the patients and procedures...like syniks said, why do you ask?
Gruenberg
23-08-2005, 21:15
I was just generally interested to see how many other NSers had has any sort of experience of psychiatric help etc.
Sometimes you just need someone to vent at who isn't gonna hold it against you. I have a psychologist who I've seen from time to time when things got rough, and he's always provided good advice.
Until two weeks ago, I was still taking therapy and medication.
The Downmarching Void
23-08-2005, 21:19
yeah, I have Bipolar Disorder. Went undiagnosed and untreated until I was 29. Made for much hell in my life.
More than I ever want to think about, although vicarious for the most part. As for whether or not you are officially sane or not, or ever were officially otherwise, that is an entirely different question. I had a girlfriend once who involuntarily commited as an emminent threat to herself (suicidal), half an hour after a psych examined her and confirmed it she set her bed (well the hospital's bed as is important) on fire and lay down in it, about 5 mins afterwards she was given medical treatment against her wished after it was determined she was not mentally competent to refuse treatment. So she was charged with arson for setting the bed on fire (later reduced to destruction of government property). Lo and behold despite the fact that she was an emminent threat to herself and not competent to make medical decisions (or live her life except under observation in a psychiatric hospital) she was sane for the purposes of being criminally responsible for her actions at the time she commited them (apparently she regained sanity in that half hour and lost it the five minutes after setting her bed on fire). Really ticked her shrink off too.
Frangland
23-08-2005, 21:24
yeah, I have Bipolar Disorder. Went undiagnosed and untreated until I was 29. Made for much hell in my life.
sort of a personal question... but i'm wondering about the symptoms:
Is it really like this... that for some part of the day you'll be hyper like you want to vacuum your entire house, then mow the lawn, then dust, etc... just be doing something and doing it quickly... and then other parts of the day you're just somber and don't really feel like doing anything?
Are the manic and depressed phases that clearly cut?