Long Term Psychiatric Care Disorders?

Question

I'm actually working on research for a project at college, and I am currently looking for a variety of disorders that would require long term psychiatric care in an at least medium security facility. If you want to throw in a couple of shorter term disorders, I can use some of those, too, but i would appreciate a greater concentration on longer term care. If you don't know exactly what the disorder means or what it entails, thats fine. I would just like a list of conditions to look into.
Thanks, I appreciate the help.

Answer 1

I would go to the website I listed below. IMO psychiatric disorders that require long term care in an actual facility has more to do with how progressive the disease has become. Some psychiatric disorders if left untreated become progressively worse and require a series of hospitalizations to stabilize the patient, when an "episode" occurs in the affected person's life. Examples I can think of are all forms of Schizophrenia, Major Depressive Disorder, and Bi-polar disorders. Even some of the personality disorders such as a Borderline could fall into this category, as well as some of the Addictive disorders.

If you go to the site I listed below it will categorize everything for you and make your research a bit easier. You can isolate a disorder, read the brief the description, and then place the term in your search engine for a more comprehensive analysis of the condition.

Answer 2

It's not so much the condition, but the severity. There are lots of folks walking about with depression who aren't hospitalized, yet if it is severe, they may wind up in long term care. Anxiety typically doesn't lead to long term care - or anxiety disorders - but if acute people may want to be hospitalized to get stable (PTSD, OCD, GAD).

Bi-polar, borderline, schizophrenia can all require long term care. Alzheimer's too.

I think you might want to differentiate as well because there are disorders which require long term care and the patients won't necessarily be "healed" but the goal is to stabilize.

Then there are those disorders where active work is done to really "heal" the patient and they likely won't need to go back to the hospital. Dissociative Identity Disorder can require long term care but once the person has completed treatment, they generally don't need to go back to the hospital. Eating disorders can be another illness that will require long term care (I'm thinking up to a year) but the person may not need to return.

So, you have two categories I would think - requiring long term psychiatric care to stabilize and requiring long term psychiatric care to "heal."

Good luck!

Answer 3

TBD

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