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?
2007-07-02 07:32:56 · 4 answers · asked by ? 5 in Health ➔ Mental Health
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
2007-07-02 07:42:34 · answer #1 · answered by leslieguelker0517 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was hospitalized 19 yrs ago and diagnosed with bipolar. I was 15 at the time and I stayed 3 months. Best thing that could have happened to me. I got one on one care and meds and watched as i needed watched. I was 15 and my parents could have signed me in and made me stay, but at 15 they allowed me to sign in and decide how long to stay and in 3 months life went on. Only problem with places like that is patients mimik the illnesses of others and you have to have good people around you to know the difference.
2007-07-02 10:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by steelgal 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not a parent, but my wife was once that bipolar kid that had to go the hospital. She got the help she needed to overcome this disease. She is now confident, ambitious, and happily married. Listen to your doctors and go from there. They are the experts. We are not. Good luck!
2007-07-02 07:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i havn't had to face it...but my parents did with me,,,i never had to be hospitalized even though i really needed to be,,,i think its best if you do get them help...my dad didn't want to accept that i had inherited the mental illness of his side of the family it was never spoke of,,,,but when i turned 12 yrs old they knew something wasn't right, so i ended up in outpatient therapy since the age of 12...do what you can do to help...your child may not realize now but later they will understand that you were worried & trying to help....good luck to you & your child it is very very difficult to watch them suffer with this, God bless
2007-07-02 07:44:16 · answer #4 · answered by yahooligan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋