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Outpatient Facility and Mixed States

I need your opinion. I feel desperate. Do you think an outpatient facility can help if you have dysphoric mania (mixed states). I might go in two days and am second guessing myself. With the sate I'm in I just don't know if it will help. I just got over a few boughts of sucidal days happening for 3 days and then  again a week later it happened. I almost went to the hospital but was afraid of the meds they would give me. I have had it with meds. I could write a book on how awful my body responds to meds. I can tolerate lithium but I cycle a lot. I am at the highest dose I am allowed. Has anyone experienced my situation or have an opinion?  I have had to correct so many errors in writing this, I'm just not all there. What do you think?


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Thank you very much.
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Wishing you the best of luck.
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Thank you for your responses. I have decided to go. I start tomorrow.
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I forgot to say that I refused meds. When I refused, they tried gin to get me to take them. When I refused, the doctor just asked me why I wouldn't take them and tried to convince me to take them. In the end, I still didn't take them, and what they did was call and consult my doctor. That was all they did. My meds didn't change. Time, therapy and a safe place where people watched e was all I needed.
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They focus mainly on CBT and DBT or a mixture of both in group theraphy these days. When people go in with a hard time thinking, they spend a lot of time watching and evaluating you, especially when you are suicidal. Two days only is considered  outpatient. Once they assess and evaluate  you, they will recommend a treatment plan and ask you for goals and what you intend to get out of the program at some point during the day and go over a plan how to manage care at home as part of the discharge planning.

When you land in the hospital involuntarily, they are still required to have you consent to meds. I was never forced to take meds when I was involuntary.


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It's probably better than nothing, especially if it's an intensive outpatient program.  And in that, you have the option to refuse meds that go down poorly, which you won't have if you suddenly land in the hospital involuntarily.
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