Postpartum Depression
"There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. So love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living."
In Patient Treatment Center?
Hi Ladies,
This might be odd to ask but has anyone been to an in patient treatment center for depression? If you have what was it like?
I have prenatal depression and just broke up with my boyfriend. I have started to see a therapist on a weekly basis and I have an appointment tomorrow with a psychiatrist who specializes in treating pre and postpartum depression. But it has made me so sick, I barely eat and have even lost weight, I cant sleep, I have a constant headache, all I do is cry and the list goes on and on.
I am going to ask the doctor tomorrow because part of me thinks going away would help me focus just on me and it might make it easier to deal with everything.
"There comes a time in life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. So love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living."
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Re: In Patient Treatment Center?
You may not check this post anymore but I was in an In patient treatment centre for an eating disorder/depression not long ago. I was there for 6 months and quite honestly it did help me quite a bit. I am able to live my life somewhat normally now, with just a few episodes of depression now and then and even then they are nothing like they used to be. I would never want to go there again, it was a hard way to live and I had no personal space or freedom. I was locked in a unit everyday all day long and was only allowed out to go for walks with a nurse, it was not fun. I couldn't even use the bathroom alone.
I would talk to your psychiatrist about it, I am not sure what it is like in the USA for getting in to treatment centres but I do know that you have to be pretty sick and most likely suicidal to be put into inpatient treatment. They may consider it since you are pregnant and are having trouble with eating and depression.