Really hope that 24/7 therapy will help me.

The way they use the word “observation” has left something to be desired for me. I think that maybe they wanted to find out what symptoms patients had, and they wanted the patients to be in a safe environment. There was a few therapy sessions each day to stretch, meditate, arts & crafts, group games. And the therapy helped me a lot to learn the names of staff and patients. But (for me) it felt a little like being in a fish bowl.

By observation (here) they are basically waiting for patients’ symptoms to all explode. They know that even if they put patients on a Caribbean Cruise ship, that the patients will eventually flip out. Or not. If not then maybe the patient isn’t really too bad. Or if the patient goes apeshit then the patient will be protected from harm and the pros will be there to document the symptoms since the pros sorta know what they are observing.

Anyway I wanted to wish you luck Engeltje and (for what it’s worth) suggest a couple of things. Here we have foam ear plugs like 50 in a box they keep the sound and noise out so you can sleep. They’re reusable I take 2 out of the box and wear ’em to sleep for a week. But the places I’ve been to “don’t have ’em,” I got a lot of answers like that and I think it’s because they are trying to stress us a little.

I’m babbling. If you want to be able to sleep then bring ear plugs. Bring a few different kinds but the foam squishy ear plugs are really comfortable. If you flip out and go bonkers don’t be afraid. I think that they are trying to learn how bad things are for us, when our symptoms are stronger. That and Best of Luck Engeltje. 🙂

In America I think we usually call it “in patient” care, but in patient status refers to patients’ status in general where we go and stay inside a hospital or health care facility for a while. The boundary is called “admission,” so if we visit an emergency room and someone starts talking about admitting us that probably means we’re talking about staying for days 24/7 until the pro’s dismiss us to “outpatient” care or sometimes “partial hospitalization.”

Most everything that can be done IS preferred to be done by appointments on an outpatient basis. It’s less expensive, the pro’s can help more people and generally patients do not like to stay for days and weeks in patient.

Partial hospitalization is like with severe diabetes, recoveries from cancers or organ transplants, treatment for severe mental illness where the pro’s know that part of a treatment plan for example requires something like 72 hour stays in the hospital once a month.