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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 178930" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>I found inpatient stays to be really hit or miss, it all depended on the psychiatrist assigned to my difficult child. Many of the units are understaffed and the staff overworked, and I'm not surprised they got your difficult child mixed up with someone else. </p><p></p><p>As for the bandaid fix, that's right on. The goal of many (most?) inpatient stays is to "stabilize." I found this to be almost exclusively a term used for the convenience of the insurance companies; i.e., once they're no longer an <strong>immediate</strong> danger to themselves or others, out the door they go. On more than one occasion, this decision was communicated to me with a phone call saying, "she's being discharged today! When can you come get her?" with no discharge planning whatsoever.</p><p></p><p>I found that if I had a psychiatrist willing to work with me, to <strong>listen</strong> to me, and to give the insurance folks the right words to keep my difficult child where she was until *I* was comfortable with her coming home, it made all the difference. Only a handful of times did I find a doctor like that, unfortunately (both my difficult children were hospitalized multiple times at multipal local hospitals). Those were the times a difficult child stayed out of the hospital longer, and stayed stable for longer. I'm not saying I in anyway was able to dictate how long she stayed, but I had some input as to my comfort level with her coming home, and what I was concerned about.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.. I know it's frustrating!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 178930, member: 1157"] I found inpatient stays to be really hit or miss, it all depended on the psychiatrist assigned to my difficult child. Many of the units are understaffed and the staff overworked, and I'm not surprised they got your difficult child mixed up with someone else. As for the bandaid fix, that's right on. The goal of many (most?) inpatient stays is to "stabilize." I found this to be almost exclusively a term used for the convenience of the insurance companies; i.e., once they're no longer an [b]immediate[/b] danger to themselves or others, out the door they go. On more than one occasion, this decision was communicated to me with a phone call saying, "she's being discharged today! When can you come get her?" with no discharge planning whatsoever. I found that if I had a psychiatrist willing to work with me, to [b]listen[/b] to me, and to give the insurance folks the right words to keep my difficult child where she was until *I* was comfortable with her coming home, it made all the difference. Only a handful of times did I find a doctor like that, unfortunately (both my difficult children were hospitalized multiple times at multipal local hospitals). Those were the times a difficult child stayed out of the hospital longer, and stayed stable for longer. I'm not saying I in anyway was able to dictate how long she stayed, but I had some input as to my comfort level with her coming home, and what I was concerned about. Good luck.. I know it's frustrating! [/QUOTE]
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