Hospitalization

Involuntarily Committed: Days 8 to 10

by DPK August 31, 2010Depression

Thanks for coming back! We have a great community here, and I encourage everyone to comment and to share their motivational stories of glory! Day eight dawned like the previous seven, waking up early and drinking non-caffeinated coffee for an hour or two while trying to focus and read an Adrian McKinty book I had [...]

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Involuntarily Committed: Days Three to Seven

by DPK August 22, 2010Featured

In retrospect it’s difficult to remember exactly what was going through my mind in the wee hours of the next morning when I continually called K on her cell as she drove home, alternately pleading with her and yelling at her to come back to my house. Needless to say it was psychotic mania. My [...]

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Day Two: Involuntarily Committed

by DPK August 15, 2010Featured

Day two of my stay in the locked ward dawned bright and brilliant. I was awake by 4:30, still feeling manic despite the antipsychotic meds and lithium the doctor had been administering to me at night. “Now what do I do?” I thought. “Another 3 days here and I can’t even have a cup of [...]

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Day One: Involuntarily Committed

by DPK August 8, 2010Hospitalization

Snorting Adderall…I don’t recommend it. That’s what got me in trouble this time. Staying up for days at a time, not taking my risperidal to calm down at night. Self-medicating with weed and herbal incense and klonipin & even buying MORE Adderall then what I’m prescribed. Oh yeah, and the percosets & Xanax and tequila… [...]

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Involuntarily Committed: My 12-Day Psych Ward Odyssey

by DPK August 5, 2010Hospitalization

Dear Readers, I have been away for far too long from my home, my friends, my blog… Reason? I was recently involuntarily committed to the local “Behavioral Health” facility after a particularly nasty bout of hypomania that unfortunately blossomed into full-blown psychotic mania. My lovely bipolar disorder, manic-depression, whatever you want to call it. I [...]

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