tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post115601813360394258..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: [Roy] Where have all the psych beds gone?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1156253075278505382006-08-22T09:24:00.000-04:002006-08-22T09:24:00.000-04:00The pic here seems to have disappeared? --dinahThe pic here seems to have disappeared? --dinahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1156222617512664472006-08-22T00:56:00.000-04:002006-08-22T00:56:00.000-04:00There's a severe and worsening bed shortage in Can...There's a severe and worsening bed shortage in Canada too, with no replacement services or facilities to treat those severely and persistently mentally ill who are unable to take care of themselves. Instead mental health, empowerment and self-determination are buzzwords, and the new treatment trend is peer counselling instead of TMS. Which, of course, also saves the system a lot of money.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.mooddisorderscanada.ca/discussions/viewtopic.php?t=772" REL="nofollow">Forum thread on Canadian woes</A>. We're no socialist paradise up here. People are refused care routinely.Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04943949264511919698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1156213024037218182006-08-21T22:17:00.000-04:002006-08-21T22:17:00.000-04:00Love the Network of Care brochure---but where are ...Love the Network of Care brochure---but where are the services??? Only two out of 23 Maryland counties are listed.ClinkShrinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13316134491751195651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1156206192957309222006-08-21T20:23:00.000-04:002006-08-21T20:23:00.000-04:00Uh oh. Surplus money = every other possible and n...Uh oh. Surplus money = every other possible and not possible agency, interest, etc. is going to want a piece of that surplus pie . . .Sarebearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09208596053319110470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1156170513620752012006-08-21T10:28:00.000-04:002006-08-21T10:28:00.000-04:00Re: New Orleans, I believe there are 20 beds (down...Re: New Orleans, I believe there are 20 beds (down from 300 post Katrina, serving half the pre-storm population). Good article, though very disheartening, about mental health issues in NOLA:<BR/>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1221982,00.htmlDinahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09227988351623862689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1156041047754576392006-08-19T22:30:00.000-04:002006-08-19T22:30:00.000-04:00My first stay in a psych unit was because of my ve...My first stay in a psych unit was because of my very sersious suicide attempt that had me on a ventilator in the ICU. The second time I was admitted it was because I had thoughts of suicide with a plan and the means... I was so scared they wouldn't admit me, I wanted to get better, the on call psychologist wanted me to go home, but the psychiatrist from the psych floor said it would be a good idea to admit me. <BR/><BR/>Funny thing though, the psych unit I was on had 13 beds. We are the smallest psych unit around. The most people there when I was there was 8, and that was only for a couple of days. <BR/><BR/>The largest psych unit, around ended up getting filled during my first stay, and then soon the second largest was filled, and even though we aren't the next largest we were a lot of times closer than the other ones... and the nurses were scared we were going to get a bunch of new admissions, we got none!<BR/><BR/>So I guess I never realized there was this sort of problem.Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17333755536653590139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1156032210335609772006-08-19T20:03:00.000-04:002006-08-19T20:03:00.000-04:00that should read: "(not to say malingerers AREN'T ...that should read: "(not to say malingerers AREN'T sick..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1156032151528486702006-08-19T20:02:00.000-04:002006-08-19T20:02:00.000-04:00"The definition of a "medically necessary" admissi..."The definition of a "medically necessary" admission has been so eroded that currently you pretty much have to threaten suicide to gain inpatient psychiatric hospitalization."<BR/><BR/>Here where I work (PA), suicidal ideation sometimes doesn't even get you in. We have plenty of folks who threaten suicide in order to get a bed and food, so our job also becomes that of "lie detector." There definitely are shortages of psych beds where I work and admitting malingerers steals beds from more legitimate patients (not to say that malingerers are sick; of course, they are, they're just likely not as acute).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com