Posted by B2chica on May 28, 2009, at 12:44:58
In reply to Re: Ever Been In An 'Intensive Outpatient Program', posted by Jayy on May 25, 2009, at 17:16:03
i've been in an "outpatient" tx program from our hospital a few years ago for about two or three weeks, can't remember now.
ours was from 8:30-3:30. which made it equivalant to hospital treatment except that we could leave at the end of the day.
and wow 20-25?! yes i don't have SP and that would freak me out. i think our max was maybe 12?-yes it was almost all group therapy, but you could request one on one. and if they thought you needed it they would continue it while you were there.
-However, we did see our pdoc everyday. it was for probably only about 20 min. but basically they are monitoring meds.
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did it help me? well, yes but only in that i entered it after my first hospital stay (that lasted just over 2 weeks). i actually had big issues with going straight home and going to that day program helped me greatly (not that itself helped me much) but having a place to be and keeping very active during the day, not having to stress with work, co-workers or family during the day helped TREMENDOUSLY.so, maybe you can look at your upcoming experience like that? see if you can do it for only a couple weeks. and do your best to hang on. though i am especially suprised that if they plan on tweeking your meds that they don't plan on daily or every other day visits from pdoc???
but anyway.
i do think group actually is a good idea for you, but 1) you should start off with 1 on 1 therapy or co-occuring therapies do well, help you deal with the stress and reactions to group thearpy. 2) you should be in a group with Others with SP as well. Otherwise (as i've found out) group therapy is void and null if you don't share much with the others.*******
best wishes to you Jayy.
b2c.
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