5 Signs Someone's Depression Calls for Inpatient Care

In this video, a neuropsychologist explains 5 signs your depression may call for inpatient care.

Depression can be debilitating, and the signs of depression aren't always easy to spot. Even once you spot them, what if treatment isn't helping the symptoms? Sometimes clinical depression calls for more than just the standard medication or therapy.

If you're depressed, or if you're suffering from a condition with depression symptoms like bipolar disorder or anxiety, this interview will help you figure out if a higher level of mental health care might benefit you.

Research shows that the majority of people who undergo either inpatient or outpatient care for a mental illness return to functional and hope-filled lives. A structured treatment program provides a path toward recovery.

Check out the MedCircle original series on Inpatient Vs. Outpatient Care - it sheds light on which of those paths is right for you or your loved one.

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[kossie]

Sometimes the smartest people are the most depressive ones. The overthinkers in my opinion

[justindixon]

I was put into a temporary "ward" for a suicide threat. It was one of the worst experiences of my life. Was treated horribly and so was everyone else there. It felt like a prison and ended up making things much worse.

[bunsenn]

The truth is, many mental hospitals don’t really treat patients. They just keep them there until they’re no longer dubbed a threat to themselves or others. They don’t actually treat your illness, they just sedate you until you’re not dangerous. I experienced this first-hand and watched it happen to others. Maybe mental hospitals wouldn’t be so stigmatized if they actually helped people.

[emilywilhite]

My mom committed suicide in 2019. She had done two different stays in an institution and she hated it, said it was like being in jail, and made her worse.

[orourkeb]

In the last 5 years I had suicidal thoughts as well as 2 official attempts.
Turned out I was not only dealing with my own severe depressive disorder as well as my generalized Anxiety disorder, I was being psychologically abused.
It's not easy to go in to an emergency room and look at the triage nurse and say you are having suicidal thoughts!!
No one wants to admit that they cannot "manage their life" like a "normal person"
However my 2 kids?
10&13?
Still have a mom.

[babycats]

I feel zero love. My life feels grey, dull, and "nothing".

[damiontaylor]

I’m a fire fighter paramedic who was diagnosed with ptsd and major depression after a few calls that involved children. I went down hill fast started drinking heavily, lost all hope for my life and just wanted to unalive my self.about 2 years later it’s still a work in progress meds didn’t work, so I symbolically “ended who I was” changed my job, lost 100 lbs my outlooks are different my morals are different who I was before that is gone and honestly I like who I am now more. Recovery is possible. Stay strong everyone and keep pushing to get your mind back!

[mrtwister]

Some of us don't have the option of inpatient care. Living paycheck to paycheck, taking a time out is not an option. Depression doesn't stop the bills from coming in.

[PippyLongsqueaking]

I stayed a few weeks in a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. My experience wasn’t great, and I didn’t find any help. It just felt like a daycare for people who couldn’t be trusted to take care of themselves. I’m happy to see some people in the comments found help, though.

[penquinofdeath]

How do you seek a higher level of care when you know the cost of it will damage your life after?

[dianadominguez]

When he said “ just remember that whatever your going through you got this” I just broke down because I see no hope in my depression to get better

[blackliver]

Protip: don't go into inpatient. They'll belittle your thoughts about why you want it to end. They'll be callous. You'll be around a variety of unstable patients of different and possibly harmful behaviors. You'll count the days of wanting to leave or just wanting to die more for feeling guilty

[alicep]

I volunterily went into a mental health hospital because I was feeling suicidal. I was treated like I had the plague, the staff were extremely disrespectful towards me and inconsiderate. It took them 3 days to give me my iron pills despite knowing that they were needed, because I had 3 blood transfusions. They tried putting me on antipsychotics even though I have depression and anxiety.

[eggnt]

too bad America doesn’t have universal health care... would rather just try my best to ignore my suicidal thoughts than be in thousands of dollars of debt which will make the issue worse anyways

[laurzee]

In my humble opinion, PHP (partial hospitalization plan, which means you go for 4 hours a day, 5 days a week) and IOP (intensive outpatient plan, which is like 3 hours 2 or 3 days a week) is much better than inpatient. I've been in all 3, and PHP and IOP were much more helpful than inpatient. I do think inpatient behavioral hospital stays feel like jail. They make you feel like you are a criminal for being mentally ill.

[KILLINHOESZ]

My experience with behavioral hospitals felt like a punishment, so I just held it all in afterwards.

[NiaPgn]

It was disgusting and no one was treated with dignity. I was stuck in a chair in a waiting room for more than 24 hrs with one kid detoxing and passing gas, sweating, shaking next to me and another woman’s wound open through her stitches. She had slice up both her arms deeply. No one care or offered anything and acted like we were just there for attention. This was at Strong Hospital in Rochester NY.

[ant]

@1:54 but WHERE do we find this higher level of care? WHERE?? Theres no inpatient clinic striclty for depression, they always lump it together with a bunch of other conditions

[CasualProPlayer]

The problem is that there are many who confuse depression with being sad, frustrated and/or mad... I have been suffering for depression for so long now... Depression is like a numbness on your feelings, when you're happy is like you are not there, and you when are sad is like that's the real you, is like there is nothing that makes you feel more alive than feeling pain, is like the love is not there, you can only feel whole and you feel empty, you forget how to feel good, and the more you go deep into the abyss of sorrow and death is when you start feeling more alive, I have been trying to find my way out of this, but I cannot, I have been thinking to kill my self too, but I am weak... I tried pills, tried everything but I feel like I am a loosen piece on this world... I know far too well the pain of being born into this world... thank you if you stopped to learn about me...

[PeculiarKatreen]

The camera angle almost reflects how depression distances you from others and turns you into observer. Funny. Was this intentional?