Something I struggled with when i came out of IP the first time was the expectation by everyone around me that I was somehow "fixed" by the IP stay. I had never even been in a hospital for a physical illness at that time, let alone something MH related........ It was hard for myself and others to understand that IP was a crisis intervention, a starting point for years of recovery, which would be up and down and at times quite ugly. I struggled for a long time to be "real" because others expected me to be well again, and I was afraid to show that I wasn't there yet.... hence more secrecy and further destruction.
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