heya, I have never been IP but from that I would guess it seems to generally be if you are considered not safe. There have been times when I have been to A+E four times in a week for stitches and yet they have only wanted to keep me in once supposedly for a couple of days to sort out sleeping. I think if you are hurting yourself to the extent where you are in danger of doing serious damage or if you try to commit suicide that is when they will put you in, at least on the NHS. Inpatient is usually a last resort as Lotti said, simply because it is so expensive, disruptive to the persons life and is not always helpful.
Having said that my mental health co-ordinator and the crisis team have asked me to get my parents to pay for private IP. I don't know if you have an NHS style system of just private, but generally it is easier to go IP if it's private.
Sorry if that makes no sense. Take care :)
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