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I need some guidance from those who have gone before me.

My diagnosis is PTSD, Borderline, and DID. My T wants me to enter into in patient work. He is suggesting Sierra Tuscon. Questions:
1) Have any of you been involved with inpatient work? Did it help?
2) Heard of the above facility?
3) Have any recommendations?

Thanks for the guidance.

Danny
 
Danny,

I wish I could be of any help, I have never heard of such the place,and have never spent any 'inpatient' time in therapy, although it came close to that once.

I do also suffer DID, and that can be quite tricky to get under control it seems, so I could see the need for more intensive therapy just for that, let alone the other diagnoses.

I hope that someone with more information and insight can respond to help you more. I will keep you in my thoughts and be wishing you good luck.

Leosha
 
Danny, I did inpatient in a place in Denver. I don't want to discourage you in any way if you feel you need it. It seemed to me that "inpatient" basically served to provide safety. If your parts are causing you to feel unsafe, that's the place to be. But if it's mainly about working on the DID, I'd suggest getting a different therapist. I had a therapist that introduced me to DID, but couldn't handle the reality of it, so she stuffed me in one hospital after another. I think she was just scared of me. The only thing the inpatient did for me was to take me out of my home situation to kind of calm down. I never got any work done or breakthroughs accomplished in there. For one thing, there are a bunch of other people in there and only a few nurses on hand. Like any medical facility, the doctor comes around maybe once a day. The rest of the time we watched TV, spent an hour in group, and tried to earn points (literally) for good behavior so we could go downstairs and exercise.

Only you know how you are doing. If you need the break and a place to focus, inpatient will do that. If you're trying to accomplish something, nothing happens in there that isn't better approached one-on-one with a therapist who understands DID.

I hope this helps. But most importantly, take care of you, OK?
 
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