Alright, sorry for the extreme lack of journal updatage and comment-ness. I've had an unfathomably rotten past couple of weeks, but it's finally calmed down long enough for me to talk about it. So here goes.....
My dear friend/ex-fiance has been in-and-out of psych wards for the past month, which has ofcourse been depressing all around. But last weekend she was discharged from one hospital and went back to her Independent Living Facility for about 24 hours before running away and going missing on the streets for three days. On the third day she was finally spotted by her mother's ex-cop friend who took her to his home, fed her and got her cleaned up.
So both her and my family went there to intervene, and after about a half hour of her and I silently hugging we finally asked her why the fuck she made us all worry and she announced that she believed her room-mates were trying to kill her. Obviously she had not improved, so we drove her to another psych ward where this time I had to assist in commiting her.
She kept telling the staff "I refuse to be admitted; I'm 20 and I want to be homeless". But when they finally got her calmed down (drugged) they asked her where she wanted to spend the night tonight, and she pointed to me. I would have been more than willing to take her in, but it was obvious that she needed to stay in proffesional care for a while, so that's where she is now.
I've been visiting her regularly for the past couple days, and I'm very touched that she isn't angry at me for putting her there (she's even made me her official contact person). She is slowly improving, and hopefully they'll have the since not to discharge her before she's fully stabilized.
Anyway, we've still got a long hard road in front of us yet. I just now realized that my birthday is in 6 days, so I'm trying to make plans with my friends to take my mind off of this for a little bit, after all, there's not much I can do about this situation and I refuse to stop living. I'll make plans for myself and if they must be cancelled for my troubled friend, so be it, but that won't stop me from making them.
So yeah, that's the story thus far. Thank you all for the support you've given me. It really does mean a lot, and hopefully I can find the time to start regularly commenting again.
My dear friend/ex-fiance has been in-and-out of psych wards for the past month, which has ofcourse been depressing all around. But last weekend she was discharged from one hospital and went back to her Independent Living Facility for about 24 hours before running away and going missing on the streets for three days. On the third day she was finally spotted by her mother's ex-cop friend who took her to his home, fed her and got her cleaned up.
So both her and my family went there to intervene, and after about a half hour of her and I silently hugging we finally asked her why the fuck she made us all worry and she announced that she believed her room-mates were trying to kill her. Obviously she had not improved, so we drove her to another psych ward where this time I had to assist in commiting her.
She kept telling the staff "I refuse to be admitted; I'm 20 and I want to be homeless". But when they finally got her calmed down (drugged) they asked her where she wanted to spend the night tonight, and she pointed to me. I would have been more than willing to take her in, but it was obvious that she needed to stay in proffesional care for a while, so that's where she is now.
I've been visiting her regularly for the past couple days, and I'm very touched that she isn't angry at me for putting her there (she's even made me her official contact person). She is slowly improving, and hopefully they'll have the since not to discharge her before she's fully stabilized.
Anyway, we've still got a long hard road in front of us yet. I just now realized that my birthday is in 6 days, so I'm trying to make plans with my friends to take my mind off of this for a little bit, after all, there's not much I can do about this situation and I refuse to stop living. I'll make plans for myself and if they must be cancelled for my troubled friend, so be it, but that won't stop me from making them.
So yeah, that's the story thus far. Thank you all for the support you've given me. It really does mean a lot, and hopefully I can find the time to start regularly commenting again.
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Hope you're hanging in there
Also I hope you had a good b-day with loads of fun and friends around you. Biiiig belated b-day hugs to you!!
Stay safe and take care of yourself 2, mkay!