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Has anyone ever had to go to a hospital for psychological evaluation?

My counselor suggested this to me and it really scared me. After last night, I had another break down and I have been on my meds for two months now. I know I should have seen some improvement by now. Last night I almost contemplated driving myself to the hospital, but I ended up doing a lot better than I expected. It was nothing I ever want to relive. This morning I also had to get blood work done. I have to go somewhere special since they can’t take it from my arm. I went there and told the lady she has to take it from my hand and she told me she was going to try from my arm. Well she couldn’t find anything in my right arm so she tried my left and actually stuck the needle in. I got queasy from that. She tried my hand and couldn’t find the vain. When she pulled it out I guess my face went completely white. I started hyperventilating and proceeded to get sick. Stupid nurses. I felt like I was dying. It was soooo bad.
Well now that I got off subject, sorry, what all would they do in the evaluation? I am pretty sure my imbalance is hormonal. I just am worried because i don’t have time to take out of classes to get all of this done.

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Get the evaluation. It should not take long at all, and they aren’t going to hospitalize you or anything. You are taking classes, which means that you are functional. They only hospitalize people who are nonfunctional. They will just talk to you to see if you were given the correct diagnosis. If it turns out that you were not then you may not be taking the right kind of meds and they will just switch you to what you need. Everyone has this stigma about “mental health,” and I’ve never understood why. Keeping your mind and your thought processes healthy is just as important (or perhaps even more important) as keeping your body healthy. If your mind is ill, then it can make you feel physically ill…and that’s not good.

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