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annzabelle 13 hours ago

I recommend if you're looking into inpatient treatment and you're not an acute danger to yourself or others, look into partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs instead. I know Kaiser covers some at least in Virginia.

In my experience with family members, inpatient hospital stays at many hospitals in the US are one of the least therapeutic environments possible, and once you've gone through an ER or psych ER (which most of them make you do), you have no control over which hospital you end up at. In the end your stay is unlikely to be any more than 7 days.

PHP programs on the other hand tend to fill the role that work had previously taken in someone's life for a few to several weeks. They're typically 9-3, held in office parks, and are mostly quality group therapy with a daily or weekly psych visit.