Psychiatric Hospitalization, Fear, and Hope

HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter

Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:

• Psychiatric Hospitalization, Fear, and Hope
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Stand Up for Mental Health
• Latest Mental Health New

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Psychiatric Hospitalization, Fear, and Hope

Living with mental illness can mean living with fear, including the fear of psychiatric hospitalization. Whether they're called psychiatric hospitals, mental health hospitals, or behavioral health hospitals, they're often shrouded in mystery. People don't always know what to expect from these fear of the unknown, and fear of the unknown causes significant anxiety.

Today's mental health hospitals bear no resemblance to the "mental wards" of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Behavioral health hospitals exist to help treat people by diagnosing mental illness, determining an effective course of treatment, and helping people develop coping skills. (What is It Really Like to Stay in a Mental Hospital?)

Few people want to experience psychiatric hospitalization; however, many people enter inpatient treatment voluntarily because they are struggling with mental health challenges in their daily lives and are seeking help to overcome these difficulties (When Do You Need Inpatient Treatment for Bipolar Disorder?). It takes a great deal of strength and courage to seek the help and support psychiatric hospitalization offers. It's also is a sign of hope and positivity: imagine feeling overwhelmed and hopeless because of the effects of mental illness, yet part of you knows that things can and do get better. Psychiatric hospitals exist to diagnose, treat, and help people not just manage mental illness but live well and mentally healthy despite mental illness.

Related Articles Dealing with Psychiatric Hospitalization

• Psychiatric Hospitalization
• Types of Mental Health Facilities
• Types of Mental Health Treatment
• Types of Behavioral and Mental Health Services You May Need
• What I Learned About Psych Hospital Stays
• What's It Like Inside a Mental Hospital?
• Depression Treatment: Outpatient vs. Inpatient

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: Have you or a family member ever required psychiatric hospitalization? What was it like (pros and cons)? We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.

Share our Stories

At the top and bottom of all our stories, you'll find social share buttons for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites. If you find a particular story, video, psychological test or other HealthyPlace feature helpful, there's a good chance others in need will too. Please share.

We also get many inquiries about our linking policy. If you have a website or blog, you can link to any page on the HealthyPlace website without asking us beforehand.

Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. Marriage and Mental Illness: For Better or Worse?
2. Surviving Winter and Depression
3. Siblings of Children with Mental Illness

If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

• The Difference Between Anxiety and Stress
• How Radical Acceptance Can Help Your Self-Esteem
• Distress Tolerance Is Important for Depression
• Lessons on Anxiety from ‘The Walking Dead’
• Ways To Stay Sober While On Pain Medication
• How I Got Sober and Clean
• Grounding Techniques To Combat Anxiety in PTSD Recovery
• Don’t Talk to a Blogger: Action Steps for Mental Health Help
• Destigmatizing Self-Diagnosis of Mental Illness
• Mental Illness and Marriage: The Cost of Making It Work
• When Binge Eating Is Used as A Coping Mechanism
• The Anxious Empath: Anxiety And Other People’s Feelings
• Why We Believe Eating Disorder Lies
• Journaling And Schizophrenia Or Schizoaffective Disorder
• Transform Triggering Emotions Because You’d Rather Be Happy

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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Stand Up for Mental Health

Thousands Have Joined the Stand Up for Mental Health Campaign

But we still need you. Let others know there's no shame in having depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trichotillomania, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia or any other mental illness.

Join the Stand Up for Mental Health campaign. Put a button on your website or blog (buttons for family members, parents, mental health professionals and organizations too). We also have covers for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

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Latest Mental Health News

These stories and more are featured on our mental health news page:

• Researchers Have Uncovered The First Human Gene Mutation That Is Directly Linked To Seasonal Depression
• Television Exposure Directly Linked To A Thin Body Ideal In Women
• Chocolate May Boost Cognitive Function
• Couples' Lifestyle Choices Impact On Obesity Risk, Study Finds
• Losing 5% Of Your Body Weight Is Enough To Reap Significant Health Benefits
• Money Worries Drive Physical Pain, Study Finds
• Rutgers Study Indicates That Violence Diminishes Learning And Reduces Maternal Behaviors
• Exposure To Air Pollution Increases The Risk Of Obesity

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• or become a fan of HealthyPlace on Facebook.

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