Hospitalization is not the end of things. It can be a start of a new life if you really can't cope with the old one. Take me for an example.

I always ignored my personal boundaries and that stress was slowly killing me. During an especially stressful time in my early 30s i started the equivalent of force feeding myself up to 10k calories a day, smoking weed 24/7, and was suicidal as fuck. The only thing that got me out of that situation (outside of a possible suicide) was voluntary hospitalization.

I won't lie, the meds are not a very pleasant thing in general (although not feeling anything was a large improvement above what i experienced before!). But without getting stabilized in a stationary stay, i would never had the possibility of starting the necessary changes to make sure i could rebuild my life in a way that i could cope with long term.

Your mental health is in better shape than you think it is. I'm guessing they removed a townhouse that was sharing the side wall and that's why it looks like that, but re-building that side wall might do the trick, plus your mental health might win a couple of access points, a window or two. Maybe even a nice small balcony (if city ordinances allow it).

So cheer up bud, no signs of structural fatigue means you just need a new facade ;) 👍️🤜🙆‍♀️🎸🏴‍☠️🫡🚀😎

That's assuming you're lucky enough to even have someone who cares enough to bother to hospitalize you. Many of us don't.

If you told me these pictures were taken in Croatia, I'd believe you. (were they?)

Anything to avoid the 5150 again.

Mental health issues suck because you're better off not telling people what you have. Very close friends, some family, and your medical professionals are maybe ok, but everyone else is just a risk not worth taking.

If you had some physical alignment people are more accepting and compassionate. If you have schizophrenia, people will fear you. If you're bipolar, people will question and misjudge your actions. If you have anxiety disorder, people will think your overreacting. If you have clinical depression, people will tell you to just get over it.

You become "that person" and are no longer a person. Which is counter to why you take medicine and try to be stable.