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Involuntarily Committed: Days 8 to 10

DPK — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:10:49 +0000

Day eight dawned like the previous seven, waking up early and drinking non-caffeinated coffee for an hour or two while trying to focus and read an Adrian McKinty book I had received from my paperbackswap membership before going into the hospital. The novel’s “hero” is a heroin addict so it wasn’t the best reading material [...]

Involuntarily Committed: Days Three to Seven

DPK — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:43:35 +0000

In retrospect it’s difficult to remember exactly what was going through my mind in the wee hours of the next morning when I continually called K on her cell as she drove home, alternately pleading with her and yelling at her to come back to my house. Needless to say it was psychotic mania. My [...]

Day Two: Involuntarily Committed

DPK — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:59:50 +0000

Day two of my stay in the locked ward dawned bright and brilliant. I was awake by 4:30, still feeling manic despite the antipsychotic meds and lithium the doctor had been administering to me at night. “Now what do I do?” I thought. “Another 3 days here and I can’t even have a cup of [...]

Day One: Involuntarily Committed

DPK — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:42:49 +0000

Snorting Adderall…I don’t recommend it. That’s what got me in trouble this time. Staying up for days at a time, not taking my risperidal to calm down at night. Self-medicating with weed and herbal incense and klonipin & even buying MORE Adderall then what I’m prescribed. Oh yeah, and the percosets & Xanax and tequila… [...]

Involuntarily Committed: My 12-Day Psych Ward Odyssey

DPK — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:35:42 +0000

Dear Readers, I have been away for far too long from my home, my friends, my blog… Reason? I was recently involuntarily committed to the local “Behavioral Health” facility after a particularly nasty bout of hypomania that unfortunately blossomed into full-blown psychotic mania. My lovely bipolar disorder, manic-depression, whatever you want to call it. I [...]