Anonymous #1 2w

Oh shit, my bad. If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the difference? I’ve literally never heard of the term of intensive outpatient before my therapist told me about it

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Anonymous OP 2w

No you’re good I didn’t mean to like correct u or anything :) Inpatient is basically in like a hospital setting usually and you’re there 24/7 for a few days-like 2 weeks on the long end. They usually limit what you can have and wear and you have a room and sometimes a roommate. You do a lot of group therapy and meet with doctors and a psychiatrist, at least in the hospital i went to. It’s what you think of ig when you think of the psych ward/is the psych ward. (Part 1)

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Anonymous #1 2w

Intensive outpatient comes in two forms, php or partial hospitalization program and that’s usually where you go to group therapy during the day (like between 6 hours and sometimes 10 hours iirc) and then go home at night/in the evening, and iop or intensive outpatient program, which I’ve seen as the same as php but you go for less time. I think some places iop is the same thing as php/theyre combined but I’m not certain. Most of this comes from my own experience. Hope this helped :)

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Anonymous #1 2w

Oh I just remembered too, in the intensive outpatient I did, I also met with an individual therapist and a psychiatrist once a week. The program for me lasted I think like 6 weeks for php and 4 weeks for iop but I left after 2 weeks of iop due to issues with the administrators of the program

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Anonymous #1 2w

I appreciate all the details, thank you!

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Anonymous OP 2w

Ofc! I love talking about mental health care :)

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Anonymous #1 2w

i remember when they told me i’d be there for a week and they kept me for 3 🥀🥀🥀

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Anonymous #3 2w

They gave me a temporary detainment order 😭 I had to go see a judge. I’m so sorry u went through that

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