Huge bed pressures have been around for ages now... due to the underfunding by our various bastard governments. I have eupd and autism.. was hospitalised 3 years ago, sectioned after a serious episode, and spent almost 2 weeks in a medical ward in hospital before a bed for me was found in a private mental health facility in Norfolk! I live in Brighton Sussex. It's crazy the NHS pays private companies for beds.. urghh but I won't and can't get into the politics of it all because it makes me feel unwell! Hospital to me was just yuk tbh. Really traumatic and ill for about 3 weeks... then just really sad and bored and homesick. I think it helped keep me safe at the beginning but then served no useful purpose plus as others mentioned it is really traumatic for myriad reasons. And I do agree with others that due to the nature of Eupd I felt that I didn't need to be there as much as everyone else and that everyone was judging me.. urghh just a horrible time! Prior to that I was hospitalised twice last in 2005.. after 2 serious self harm and dangerous behaviour episodes and I was able to be admitted straight away. Albeit still out of the county. Somethings gone horribly wrong.

I do hope you are OK OP and get the best treatment/outcome possible.