Once you’re discharged from inpatient can they force you to come back later?
Recently, I was taking to a mental health center/clinic in Ohio
I was there for maybe 16 hours forsuicide thoughts apparently I was on a pink slip and I wanted to keep me for three days and transfer me to a different facility.
I told her I didn’t want to that. I was feeling better and wanted to go home so I don’t miss work. She said she would see what she could do and when she came back, she said that she would let me be an outpatient, but I need to go get with one of the programs that they mentioned and that they were going to refer me to them and she said if I don’t do anything, they will eventually know and then they have to come back and get me and I could end up staying longer.
Is this true? It’s honestly not helping my anxiety at all the outpatient showed I was scheduled for today at 9 AM a day after I was released which I wouldn’t be able to go because I’m at work. I’m supposed to call them today though to see if they have my information or that I was referred with them but still .
I also called back to the mental health clinic I was at I must’ve been talking to someone else in a different facility but she said that that’s not a thing I’m not saying that I’m not gonna get help but I don’t want them rushing through my door if I don’t go as soon as they wanted me to. I don’t really get how that works or how they could do a court order if I was discharged and even on my paperwork, it shows the places I was referred to, but it doesn’t say anything like what she said. I didn’t hurt anyone or anything while I was there. I would think they would force me to go if they wouldn’t discharge me, but I don’t know and I’m not really finding anything on the Internet for stuff like that.