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I know nothing about the place, being here in Canad* and all, but the name of it gives me the creeps! <G Welcome! jane – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi everybody. I’m a long time lurker, but I’ve never posted here before. My therapist has recommended I check out the Women’s Institute for Incorporation Therapy program in Hollywood, Florida. It is an in-patient hospital specifically for women with DID and PTSD. Does anyone here have any experience with this organization? Thanks in advance.
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Hi everybody. I’m a long time lurker, but I’ve never posted here before. My therapist has recommended I check out the Women’s Institute for Incorporation Therapy program in Hollywood, Florida. It is an in-patient hospital specifically for women with DID and PTSD. Does anyone here have any experience with this organization? Thanks in advance.
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Hi everybody. I’m a long time lurker, but I’ve never posted here before. My therapist has recommended I check out the Women’s Institute for Incorporation Therapy program in Hollywood, Florida. It is an in-patient hospital specifically for women with DID and PTSD. Does anyone here have any experience with this organization? Thanks in advance.
Hi and welcome to the group (at least the nonlurking part:) I know nothing about this place. I’ve never heard of it. I guess if I were to check it out I’d contact them directly and ask them for info. I’d ask my t’pist why it was recommended. I’d check for any web info. I’d call the better business bureau in FL and any licensing places it is associated with. I personally would also check it out in person because I have always had a good sense (or intuition?) about places I’ve gone inpt. Keep us informed and of course post often and early! 
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi everybody. I’m a long time lurker, but I’ve never posted here before. My therapist has recommended I check out the Women’s Institute for Incorporation Therapy program in Hollywood, Florida. It is an in-patient hospital specifically for women with DID and PTSD. Does anyone here have any experience with this organization? Thanks in advance. Hi and welcome to the group (at least the nonlurking part:) I know nothing about this place. I’ve never heard of it. I guess if I were to check it out I’d contact them directly and ask them for info. I’d ask my t’pist why it was recommended. I’d check for any web info. I’d call the better business bureau in FL and any licensing places it is associated with. I personally would also check it out in person because I have always had a good sense (or intuition?) about places I’ve gone inpt. Keep us informed and of course post often and early! Rainbow Colors (Jill)
Thanks, Jill. Unfortunately, I can’t check them out personally. I live thousands of miles away, which is why I was hoping someone here might have had contact with them. I’ve already asked WIIT to send me info and have checked their web site, but you know how that goes. I’m only going to hear about how wonderful they are. They may well be just that, but I dread even thinking of going someplace and reliving my trauma (not to mention disclosing my DID) without knowing what I’m going into. My therapist says she has had talks with the staff there (specific to checking out resources for me) and she thinks they are very professional and that I could gain a lot of strength from what they have to offer. I’ve never been "institutionalized" before and the idea of even volunteering for an in-patient program is very scary to me. I suppose I will just call them myself this coming week. I’ll keep everyone posted.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi everybody. I’m a long time lurker, but I’ve never posted here before. My therapist has recommended I check out the Women’s Institute for Incorporation Therapy program in Hollywood, Florida. It is an in-patient hospital specifically for women with DID and PTSD. Does anyone here have any experience with this organization? Thanks in advance. Hi and welcome to the group (at least the nonlurking part:) I know nothing about this place. I’ve never heard of it. I guess if I were to check it out I’d contact them directly and ask them for info. I’d ask my t’pist why it was recommended. I’d check for any web info. I’d call the better business bureau in FL and any licensing places it is associated with. I personally would also check it out in person because I have always had a good sense (or intuition?) about places I’ve gone inpt. Keep us informed and of course post often and early! Rainbow Colors (Jill) Thanks, Jill. Unfortunately, I can’t check them out personally. I live thousands of miles away, which is why I was hoping someone here might have had contact with them. I’ve already asked WIIT to send me info and have checked their web site, but you know how that goes. I’m only going to hear about how wonderful they are. They may well be just that, but I dread even thinking of going someplace and reliving my trauma (not to mention disclosing my DID) without knowing what I’m going into. My ther*pist says she has had talks with the staff there (specific to
checking out resources for me) and she thinks they are very professional and that I could gain a lot of strength from what they have to offer. I’ve never been "institutionalized" before and the idea of even volunteering for an in-patient program is very scary to me. I suppose I will just call them myself this coming week. I’ll keep everyone posted.
welcome to the group. :) i’ve never been in-pt before either, and i also know nothing of the place. occasionally my shrink or i will mention that certain things i have real problems with in thpy would be *so much easier* inpt, but *shrugs* i’m scared of being l*cked(o) up. ’sides, i’d imagine getting food i’m not allergic to in *any* sort of institution would be nearly impossible. or i’d be eating, like, plain white rice, plain green beans, and a plain baked chicken breast at every meal. "oh, we’re worried you’re not getting enough nutrition. here, drink this nutritional shake". umm….no. :) loaded with soy. not doing it. "jello?" no. "turkey sandwich?" no. "how bout without the bread?" no. still allergic to it. sorry. tangent. oh, i’d prolly still get sick from the chicken breast, cuz they’d prolly spray the baking pan with soybean oil cooking spray so it won’t stick. *rolls eyes* sorry…what was i saying? i’m sorry you’re having problems right now. i hope you get the treatment that’s right for you. and keep posting, k? you’re one of us now. :) jt – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –
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Hey jt, just as a fyi the general psych ward I was in was in a regular hosp and I found it quite easy to get what I needed for food. Everything but caffeine that is. The stupid hosp was seventh day advent which means no caffeine of any sort in the entire hosp and being on a locked ward I couldn’t go out and get some as needed. My so brought it in every day but it wasn’t the same. I dunno. Waking up at 7am inpt to a cup of institutional decaf really doesn’t seem to be all that healthy *wry grin* But I eat pretty organic and high fiber/low fat ovo lacto veggie and they did a great job of making sure I got what I needed health wise. It wasn’t always the most inspired but it wasn’t all that bad. You just sit down with the head dietitian on day one or two and make out a list. The time I was in a ‘real’ psych hosp I wasn’t into any different sort of eating than anyone else so I don’t know how that would have worked. But the ‘real’ place had caffeine 24 hrs a day! Of course that led me to get caffeine toxicity… not really recommended… Rainbow Colors (Jill) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi everybody. I’m a long time lurker, but I’ve never posted here before. My therapist has recommended I check out the Women’s Institute for Incorporation Therapy program in Hollywood, Florida. It is an in-patient hospital specifically for women with DID and PTSD. Does anyone here have any experience with this organization? Thanks in advance. Hi and welcome to the group (at least the nonlurking part:) I know nothing about this place. I’ve never heard of it. I guess if I were to check it out I’d contact them directly and ask them for info. I’d ask my t’pist why it was recommended. I’d check for any web info. I’d call the better business bureau in FL and any licensing places it is associated with. I personally would also check it out in person because I have always had a good sense (or intuition?) about places I’ve gone inpt. Keep us informed and of course post often and early! Rainbow Colors (Jill) Thanks, Jill. Unfortunately, I can’t check them out personally. I live thousands of miles away, which is why I was hoping someone here might have had contact with them. I’ve already asked WIIT to send me info and have checked their web site, but you know how that goes. I’m only going to hear about how wonderful they are. They may well be just that, but I dread even thinking of going someplace and reliving my trauma (not to mention disclosing my DID) without knowing what I’m going into. My ther*pist says she has had talks with the staff there (specific to checking out resources for me) and she thinks they are very professional and that I could gain a lot of strength from what they have to offer. I’ve never been "institutionalized" before and the idea of even volunteering for an in-patient program is very scary to me. I suppose I will just call them myself this coming week. I’ll keep everyone posted. welcome to the group. :) i’ve never been in-pt before either, and i also know nothing of the place. occasionally my shrink or i will mention that certain things i have real problems with in thpy would be *so much easier* inpt, but *shrugs* i’m scared of being l*cked(o) up. ’sides, i’d imagine getting food i’m not allergic to in *any* sort of institution would be nearly impossible. or i’d be eating, like, plain white rice, plain green beans, and a plain baked chicken breast at every meal. "oh, we’re worried you’re not getting enough nutrition. here, drink this nutritional shake". umm….no. :) loaded with soy. not doing it. "jello?" no. "turkey sandwich?" no. "how bout without the bread?" no. still allergic to it. sorry. tangent. oh, i’d prolly still get sick from the chicken breast, cuz they’d prolly spray the baking pan with soybean oil cooking spray so it won’t stick. *rolls eyes* sorry…what was i saying? i’m sorry you’re having problems right now. i hope you get the treatment that’s right for you. and keep posting, k? you’re one of us now. :) jt
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi everybody. I’m a long time lurker, but I’ve never posted here before. My therapist has recommended I check out the Women’s Institute for Incorporation Therapy program in Hollywood, Florida. It is an in-patient hospital specifically for women with DID and PTSD. Does anyone here have any experience with this organization? Thanks in advance. Hi and welcome to the group (at least the nonlurking part:) I know nothing about this place. I’ve never heard of it. I guess if I were to check it out I’d contact them directly and ask them for info. I’d ask my t’pist why it was recommended. I’d check for any web info. I’d call the better business bureau in FL and any licensing places it is associated with. I personally would also check it out in person because I have always had a good sense (or intuition?) about places I’ve gone inpt. Keep us informed and of course post often and early! Rainbow Colors (Jill) Thanks, Jill. Unfortunately, I can’t check them out personally. I live thousands of miles away, which is why I was hoping someone here might have had contact with them. I’ve already asked WIIT to send me info and have checked their web site, but you know how that goes. I’m only going to hear about how wonderful they are. They may well be just that, but I dread even
Well, sure but they are going to tell you how wonderful they are from their pov. It might clearly not be _your_ pov. For example, when I was checking out inpt places my biggest questions were around things like ‘what are your policies about meds? time out or seclusion rooms? what is your basic philosophy (ie. are you a freudian or a behaviorist or…)? Now a place that said ‘we use all of the state of the art meds and encourage patients to find a med that works best for them while monitoring their reactions and blah blah blah’ sounds great but it is NOT for me. I look for a place that says ‘well, meds are used here as needed but no one is encouraged to take them if they don’t think they would be beneficial’. For me time out/seclusion rooms were mandatory based on what I was planning on doing and how. But it had to be on _my_ terms and without restraints. As for the philosophy… _I’m_ a behaviorist *grin* I didn’t need _that_ sort of help. I can do that to myself. I needed a more psycho dynamically oriented place but not totally freudian. In all cases I wanted them to answer me openly, honestly and directly so I could then run it by my t’pist and together we could figure out how that applied to my plans. thinking of going someplace and reliving my trauma (not to mention disclosing my DID) without knowing what I’m going into. My therapist says
Then probly the first thing you need to do is figure out with your t’pist what you want to get out of the stay and if that is something this place can help you with. For example, in one stay I wanted to work on anger and out of control switching. the past details were pretty irrelevant per say. I had to know that the place could help me with containment, anger management _and_ letting the anger out in productive ways. And on top of it all help all of us inside get a better handle on internal communication. Those were the specific goals I presented to the intake person and that is what was put in writing for me as a treatment plan. she has had talks with the staff there (specific to checking out resources for me) and she thinks they are very professional and that I could gain a lot of strength from what they have to offer.
Again, find out specifically what they have to offer and how that applies to you personally, not just patients in general. I found one of the best stays I ever had was in a general psych ward where most everyone was either clinically depressed and getting their meds sorted out or coming off of some substance. No specific trauma training or anything related to dissociation. Of course the ward t’pist and pdoc I worked with knew about this stuff and several of the techs were fantastic, but that wasn’t due to specific training on their part or even much experience in those areas. I’ve never been "institutionalized" before and the idea of even volunteering for an in-patient program is very scary to me. I suppose I will just call them myself this coming week. I’ll keep everyone posted.
Please do! Rainbow Colors (Jill) — The colors blend, the edges soften. Swirling and mixing we are becoming white light.
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Hi I hope this helps. I was you about three months ago. I found wiit and did not know what to do. But I was in such need of help, I took a chance and hopped on a plane (I live in Pa). My family and friends were all scared, was it going to be what they said it was??? Well let me tell you, it was BETTER!!!! It was the best thing I ever did!! And if you have DID THIS IS THE BEST PLACE FOR YOU IN THE USA!!! I am on a closed wiit fourm with wiit alumni only and eveyone there agress it gave them there life back. Wiit is a very intense program. It is unusual gift. If you have the oppertunity to go..go!!!!
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