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Suicidal Ideation:  A Personal Story

7/12/2016

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The red double doors swing open and the nurses patiently wait for me to say goodbye to my mother. Tears stream down both our faces as I stand up from the wheelchair and hug her tightly.

“Mom, I’m scared.” I say, as my voice cracks.

“You’ll be okay,” she whispers, her hands clasped around mine. “You’ll be okay.”

Just like that she let go and I’m wheeled into the psychiatric unit. The doors make a loud buzzing noise as they clamp shut. I hear them lock behind me simultaneously as a lump of irrational abandonment settles in my stomach. I find myself immediately on the verge of throwing up and I feel my whole body shivering. Why do hospitals always have to be so damn cold?


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Client Perspective:  The Gravity of Diagnosis

4/30/2016

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My sister’s best friend Jean is standing in our kitchen, her face strained, her movements quick and agitated. “It just gets so frustrating,” she blurts.   “I just want someone to acknowledge...”   Unable to finish her thought, she brings her hand sharply down on her knee, a nervous tic that I’ve witnessed from her countless times.

Jean’s plight is one familiar to me: she is suffering from any number of mental imbalances, anxieties, mania, and depression, and what she wants is a diagnosis.   Unfortunately for her, her father­­'s primary care physician­­ is not supportive of this desire for clarity.   His reason is fear based; he doesn’t want his daughter put in a box or labeled.



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