4 The rate of suicide after discharge from psychiatric hospitals and wards (referred to herein as postdischarge suicide) is very high. A recent US study5 reported a suicide rate of 178 per 100 000 person-years in the first 3 months after discharge, a figure that is approximately 15 ...
At the very least it started a national discussion about the use and abuses of force in psychiatric hospitals and (I think) juvenile detention centers. (God forbid anyone at all should care about jails and prisons however…Those people obviously deserve it, they are criminals after all… Right...
But somehow that last doctor who admitted me, he didn’t see my case as hopeless. He didn’t see me as someone who was just “trying to get attention” or “manipulate the system” I think he realized that it was possible the medication was making me worse. I think he realized, and...
These 3 hospitals cared for 85% of infants with birth weights from 501 to 2000 g and 90% of those with birth weights of 1500 g or less in 3 New Jersey counties. These counties were somewhat more affluent than the nation as a whole; 26% of the sample was black, but Hispanic and ...