Reblog: A negative becomes a positive? Mental health and the emergency room

*Updated: 2/24/2021 – Originally posted: 9/27/2019

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Improving emergency services for mental health patients is a must. There are so many horror stories of mental health patients being treated despicably when seeking emergency care. I have more than one of those stories myself, sad to say.

That’s why it makes me so very happy to read this story by Morgan, a college student who experienced such a thing herself in a Michigan hospital. She wrote an op-ed to her local newspaper, which they published. Read about it and what happened as a result here. One can only hope that this will lead to some big changes in that hospital… and hopefully others will get on board, too.

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“If Michigan has one of the best hospital systems in the country, then why was my most recent experience at the hospital spending 22 hours in a chair while in a psychological crisis…?

I published an Op-Ed in The Michigan Daily yesterday, an Ann Arbor newspaper run by University of Michigan students…” Read more: Op-ed in a newspaper – MyOCDVoice

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Check out more reblogs of engaging mental health stories: Reblog: Pastors and Suicide: How Do We Keep this From Happening Again? and Reblog: Goodbye Psychiatry, I’ll miss you! – MindMD

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