*Updated: 2/24/2021 – Originally posted: 9/27/2019
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.
“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
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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Thank you for sharing! I really hope it does lead to change.
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No problem. Me too!!
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Thanks for sharing, JoAnn! A beautiful story that, taken in entirety, inspires hope. Especially for hose who need it most.
Nice picture on this post, by the way. Evocatively perfect, considering the subject.
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Hope, that wonderful little four letter word that gets us through this day and onto the next. Thank you and thanks for visiting!
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