When Should You Consider Hospitalization for Depression?

**Admin** Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:59 am

When Should You Consider Hospitalization for Depression?

Check out this interesting article By Therese J. Borchard is Associate Editor at Psych Central:
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/06/04/when-should-you-consider-hospitalization-for-depression/

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"I suspect you need to give your body the chance to rest and recover so that you can get your strength back to fight this thing”

“You’re carrying this backpack full of heavy rocks. Lugging the thing around consumes all your energy, leaving you with only exhaust fumes with which to accomplish your other responsibilities, like taking care of your kids. A hospital stay will allow you to drop the backpack long enough to recover some of your strength. Because you are safe within our unit, you won’t have to devote so much stamina into not pursuing suicide. Does that make sense?”

When Should You Consider Hospitalization for Depression? Depressed%20woman

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