I left the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Room last night, when I was told that they would help me get into a crisis stabilization unit but not a locked, hospital unit.
I went to the Brigham and Women's Emergency Room, where I was also told that they would help me get into a crisis stabilization unit, not a hospital.
While she was trying to get me to say things that would justify the decision not to help me be admitted to a hospital, a BEST (Boston Emergency Services Team) clinican asked me why I wanted to be in a hospital. I said that, unlike the way it would be in a crisis unit, I couldn't just run out of a hospital and kill myself. She said "But you've never run out of a crisis unit and killed yourself before."
They made me leave the Emergency Room this morning. They gave me an information sheet for the Arbour partial hospitalization program, a "Resource Guide to Emergency Services Programs" from 2013, and BEST's phone number.
Copyright L. Kochman, November 12, 2014 @ 9:27 a.m.
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