Posted by bleauberry on May 19, 2009, at 20:03:22
In reply to Hospital -in or out ?, posted by cee on May 17, 2009, at 13:32:06
While my previous post was rather anti-hospital based on what I've seen with mine own eyes, I have had time to contemplate this thread and offer some added perspective.
If one is thinking about ways to end a life, a hospital is the best place to interrupt that process. The gas tank is on empty. A hospital stay can fill that gas tank halfway to full. Hope. That's where it's at. Everyone needs hope, and a hospital can do that.
A hospital stay can strengthen someone to where they find reserves they never knew they had so they never get so bad again as to have to go back to the hospital. Or even if they do, they have the comfort knowing a place of safe retreat from the world does exist.
Once in a while I see the receptionist from the psychiatric ward visiting the store where I work. She and I know each other by first names and there is a bond. I have no doubt good friendships can be born in hospitals. You never know where you'll meet someone really special in your life.
With the demandless world of a hospital stay, it is a good place to get close to one's spirituality. People can leave the hospital with Jesus as their best friend, when prior they never even thought about Him.
I generally frown on the psychiatric wards of USA, but I must admit, they do interrupt the endless road of misery and start a new road. It isn't the same old endless road anymore. The new road may be better or maybe not better, but at least it is a new start, a different road. The old is gone, bring on the new.
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