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How is cutting off a depressed person from the positive factors in their life (future, friends, studies, activities) considered taking care of the patient? Wou

How is cutting off a depressed person from the positive factors in their life (future, friends, studies, activities) considered taking care of the patient? Wouldn't you imagine that blowing the floor out from under an elite college student with friends and interests and a future and sending them to a dead-end, alone, in their parents house would make things a great deal worse? If I were considering suicide even with all those positive things in my life, there'd be no consideration necessary when they were taken away. Instead, the knowledge that this could happen just provides pretty damn compelling reason not to seek therapy or even support from friends.

stephen 13y ago
> How is cutting off a depressed person from the positive factors in their life (future, friends, studies, activities) considered taking care of the patient? This "positive" environment was an environment where she was suicidal. Objectively, that's not positive. Yes, the author insinuates Yale was positive for her, but she was also cutting herself at the time, so you need to take her assertions with a grain of salt. > pretty damn compelling reason not to seek therapy Are people not reading the article? It has a happy ending. They let her back in. She's healthy now. (Basically; it'll probably be a life-long struggle for her.) The more realistic ending to "not seeking therapy", "not speaking up so I don't get torn away from my awesome positive experience" is that she ends up not making it. That would be a much worse story for the Yale Daily News to run. Also, note that her notion of a support network (the person she texted after cutting herself), was her dorm parent. (Yale uses the fancy term "FroCo"/Freshmen Counselor, but this just some senior who volunteered for free housing, and is no way trained to support/treat suicidal/self-harmful students.) IMO that shows her judgement about a support network is a naive. With her sort of thoughts/condition, her support network can't be solely "friends & family who love me", it needs to include "professionals who can help my psychiatric disorder".

stephen 13y ago

> How is cutting off a depressed person from the positive factors in their life (future, friends, studies, activities) considered taking care of the patient? This "positive" environment was an environment where she was suicidal. Objectively, that's not positive. Yes, the author insinuates Yale was positive for her, but she was also cutting herself at the time, so you need to take her assertions with a grain of salt. > pretty damn compelling reason not to seek therapy Are people not reading the article? It has a happy ending. They let her back in. She's healthy now. (Basically; it'll probably be a life-long struggle for her.) The more realistic ending to "not seeking therapy", "not speaking up so I don't get torn away from my awesome positive experience" is that she ends up not making it. That would be a much worse story for the Yale Daily News to run. Also, note that her notion of a support network (the person she texted after cutting herself), was her dorm parent. (Yale uses the fancy term "FroCo"/Freshmen Counselor, but this just some senior who volunteered for free housing, and is no way trained to support/treat suicidal/self-harmful students.) IMO that shows her judgement about a support network is a naive. With her sort of thoughts/condition, her support network can't be solely "friends & family who love me", it needs to include "professionals who can help my psychiatric disorder".