Day of Discharge

A patient eager to leave.
Manic symptoms stabilized but insight remains poor.
Can no longer justify inpatient commitment.
Family?
Too difficult, even dangerous to live with them.
Residential?
Disqualified. All bridges burned.
Disposition?
Return to homelessness (and meth use).
His sister pleads,
“What can I do to change the system?”
I have the same question.

Jackson Richards, MD


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