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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

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So, I called my psychiatrist’s office and got an answering machine from an evidently-open urgent care clinic. I told him that unemployment payments felt like going on “welfare,” something I had been brought up to avoid at all costs. Clearly my husband wasn’t. Just call,” he insisted. Someone will be there.” Go to the emergency room!”