On Hospitalization

Content warning: suicide, inpatient hospitalization

Some of you who are reading have been hospitalized before with suicidal ideation, a manic episode, or other critical mental health symptoms. (I'm glad you are here. I hope you have experienced healing since that time.) Some of you who are reading have never been hospitalized and never had to think about it. And some of you who are reading are currently considering hospitalization. Regardless of your past or current experience, this is a complicated topic, and I'd like to cover it as I hope it will be helpful.