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I echo what the poster above said. Intensive outpatient programs are a very good alternative to hospitalization. I found that being in the hospital was effective for keeping me from ending my own life, an admittedly important goal, but did little else to help me. Contrasting that, when I did an outpatient program, almost as a last chance before the hospital, it was very helpful and by the end of it I no longer wanted to end my life.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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