When I was in environmental therapy (outpatient) there was a copatient who reminded little of you. The difference was that she had spiraled down so fast that she had sort of been caught up by the system. She was so depressed she couldn't do anything for herself. She was so helpless that it must have felt awful. She was put in a depression ward and given treatment and after not all that long, less than two months, she could leave the hospital and live independently. That was a huge step for someone who were near catatonic.

When she was with us in therapy she was still really frail and had to avoid stress to a large extent. But other than that, she could do what us others did, clean, buy food, cook, do dishes, sit around and talk, make and have coffee, go for walks and so on. She entered hospital with no energy at all and totally crashed down, and step by step she got better, could do more things on her own and get some independence back!

She was given different types of treatment in hospital, medication, but not just that. It really changed everything.