They're for in case you get hospitalized involuntarily. They give you more say over what treatments you will be willing to accept during the hospitalization.
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I'm just curious how many people have heard of them, how many people have them and how many people would want to have one.
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“In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the...feeling felt as truth...that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”-William Styron
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