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Originally Posted by TheatreKid
Sorry they turned you away.
I'm in Canada too and unless you can make a really good case for being unsafe they will turn you away. I had a really bad experience where I took myself to the emergency room and they didn't believe me and convinced me to go home. The next day I still wanted to kill myself, so I went back. This time they admitted me, but they treated me really poorly, labelled me as manipulative, and I didn't get any help. They decided I was BPD, and sent me to a therapist who only dealt with borderline clients. The therapist said I was definitely not BPD and dumped me, because she only worked with borderline clients.
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I don't know if you have anything like this, but my city also has a crisis house - it's non-medical, no doctors or nurses, but it's 24 hours a day staffed with experienced counsellors and you stay for 3-5 days and work on goals. I did that last year and it was incredibly helpful.
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Good advice!
I am very surprised the OP was turned away
if they posed themselves as a suicide risk. This is a lawsuite happy country. Liability is always a big concern among independent healthcare professionals and businesses. But then if they are a government concern, they probably do not have to do anything. I went to a private hospital that my tdoc sent me to. She even told me what to say to them. It worked. I was in there for a month.
FWIW
PS: This cost me $100,000. I had them bill the company I worked for. They ended up paying the bill. But when I went in, I was not expecting anything.