I appreciate the concern. At the time I read your reply, it was 3 in the morning when I was having a really rough time trying to get to sleep and your post in all CAPS really hit a nerve. I guess because of the horrendous experiences that I have had in an ER. I do not think that psych emergencies are best handled in an ER. One month after my klonopin withdrawal, I had my worst ever panic attack. I was driving my car, had to pull over because I just completely lost it. I was screaming loudly in my car, out of control. I called 911. The ambulance drivers laughed at me at the hospital, I saw them and they did not realize. I was stuck in a hallway in the ER on a stretcher and was completely freaking out, I had such a hard time keeping from screaming and falling in the floor, there was some loud man that was fighting with cops, they were yelling at him. It was quite a scene. Then I was put in a room and told very angrily that there was nothing that could be done for me and that they would NOT be giving me any benzos or other meds to help me. Nothing. Every single person was rather nasty to me except the doctor. He said still there was nothing he could do and they sent me home. So how the hell is an ER going to help me now? They are not.

The time before that when I went to an ER for help, they falsified my records, stated that I said "I want to kill myself" so they could admit me under a committment, involuntary, and they put me in a lock up facility. I was like I said treated like a criminal, like I had done something wrong and the doctor did not even discuss medications with me. He just took me off my long term klonopin abruptly, no weaning at all and I almost died from a stroke. Now do you think I would go to the ER for anything but a heart attack or major trauma? Hell NO.