Hi, I have to vent about my girlfriend's care. She was in a sent to a psych ward 10 days ago from another hospital for Delusions. She began having them while being treated for physical symptoms and was then transferred to hospital with a psychiatric ward. I visited every night and was told her treatment would take weeks every time, just last night in fact. Today I get a phone call saying they are going to release her today. I was out of town, but was returning tonight to see her so I made arraingments to pick her up at 5:00pm. Then the hospital called back and said "If you're not here in an hour, we're giving her a bus pass and putting her on the sidewalk!" What? We're in the middle of a heatwave, it's 106 degrees today, my girlfriend can barely walk to the bathroom from weakness, she'd been sick, remember? And they threatened to set her on the sidewalk! I wish I'd recorded it. Apparently, her 14 day hold expired and when they asked her if she was suicidal, she said no. And her insurance wouldn't pay if she wasn't suicidal. But threatening to abandon a helpless, delusional, sick woman on the street in 106 degree weather is OK. I'm outraged! And when I asked for care instructions, I was given 2 prescriptions, some papers listing a suicide hotline and 2 homeless shelters, and some unsigned forms saying they had explained everything to her. They apparently could care less what happens to her.

But, she's home now, aside from 1 incident when she threw up in my car because she thought the 4 security guards who held her in the wheelchair while they wheeled her out were throwing her in the trash, she's been calm. Sleeping mostly. But it's only been 4 hours.

Sorry for the rant. But does this happen regularly? Is it normal?