Comments on: Keeping children out of hospitals http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/07/31/keeping-children-out-of-hospitals/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alison Hymes http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/07/31/keeping-children-out-of-hospitals/comment-page-1/#comment-2286 Alison Hymes Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:26:39 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/07/31/keeping-children-out-of-hospitals/#comment-2286 This is why Shriner's is so great, not only is their care free to every kid, but they pay for a parent to come with the child and they keep hospital time to a minimum, paying for a motel room for the parent and child for what can be done outpatient if they are from out of town. It is only for orthopeadic issues, I wish there were a place like that for all kids' problems. Kids with psychiatric issues in a hospital are so vulnerable to abuse on top of the trauma of being away from home. Unless the parents are the problem and they are involved in family systems therapy at the hospital, it makes no sense to me to put little ones in a hospital. This is why Shriner’s is so great, not only is their care free to every kid, but they pay for a parent to come with the child and they keep hospital time to a minimum, paying for a motel room for the parent and child for what can be done outpatient if they are from out of town. It is only for orthopeadic issues, I wish there were a place like that for all kids’ problems.

Kids with psychiatric issues in a hospital are so vulnerable to abuse on top of the trauma of being away from home. Unless the parents are the problem and they are involved in family systems therapy at the hospital, it makes no sense to me to put little ones in a hospital.

]]> By: Jon S. http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/07/31/keeping-children-out-of-hospitals/comment-page-1/#comment-2285 Jon S. Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:04:31 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/07/31/keeping-children-out-of-hospitals/#comment-2285 One of the many awful things about mental illness is the lack of any external indicators for all the internal suffering we go through. Not that I want to walk around with a big "DEPRESSED" stamped on my forehead—and I certainly don't want sirens to go off every time I have a panic attack, but because mental illness is so amorphous, so intangible, how can we really tell when we're traumatized or ill or recovered and healthy? At least a broken bone can be x-rayed to see when it's fully healed. Will I ever be "better"? Will I know it when I see/feel it? Anyways. Sorry for the tangent. One of the many awful things about mental illness is the lack of any external indicators for all the internal suffering we go through.

Not that I want to walk around with a big “DEPRESSED” stamped on my forehead—and I certainly don’t want sirens to go off every time I have a panic attack, but because mental illness is so amorphous, so intangible, how can we really tell when we’re traumatized or ill or recovered and healthy? At least a broken bone can be x-rayed to see when it’s fully healed.

Will I ever be “better”? Will I know it when I see/feel it?

Anyways. Sorry for the tangent.

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