\u201cWhen there is an emergency, you have to go to the ER,\u201d said Marnie Werner, a researcher for the Center for Rural Policy and Development. \u201cThere\u2019s an emergency because [patients] weren\u2019t getting help before that. They couldn\u2019t get in, or they didn\u2019t know, or the family didn\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ER is where the system bottlenecks. <\/p>\n
To save lives, we must break the silence and stigma facing mental illness long before a crisis hits. It\u2019s hard to find peace lying in a hospital bed as people chatter in the hallway. The longer the wait, the greater the danger. <\/p>\n
Rebekkah Anderson of Hibbing spent a lot of time in the ER. As a former foster mom, she\u2019s cared for kids with severe mental illness. She described how the system breaks down.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you go into the ER because your child has suicidal ideation, or homicidal ideation, they do that first triage,\u201d she explained. \u201cBut you\u2019re not having a heart attack, so you\u2019ll be there three hours waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said that in-patient treatment likely won\u2019t be available on the first visit. So you\u2019re sent home to wait for the next crisis. This process traumatizes not only the patient but also their families as outbursts persist. Fetal alcohol syndrome disorders, more common among foster kids, come with widespread mental illness comorbidities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen there is an emergency, you have to go to the ER,\u201d said Marnie Werner, a researcher for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-225019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114768886350065329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}