When Cassandra Arthur reached a crisis point as a teenager because of episodes of severe depression, she ended up at a hospital emergency department because neither she nor those trying to help her knew where else to seek help.
The first time, at age 17, Arthur's depression had driven her to the point of suicide, but her high school psychologist got wind of her plan to take her own life and contacted her parents. She was taken to the emergency department of a Toronto hospital and admitted to the children's psychiatric ward for 11 days.
Twice more that year, she went to the ER when she felt herself being pulled down into the black hole of depression and was again admitted, the last time for almost a month.
[For more of this story, written by Sheryl Ubelacker, go to http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/y...spital-ers-1.2762677]
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