What Not to Say During a Mental Health Crisis
Words matter most when a person is least able to filter them. That is the hard truth at the center of any mental health crisis. Someone in acute distress may already feel frightened, ashamed, trapped, or exhausted. Their thinking may be narrowed by panic, depression, trauma, psychosis, mania, substance use, sleep deprivation, or some mix of all of those. A sentence that sounds casual to the speaker can land like a verdict to the person in crisis. I have seen families
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