So right. I can't get it off my mind. So sad. If only we could have somehow helped her before she hurt herself.

There is sometimes nothing you can do. As some may know I had a nervous breakdown back in April of 2000. It was when the Fail Safe live telecast would have been on as I remember being upset because I was missing this because I was on a mental ward. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail_Safe_(television)

I tried to tell my story of what happened to put me in there with the other patients and orderlies but a kind orderly told me to just play by their rules and I would get out. If I did not shut up about what had actually happened to me, I would be stuck in there. So, I just patiently took the pills and did my time and was out in a week or so.

My point in this is sometimes we are taken by forces way beyond our control and just have to roll with the punches.

Some of the people I remember in this mental ward were suicide attempts. One was a car salesman who just seemed to be crying out for attention from his wife so he threatened her with suicide. Another man cut himself badly along the arm. He seemed to have serious anger issues.
Another man had been living on the street and had become belligerent when a police officer tried to kick him out of a place he had been using to sleep.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness - Mental Health Support, Education and Advocacy is a good resource for local support groups. I had tried to get the local Pinellas County chapter involved with my own problems but the Head of that Chapter's daughter was a patient of the doctor I had wanted to sue for malpractice for just prescribing medication when not looking at what had caused the problems I had in the first place. https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...042-post7.html (car was actually behind mine according to something I wrote closer to 2000 on Findlaw's message board). She had a serious conflict of interest. Every time I would try to get this psychiatrist to look at the facts rather than her cookbook for prescribing drugs she would just up my medication. And, sometimes joke with the pharmacy supplier within my earshot about my being the cause for her getting more free samples.

There are lousy doctors out there.