Calm Down

Calm Down

Anxiety and other things we are arrested by

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Ben Dreyfuss
Dec 09, 2020
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On September 21st 2016, I woke up in the Beth Israel psychiatric ward on a suicide hold. I didn't immediately remember what had happened but I had some vague flashes. A doctor was standing over me. He told me that later in the morning I would meet with a treatment team. I asked him if I was on a 72 hour hold. "No, because you came in through the ER. You…

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