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Last year my daughter had a nervous breakdown and tried to commit suicide.  She was going through a very nasty divorce, lost her job due to having surgery, couldn't find another job didn't have insurance. Is a single mother, couldn't pay the bills and there wasn't anyone to help because she got child support, which isn't considered income except when you need medical care etc. It was the worst day of our lives and if it wasn't for the Lord giving me strength and assurance I would have also had a nervous breakdown. She was taken from her home in handcuffs because she said she just wanted to be left alone to die everyone would be better off without her. She didn't have any insurance, so she was not treated as she should have been at the hospital.  They did testing on her, they should have know the medication that she took does not show up in tests but it stays in the body and after so many hours can cause you to stop breathing.  They said she was cooperative, non combative, she couldn't even sign her name when she was admitted.When my grandson and I got to the hospital, no one spoke to us and told us anything they finally let us go back to where she was and she was like a drunk slurring her words and saying "Now let met tell you this and that like a drunk person does.  There was a man saying over and over I'm hungry somebody feed me. and finally my daughter said"Shut the hell up" and the man said ,"Ok" and he shut up for a while and everyone laughed except the woman who was in the next cubicle and she said to my daughter that wasn't funny why didn't you just finish yourself off. and my daugher said are you able to get up and come over her and the woman said yes and my daughter said come here and I'll beat the s--- out of you. the security gurad had to tell them both to stop.  But I didn't see a Dr but they put on the Drs notes that she was well groomed, she hadn't bathed or washed her hair or anything that day.  They wrote she was very cooperative and non combative.  They are supposed to keep suicide attempts for 32 hours for observation they released her into her own custody, after 3 hours.  Of couse my Grandson & I were there to take her home.  I was in shock from everything that had happened.  When we got outside she didn't want to get in the car and I told get in the car I'm taking you home I'm tired and I need to go home.  She got into the car. We took her home she got home stayed up for quite a while, which we found out was good because she could have gone to sleep and died.  We kept someone with her for 3 days and nights straight.  One morning she got up and was back to her normal self.  The hospital is now going to sue her for payment for the ER visit.  She was fortunate to have people who loved her and watched over her 24 hours a day what happens when people don't have insurance and are released and they have no one to take care of them, they probably lay down and die and they say that the person completed the suicide attempt.  Something needs to be done to protect people who have no insurance and are at their whits end and try to commit suicide to make sure they are given the care that an insured person would have.  I too had no one to help me through this time I truly believe I was in shock for a month or more and just talking about it all now, I'm shaking. My Grandson had adults problems when he's only a child. I thank God that when you have no person, you have a God who loves and cares about you and your family.