I am usually able to control suicidality in myself, but, as I pointed out to the hospital staff after the whole episode was finished, refusing to treat the psychiatric complaints of patients can take a relatively insignificant matter such as a dislocated shoulder and make it a fatal disease. If someone says that he is suffering, emergency room staff should respond accordingly. Suicides take place in this country because of the conservatism of doctors such as the ones I encountered in that emergency room, who deal with intolerance for extreme pain (physical and psychological) as a weakness of
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