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Originally posted by winneythepooh7
Hi. I also wanted to encourage you as much as you can to try to take her to the hospital yourself. Yesterday I had to have a severely depressed client of mine hospitalized against her will. It was a big scene to say the least. She didn't want to go with me voluntarily so I had to call 911. 10 police officers showed up, along with 3 other EMT's..... and they were these big huge guys (she's like 5'1). She became extremely irate when this happened and they had to cuff her and drag her out of her apartment kicking and screaming, literally. All the neighbors were gathered around watching the whole ordeal. I know she was embarrassed, as was I. These are situations we hope to avoid but when someone is threatening to kill themselves, we need to take them seriously.
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I used to be a part of these teams that evaluate and arrange the client to be taken to the hospital. It is hard, but sometimes it needs to be done. If your sister is refusing to go to a hospital and you cannot get her to the hospital, then you may have to call in a Psychiatric Evaluation Team (aka PET team) to have them evaluate her and (if needed) admit her to the hospital. Will she be angry with you? Probably, but at least you know that she's alive and getting treatment. Once she tackles the illness, then she'll realize that this was in her best interest.
Good luck to you!