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[quote=Anonymous]Unfortunately healthcare for vets is in crisis these days. I'm not surprised to hear about the insurance issues and the lack of action. You need to go all out on this--call his psychiatrist, his doctor. Xanax is probably not what is called for here. He sounds like he needs to be admitted for a short term.  Remember, he may refuse to be admitted but he cannot think clearly right now. He is in a very vulnerable state, as are you. I'm glad your mom is there.

What i would do: bring him in today, and accompany him to discuss his mental health crisis. Tell him that you want to be there for a discussion and evaluation, to accelrate the process of medicaiton and make sure that he is getting apporpriate treatment. Tell him you want to help him and are going to advocate for him. That you need to do this and if he accompanies you willingly to be evaluated, you will not have him committed involuntarily. Then when you get there, you make sure that both he and you describe what is going on and let the physician make the evaluation. He

I'm really surprised that after walking into a facility and saying he was going to kill himself he was not admitted. Is this typical? [/quote]

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