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Do you know any at point should you check yourself in to a psychiatric hospital?

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Dr. Humberto Quintana answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Danger self & others: When a person is a danger to themselves or other this is a reason for admission to psych. hospital. When a patient is decompensatied and cannot care for themselves and are severely impaired in their functioning they may be at risk for harming & being violent to themselves & others or are psychotic & dellusional & severely impaired psych. hospitalization indicated.

Answered 9/28/2016

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