http://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2009/08/04/suicide-walk-scheduled/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=suicide-walk-scheduled ...it's about the quality of life! Mon, 21 May 2012 17:18:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2009/08/04/suicide-walk-scheduled/comment-page-1/#comment-1295 Claudia Auth Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:04:56 +0000 http://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2009/08/04/suicide-walk-scheduled/#comment-1295 I am happy to celebrate my son who made it through a difficult period with depression. He originally requested help and we started with his pediatrician who gave us very sound advice. The sad and hard part was the weeks/months of trying to get him an appointment with a professional. It was such a run a round. He eventually ended up in the emergency room and then to an in-patient facility which in the long run, I feel saved his life. He still went through some tough times but with counseling and medication adjustments he has had longer stretches of happiness. He is a productive, relatively happy senior in high school with a passion for photography and high hopes for art school. There was no one single remedy for his success in coming out of his severe depression. Had it not been for a combination of things, I don't know that I would have been able to go through with hospitalizing him which was the quicker answer to what he needed. I am happy to celebrate my son who made it through a difficult period with depression. He originally requested help and we started with his pediatrician who gave us very sound advice. The sad and hard part was the weeks/months of trying to get him an appointment with a professional. It was such a run a round. He eventually ended up in the emergency room and then to an in-patient facility which in the long run, I feel saved his life. He still went through some tough times but with counseling and medication adjustments he has had longer stretches of happiness. He is a productive, relatively happy senior in high school with a passion for photography and high hopes for art school.
There was no one single remedy for his success in coming out of his severe depression. Had it not been for a combination of things, I don’t know that I would have been able to go through with hospitalizing him which was the quicker answer to what he needed.

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