Psychiatric treatment: Come soul, we’re going home

Psychiatric hospitals are not known for being particularly comfortable places. And that’s where we’re supposed to recover? There is an alternative
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A father in his late 20s stands with his wife and two small children in the emergency room of the Vivantes Klinikum am Urban in Berlin. For several weeks the young man has been extremely excited, euphoric and restless. At home he had said wild things: one moment the unemployed man wanted the house in which they… Family lives, renovate from the ground up. Invest in some big project in the next. He repeatedly spoke about the undiscovered abilities and talents that supposedly lay dormant within him. For his wife, the manic behavior was nothing new. But that day she couldn’t take it anymore and drove to the hospital with her husband: “It can’t go on like this, he needs help,” she says.