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...experience, the presence of caring and accessible tutors…has quite literally been the difference between despair and success,” Elizabeth J. Quinn ’04 wrote in a letter to administrators about mental health services...
...letter to administrators last year, Elizabeth J. Quinn ’04 described a friend who, after being placed in a psychiatric hospital following a manic episode, got medication from a UHS psychiatrist weekly for three months without getting any therapy...
...psychiatrists could, one week, determine that this student was dangerously incapable of caring for herself and, the next week, think she was capable of independently organizing her own elaborate treatment program while adjusting dosages of sometimes-debilitating psycho-pharmaceuticals and taking four classes is simply absurd,” Quinn wrote...
This may be the general guideline, but Quinn says the practice of it is far from perfect...
...Drugs are prescribed [at UHS] without patients being in talk therapy or a suggestion of restructuring the way they live life,” Quinn says. “No matter how great a drug is, if you go home to a place with no one to talk to, you’re not going to be better...