How is cutting off a depressed person from the positive factors in their life (future, friends, studies, activities) considered taking care of the patient?
Wouldn't you imagine that blowing the floor out from under an elite college student with friends and interests and a future and sending them to a dead-end, alone, in their parents house would make things a great deal worse? If I were considering suicide even with all those positive things in my life, there'd be no consideration necessary when they were taken away.
Instead, the knowledge that this could happen just provides pretty damn compelling reason not to seek therapy or even support from friends.
Wouldn't you imagine that blowing the floor out from under an elite college student with friends and interests and a future and sending them to a dead-end, alone, in their parents house would make things a great deal worse? If I were considering suicide even with all those positive things in my life, there'd be no consideration necessary when they were taken away.
Instead, the knowledge that this could happen just provides pretty damn compelling reason not to seek therapy or even support from friends.