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Comment on What Happened at the Guidance Center in Flagstaff, AZ by Malene Comes
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I was severely food insecure, frequently hungry, and overwhelmed with the legal aspects of applying for disability, and the struggles with medical providers at the Guidance Center became the last push for me to become suicidal for the first time in 12 years. My former therapist maintained that she had done everything perfectly and refused to acknowledge accountability for issuing a 72-hour hold based on suicidal ideation, not based on suicidal risk, which is the industry standard and the ethical approach. This means that when their clinicians refuse or are untrained to do a full suicide assessment, and send someone on a hold to their PAC unit, TGC makes the money on assessment and on hospitalization.