Understanding the Risks of Recent Discharge: The Phenomenological Experiences: Trying to Survive While Living Under the Proverbial “Sword of Damocles”

BACKGROUND: Evidence indicates that people whose mental health problems lead them to require psychiatric hospitalization are at a significantly increased risk of suicide, and the period of time immediately following discharge after such hospitalizations appears to be a particularly high-risk time. AIMS: This paper reports on phenomenological findings from a federally funded, mixed-methods study that sought to better understand the observed …