Understanding the Risks of Recent Discharge: The Phenomenological Lived Experiences – “Existential Angst at the Prospect of Discharge”

BACKGROUND: Evidence indicates that people whose mental health problems lead them to require psychiatric hospitalization are at a significantly increased risk of suicide, and that the time immediately following discharge after such hospitalizations is 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 increased risk for …