This has been a very tough day - all professional advice we have received so far has been (including Vinu and Mini) to admit P in a hospital immediately. We met with Dr. Vasudev Jhanwar - at Deva Mental Institute - he said his doctors could come today, evaluate P and make a decision either to treat him at OPD (impossible) or admit him involuntarily.
Inspite of this my instincts tell me that we need to wait and try some way to get him to either Bangalore (ideal) or some other place closer (Ahmedabad?). Maybe Doshi can invite him to come there and it will be much simpler - going to try this tomorrow. Prasanna thinks this is wasting time and that we should go with all the professional advice we have received so far… But admitting him here isn't really a workable solution given the unsurity of how long his treatments going to take. And being so far away makes it difficult to attend to P. I hope he will bite the bait and come to Ahmedabad or Bangalore and we can do this properly. Doshi was very vary of taking drastic measures - "Isn't he operating ok? Is he violent? Does he pose a threat to other people?"
Inspite of this my instincts tell me that we need to wait and try some way to get him to either Bangalore (ideal) or some other place closer (Ahmedabad?). Maybe Doshi can invite him to come there and it will be much simpler - going to try this tomorrow. Prasanna thinks this is wasting time and that we should go with all the professional advice we have received so far… But admitting him here isn't really a workable solution given the unsurity of how long his treatments going to take. And being so far away makes it difficult to attend to P. I hope he will bite the bait and come to Ahmedabad or Bangalore and we can do this properly. Doshi was very vary of taking drastic measures - "Isn't he operating ok? Is he violent? Does he pose a threat to other people?"
How can you, of all the people pose any threat to anybody but yourself?!
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