San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital staff

From a client letter to the San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital staff:

“Upon my admittance to EPU [Emergency Psychiatric Unit] on March 30, I was extremely intimidated with the fear of the unknown…I felt extremely alone and I thought nobody understood, better yet I felt nobody cared enough to help. Once I moved to the CRU [Client Recovery Unit] I felt a complete sense of calmness, and on my first day people were interested to know things about me and not my mental illness. Questions were proposed to me such as “What can we do for you to make you feel more comfortable?” It was all about me! For once people cared. If there were not a facility like this many people would not be here, including myself…Thank you from the bottom of my heart!"