11-19-2013, 09:56 PM
Untreated mental illness strikes again
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Gus Deeds was a banjo and guitar player, the Valedictorian of his high school, and a student at William & Mary til about a month ago. It's not been released as to what sort of psychiatric issues he was experiencing.
Snip:
Senator Deeds was listed in fair condition late Tuesday after his son, Austin, stabbed him in the face and chest, then shot himself in what investigators described as an apparent attempted murder and suicide.
The day before he apparently stabbed his father at the family’s home in rural Bath County, the son of Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds (D) underwent a psychiatric evaluation but was not admitted to a hospital, because no bed was available.
Rockbridge officials had called hospitals in the area looking for a spot but were unable to find one, Bergeron said. “I can tell you right now, it was multiple hospitals that they called,” she said. “That is a very rural area. The hospitals are few and far between.”
Bergeron said local hospitals have been reducing and in some cases eliminating psychiatric wards, making it more difficult to find spots for people requiring involuntary detention, particularly in more rural parts of the state.
Full Story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-5...r-suicide/
Gus Deeds was a banjo and guitar player, the Valedictorian of his high school, and a student at William & Mary til about a month ago. It's not been released as to what sort of psychiatric issues he was experiencing.
Snip:
Senator Deeds was listed in fair condition late Tuesday after his son, Austin, stabbed him in the face and chest, then shot himself in what investigators described as an apparent attempted murder and suicide.
The day before he apparently stabbed his father at the family’s home in rural Bath County, the son of Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds (D) underwent a psychiatric evaluation but was not admitted to a hospital, because no bed was available.
Rockbridge officials had called hospitals in the area looking for a spot but were unable to find one, Bergeron said. “I can tell you right now, it was multiple hospitals that they called,” she said. “That is a very rural area. The hospitals are few and far between.”
Bergeron said local hospitals have been reducing and in some cases eliminating psychiatric wards, making it more difficult to find spots for people requiring involuntary detention, particularly in more rural parts of the state.
Full Story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-5...r-suicide/