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Get Well Cards for Psychiatric Patients
I was wondering if there was a website that allowed you to send cards to mental health patients so that they know that others are thinking of them. I can't find anything, so anything that is helpful would be appreciated! :)
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I am going to assume that you are talking about mental patients living at a facility, not simply the thousands of people who are mental health patients but live lives at home, might have jobs and families and aren’t very different from a ‘normal person’.
The very core of the reason that people choose to, or are compelled too, live at a psychiatric treatment centre, is because their interaction with the rest of the world is problematic, and needs to be controlled and monitored.
For that reason, I highly doubt that there is any way for you to do what you are asking about. I’m sure you mean well and have the best intentions, but your communication might interfere with their treatment, and the doctors aren’t going to allow that.
Also, a lot of patients once they reach the point that they need an assisted living arrangement might not ‘get well’.
Adopt a grandparent or senior if you want to offer support to someone who might be lonely or suffering. I bet if you contacted a home for the elderly and said you’d like a pen pal they would be delighted to set you up! Even write a prison inmate (carefully, and only if you are over 18). Prison inmates have been shown to benefit from correspondence with friends outside of prison.
I know you want to help, but I have some experience at live-in psychiatric facilities and what you are suggesting wouldn’t be helpful for most of the patients there. It would only be confusing, and maybe a little insulting to receive such a correspondence from a stranger.
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