03-28-2012, 05:44 PM
space-time wrote:
I got in touch with an old friend via email, to find out a few weeks ago that he wasn't doing very well. He was a very successful professional; he was in various positions such as vice-president, COO, CTO of respectable companies. Now he's in a "closed psychiatric ward" and I am surprised they let him have email access and he can even do some work. I would imagine they would take one's laptop and cell phone in such an institution so they can forget about the outside world and their problems and focus on their own treatment.
Every situation is different. Some people are sequestered to protect them from the outside world, others to protect them from themselves. Sounds like his doctors feel that maintaining some contact with the outside world is beneficial to him rather than detrimental. It is good that they are treating him as an individual.