- She spends over a week in the emergency dept. at Boston Children's.
- A bed opens up in the hospital proper; she spends another ~3 weeks there.
- She moves to an inpatient treatment center (of the kind advocated by the doctor quoted above), spends a week there, and doesn't find it very helpful.
- She returns home and spends the summer working at a fast-food place; she still self-harms but manages to hide it for a while.
- In the fall, suicidal again (or perhaps she always was), she returns to the inpatient facility for two more weeks, then transitions into an outpatient program.
- She's still having a hard time, so she goes to a different hospital and stays for three weeks. By now it's mid October 2021 (iiuc); her initial visit to Boston Children's was in late April.
- The last update is that she continues to self-harm, has gotten better at hiding it, and has learned not to admit to adults that she's suicidal.
Pretty f'ing bleak! Not that I would have any idea who or what to blame in such a situation. The silver lining is that this person is still alive, a year after the first hospitalization.