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Post-Camping Depression: A Lethal Possibility

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.128.1.109

A two-day therapeutic camping trip with the patients, their relatives, and the staff of an adult treatment team at the Fort Logan Mental Health Center in Denver was followed by widespread depressive symptoms in many. The post-camping letdown resulted in the suicide of one patient and a suicidal gesture by another. The author suggests some possible explanations and preventive approaches.

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