E253: Six Days in a Mental Health Hospital

Rick "went on vacation in Belmont, MA" and spent six days at McLean Hospital, a renowned psychiatric care, research, and education facility. He talks about what led him to admit himself, and walks us through the whole experience from intake to discharge. Did Rick come out a better man? You decide!

RICK'S MESSAGE TO LISTENERS - If you are suffering from depression and do not know where to begin recovery, please call 988. It is the mental health number for crisis support in the United States and is available 24/7 for anyone experiencing a mental health crisis. You can also reach out to the National Mental Health Hotline at 866-903-3787.

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About the Podcast

Small Town Scuttlebutt

We react to the overreactions of small town problems.

Making sense of what’s happening in our society is complicated. From the perpetual virtue-signaling to the over-reliance on water bottles, small towns across the globe are facing serious challenges. The man-bun, mommy blogs, and people who consider figure skating a sport; they’re all egregiously wrong!

So, if your typical day is stymied by self-checkout machines that always need an employee override or your inbox is flooded with way too many over-worded emails from your kid’s school, we can commiserate.

Join us as we critically examine these quandaries and more every Tuesday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere else cool podcasts are found.

Check us out online at smalltownscuttlebutt.com.

About your hosts

Rick Fink Jr.

Rick Fink Jr. is the co-creator and host of Small Town Scuttlebutt and a stay-at-home-dad. As an emerging comic in the Boston area during the pandemic, Rick sought podcasting as an alternative to live performing. Rick's first time on stage in front of a microphone occurred in second grade when he won a chickadee mating call contest.

Episode 253