Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.


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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY
You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY
Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY
Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY
My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY
Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY
I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY
I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY
Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. SHANNON
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
R. VENNING
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
R. PALMER
Life is too short to learn German.
R. PORSON
If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru...
R. FOREMAN
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
R. DRABEK
Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ...
R. TURNBULL
We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
R. SOUTHWELL
The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
R. POCOCK
When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my...
R. KOHELET
Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill...
R. VENNING
Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS
'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's...
R. KELLY
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. KELLY
In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears ar...
FRIDA R.
I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in...
R. KELLY
People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you withou...
R. KELLY
My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ...
R. KELLY
When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ...
R. KELLY
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
R. KELLY
Day drinking with a broken heart
is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports,
tryna...
FRIDA R.
The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.
R. STEVENS
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'...
R. STEVENS
Wasting sarcasm is a sin.
R. STEVENS
Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification?
R. STEVENS
I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of ...
R. STEVENS
Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.
R. STEVENS
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the pi...
R. KELLY
I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
R. GEIS
I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
R. KELLY
I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
GOPAKUMAR R
I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use V...
GOPAKUMAR R
'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it&#...
R. KELLY
'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I...
R. KELLY
I have always been infatuated with country music.
R. KELLY
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l...
R. KELLY
Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you m...
R ZACCHARIAS
As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. I...
R. KELLY
Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've ...
R. KELLY
I slept and I dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and ...
R. TAGORE