Patients who come to the hospital for mental health issues usually go there because there are no other places to go to for help.
Kingston Health Sciences Centre offers a wide spectrum of programs to help people both young and old deal with mental health issues.
They carry a number of in-patient and out-patient programs as well as addiction recovery programs.
Operation Director for Mental Health and Addiction Care at KHSC Nicholas Axas says one of them is mental health detox.
Axas adds the program is the only one that is publicly-funded and provided free of charge.
Patients who come to the hospital for mental health issues usually go there because there are no other places to go to for help.
Axas says it is often a last resort.
Axas says there is still a stigma out there about mental illness.
He says it is OK to speak out and ask for help.
Axas says it is great to have occasions like Mental Health Week to bring the issue to light, but mental health should be on top on everyone's minds every day.
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