Table 5.

Intact trust group: indirect benefits

Theme	Example quotations
Greater family support	“It made me a lot closer to my family because it made me see how much they actually did care about how I was doing and I got a lot closer with my parents, I got a lot closer with my sister. So, in that sense, it was a benefit.”
	“[it] definitely [affected] my relationship with my parents. It really opened up the conversation for what can we do, because I don’t want to say they were ignoring it, but it was definitely hard for them to think about their child being in such distress. After.. .they were like, something clearly is not right in your life and we want to help you with that. That really…that was a big change in my relationship with my parents”
Wake up call	“I’ve become a much more like independent person, and I’m working towards being a lot more positive, because that was kind of like, just a big low period for me. Seeing what it was like inside the facility, and seeing some of the other patients and stuff, it kind of just made me want to get better because I don’t want to go back to something like that.”
	“The [involuntary hospitalization] was definitely a motivating factor to change within myself. Instead of railing against everything in my life that was staying the same. I just kind of wanted to do things for myself, and be able to say that I was dealing with it. It motivated me to not do the things I was doing to not handle things in the same way. To stop harming myself.”
Perspective taking	“[Most other inpatients] were significantly younger than me. It made me realize how lucky I was in my situation because they were these 10-year-old kids that had abusive parents and things like that and it just made me more grateful for what I had and where I was coming from.”
	“In retrospect, [it] did give me insight into - “okay, there’s a lot of people here who have much worse lives than me.”