CW self harm and suicidal ideation
Depending on where you are, please be honest with your therapist. Usually they can’t (and don’t want to) get you committed unless they’re convinced you’re in immediate danger of badly harming yourself or others. If that’s the case, maybe going to the hospital isn’t a bad idea. I’ve talked to my therapist about suicidal ideation, frequent dreams about suicide that I found pleasant, and about self harming, and she never even considered it. All she did was refer me to a psychiatrist, but I wasn’t forced to see her, let alone committed to a hospital.
Do look up whether the rules are different in your country, though.
As a therapist, I totally agree with what you’ve written above. However, I also have the unfortunate experience of working with mental health providers (mainly psychiatrists in pill-kiosk roles) who will send patients to the ER if they mention any suicidal ideation out of a paranoid fear of losing their license. Thankfully, ER doctors tend to actually assess the seriousness of said ideation and don’t admit people who aren’t seriously considering self-harm, but it’s still an ordeal.
So, I would simply add to your advice that if any mental health provider calls 911 at the mere mention of suicidal thoughts, get yourself a new provider immediately. That provider either hasn’t learned how to properly assess suicidality or is too chicken-shit to do it (far more likely, the latter).
Thanks for the professional insight!
I don’t have the ability to talk to a therapist, but I do have have access to Lemmy. 👍
Free sock tho
“I request line-item billing please.”
Grippy socks: 14 @ $87.61 ea
14?? How long were you in the hospital?
(Theoretically) 7 days. One pair per day, even if you didn’t use em.
Awful anti glide socks though.
My therapist does role plays with me. I do an I’m-okay act, and they do a baker act.
As someone who never had any mental problem or childhood trauma, this took me way too many comments to understand.
I still don’t get it. They’re telling you to stop? With a stopper sock?
They’re socks with grippy material on the bottom to keep you from slipping. They give them to you when you’re admitted to the hospital. The implication is that they were sent to the psych ward and put on suicide watch.
It is my understanding that the joke is misinterpreted or maybe correctly interpreted as some serious problem with the person, so that the therapist puts them in a mental hospital, where those things are worn instead of shoes.
I’m legit wearing these around the house right now lmao
Hell yeah. I was in the hospital recently for some heart stuff. I kept the socks cuz they’re comfy.
Pshrinks don’t have a sense of humor.
