Mental Healthcare costs thousands of dollars and is hard to access? That's crazy!
Mental Healthcare costs thousands of dollars and is hard to access? That's crazy!
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!
Doesn’t make sense to send people to the ER? I’ve read too many tales of people going themselves or taking someone else and the ER kinda shrugs because they’re not equipped to really deal with whether or not to commit someone, or if they can hold someone, it’s usually only for very short periods of something like 24-48 hours.
If you have any insight that would be great.
My therapist does role plays with me. I do an I'm-okay act, and they do a baker act.
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.
I've been to grippy sock jail before. Plus side You get snack time, arts and crafts sleepy meds, down side your roommate may throw poo at you