Edit: Apparently this community is too mentally healthy/sound to even recognize this meme lol

Count yourselves lucky.

  • peopleproblems
    89•9 months ago

    While funny, please don’t be afraid to tell your therapist.

    If they put me in grippy socks for having suicidal idealation I would probably have my own dedicated room.

    Therapists are there to help us with this shit, not make us fear getting better. If your therapist doesn’t know, they can’t help.

    • Mario_Dies.wav
      33•9 months ago

      I didn’t have my own room when they put me in there for suicidal thoughts, and insurance wanted me out before I was well, so they discharged me with no way home

      • @What083329420@lemmy.world
        11•9 months ago

        True. They exhaust all other efforts before putting you in. It’s super expensive and its a lot healthier to be home if you can

        • Mario_Dies.wav
          10•9 months ago

          For me, it was the fucking hotline that did it. They asked me if I had a plan, and I said yes, because I absolutely had a plan for exactly how I’d do it, still do. Apparently, that gets interpreted as “I plan to do it.”

          If I was going to actually do it, do you think I’d be calling the helpline? Hell, no!

          I’m never calling that damn number again.

    • @nadiaraven@lemmy.world
      16•9 months ago

      Some therapists will help, others won’t. Some psych wards will help, others will give you more trauma. I recommend caution and research before telling a therapist about suicidal thoughts. I had a real bad experience at the behavioral health emergency center in Charlotte NC, and that wasn’t even overnight. I’ve heard good things about some residential places here in Oregon.

      • @Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de
        6•9 months ago

        This may depend on the country but I as a therapist ask everyone anyway. And I’ve experienced many, many people over the years being afraid of speaking up. It’s always a moment of relief when it’s out there and they realize I’m not freaking out over it.

        I’ve pretty much heard it all. Including the various ways people try to approach the subject while still unsure how I will react. And I do think that is something you could try if you’re unsure about your therapist - talk to them about your suicidal thoughts and see how they react before you confirm plans or attempts.

        Chances are of course they can get quite a bit from your way of talking about it, because you’re definitely not the first person with those thoughts in front of them. The thing is - suicidal ideation is, depending on the type of disorder, quite common. If we’d admitted anyone who thought about suicide to a psych ward immediately they would be bursting at the seams and we’d get nothing done at all. So that’s not happening. As long as you can convincingly agree with your therapist on a plan forward (which could mean: Okay, I promise not to kill myself until next Tuesday) you don’t have to be admitted if you don’t want to. Which also would be an option of course. Psychiatric wards are emergency departments. They are supposed to be there for you when you’re seeing no light at all and in my experience, at least where I live and work, in fact have saved quite a few lifes.

  • Aviandelight
    80•9 months ago

    Grippy socks are standard issue for all in-patients in most US hospitals because they prevent falls and the floor is nasty. Seriously please wear them during your stay.

  • nevial
    69•9 months ago

    "Apparently this community is too mentally healthy/sound to even recognize this meme lol

    Count yourselves lucky."

    In my country, we just don’t have those

  • Franzia
    21•9 months ago

    Hey my therapist was cool as fuck. If you need someone to talk about suicidal ideations with though you can call a number on

    warmline.org

    The people who answer are peer support. People who have suffered too and spend time answering mental health calls.

  • @Depress_Mode@lemmy.world
    16•9 months ago

    Ok kids, let’s review the requisites for involuntary hospitalization in the US (specifically regarding suicidal ideation)!

    Do you:

    1. Have a plan? ✔️

    2. Have the means to carry out that plan? ✔️

    3. Expressed the intention to carry out that plan in the immediate future? ✔️

    If all of the above are true and you tell your mental health professional, then you better pack those bags! If not, you get to go home.

    (That said, I’ve at least heard stories of some mental health clinicians apparently not understanding these minimum guidelines and committing people involuntarily with only 1 or 2 of these requisites having been met, so it may be worth it to review these guidelines with your clinician before getting too deep into it)

    • Turducken
      8•9 months ago

      I’m good, how are you?

      Before we go any further, let me explain to you the guidelines for involuntary committment for suicidal ideation.

      Hmmmmm

    • @Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de
      2•9 months ago

      There are cases where psychiatric admission is the right call though. Sometimes it’s literally life saving. Depression isn’t static - it goes up and down, goes loud, goes silent. When you’re deep in a life crisis, when you’re feeling like you’re losing your fucking mind and are actually about to kill yourself those are the places to go to get you over those critical days or weeks to recalibrate and reconsider. I’ve personally spoken to many patients who were completely releived afterwards and glad that there was such a place for them. If the alternative is a lost life, psychiatry is a valid attempt to get better, even if it doesn’t work for everyone.

      Of course it’s an even better route to get there by admitting oneself - I just believe the likelihood of that happening depends a lot on how afraid people are of psychiatric clinics. And they do vary of course. I personally still would go though. Before I end my life I guess there wouldn’t be anything to lose anyway.