dalmatianed:

lorazeskux:

Afahahagaah suicide jail

1. Unless you tell a professional that you have a plan and a date to kill yourself, you’re not getting committed. If you show up to the ER with suicidal ideation that’s a different story, but no therapist or psychiatrist actively wants to send people to psych. They will talk through it with you, tell you their intentions, and call someone close to you before anything else. I’ve literally shown up to appointments w my psychiatrist and been like “I was going to kill myself this morning but I didn’t” and he talked thru it with me and trusted when I told him I didn’t need to be committed.

2. The month before I attempted I told my therapist I wanted to die in every session but I was never forcibly committed, she only strongly suggested I go to the ER.

3. Fear mongering about psych is not fucking helping anyone. Of course I hated getting sent to suicide jail for 12 days. But that was after I tried to overdose with intent of dying. I no longer had a choice in the matter. I had finally pushed past the point where my decisions were sustainable at all.

4. Tell your therapist the truth. Tell them you’ve been having suicidal thoughts. They don’t want you in the hospital any more than you want it.