BG,

I'm new here and perhaps there are better people to respond. I had a conversation with my T. about overwelming feelings of despair. He asked if I wanted to hurt myself during those times and I said NO. He asked if I did have those feelings, would I call him and I said NO. He was very upset. I know that T. has obligation to report any incidents where he believes I would hurt myself or others. We ended up discussing it more and came to this conclusion....I promised to tell him if I "FELT" like I wanted to hurt myself if He promised to trust my response to the question "would I act on those feelings"....because there have been time that I want to stop the pain but it doesn't mean I would act on it....

Maybe a face to face discussion about the wording of emails....what certain words mean to him vs what they mean to you...how to be able to say I"m concerned because I feel these feelings" and when he should know you mean "I'm scared cause I feel like I'm going to do something drastic"...

I don't know if any of that helped...