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Originally Posted by Readytostop
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...
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Actually, it does and I think it's a good idea. The thing is sometimes i think he just has a problem remembering things, and i know that sounds odd. But for instance, there have been times when we were face to face like 6 months ago and i told him i was so depressed i wanted to die but would never do anything- yet he didn't really react much at all. So i don't know why he acted that way when ive told him that i used to cut all the time but never to die, only to cope. I've also told him that i would take myself to the ER if i ever felt like hurting myself because i have a dog im way attached to and would never leave him. But i do believe a conversation is needed, i just feel kinda dumb