I am perfectly safe and this is not a "suicidal post", but it is a question about suicidal thoughts.

I have written elsewhere that I have had thoughts of death, suicide for a couple of years now.

I found the thoughts very frightening at first and they had a certain element of compulsion / goading, I think I thought they meant that I would end up acting on them.

I can't say the contents of the thoughts have changed over that time, although some days they are more frequent than others, but I am wondering whether just having them means I am at risk of acting on them at some point, or am I just worrying unnecessarily.

Now that I am able to separate myself from them, does it make them harmless?