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Originally Posted by misskeena
I don't think that discussing a fear of ODing regarding you starting meds would wind up in a forced trip to the hospital. In my experience (and this is coming from someone who has been inpatient 4 times) a trip to the hospital comes from suicidal ideation with a plan, and/or that you will not or cannot keep yourself safe. That and/or you've already acted on a plan. I mean, I don't know what the involuntary process is in your state, but that's how it goes down here. I mean, you should be able to feel like you can discuss your fears with your T without having to worry that they're going to lock you up. They will probably ask you if you feel like you need to go to the hospital and, if you say no, they will ask you what plan you will have in place to keep yourself safe.
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I'm not sure what the process is in my state either - most of my fear is coming from the other two times I was hospitalized. My T knows that I SI and that lately it's been happening a lot. We had talked about it in one session and he said that he is concerned that I will "accidentally" do real damage to myself one day because I will take things just a little too far and that this will surprise me. I feel like the same thing will happen with meds - that I will be in the middle of a bad episode and latch on to the idea of wanting to sleep to stop the pain and not be calm or rational enough to wait for the effects of the first med to kick in before I take a second, and a third, and a fourth, and so on.
I agree with you that I should be able to be honest with him and discuss my fears since he should be able to help me with them. I didn't think about coming up with a plan to keep myself safe though...maybe if I have that with me if I talk to him, it might keep him from feeling like he has to have me locked up.