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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
I told my T my thoughts of harming others / myself all the time. We came up with a couple of safety plans for when I'm impulsive. There's three things that need to be active to be commitable: Thought, plan, intent. If you have all three then you usually get hospitalized but one or two you come out with a safety plan.
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It might also help, and I am completely honest, to come up with a "harming" plan: something you might do to harm yourself which isn't life-threatening or that threatens your present situation and future (chances), made very explicit and limiting (so you describe a way and extent). Or maybe something that simulates what you want to do, but is completely harmless.
In times that you feel loss of control or you feel you want to end it, being impulsive, you can execute that plan as a replacement for potentially worse things.
An example could be maybe playing a video game where you can shoot people or boxing or something that gives you instant and very high anxiety (so as to incapacitate you).