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Oct 30, 2019, 12:57 AM
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Member Since: Oct 2019
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Originally Posted by Twitch99
@ Lilly2 I tried telling my last psychiatrist that I have suffered from suicidal thoughts over the last 30 or so years. He couldn't help me and referred me to an IOP facility where I told them the same thing after 1 week & 1 day they called the cops on me. |
@Twitch99
Are you a veteran?
Here are some additional things you can ask yourself to see if your sui thoughts are connected and more complex. Maybe you need a specialist in a certain area, such as neuroscience or neuropsychology.
Here are the questions:
What age did you begin having these thoughts?
What was going on around the time you first started having these thoughts?
Did your thoughts worsen over time?
Did you experience any accidents involving head injuries, including even minor head bumps with no concussions?
Were you on a sports team?
Are you a veteran?
Did you experience childhood abuse or neglect?
Were you ever involved in any physical fights in your lifetime?
Did you use drugs, alcohol, or any prescription meds before or during the time you started having these thoughts?
Did you ever use any illicit drugs in your lifetime?
Did you abuse alcohol in your lifetime?
Did you abuse over-the-counter medications in your lifetime?
Did you abuse prescription drugs in your lifetime?
What traumatic experiences have you had in your entire lifetime?
Did someone close to you pass away when you were a child or teenager?
What losses have you experienced in your entire lifetime?
Do you often have headaches? If so, when did they first begin? Do your headaches come before, during, or after your thoughts?
What kind of education have you had?
What jobs have you had?
How is your current relationship with your wife, children, family, and friends?
Do you often think about the past?
Do you experience nightmares?
Have you lost time or memories?
Do you have morbid and intrusive thoughts?
Do you experience flashbacks?
Do you feel unreal in the world, or does the world feel inreal to you?
Do you ruminate over past mistakes?
Do you ruminate over past conversations, relationships, and/or traumatic memories?
Do you experience a flooding of memories?
Do you experience a flooding of mixed emotions, like you are "going crazy"?
Have you ever felt happy in your lifetime? If so, when and in what context?
Have you ever had hopes or dreams or aspirations as a child, teen, or adult? If so, what were those dreams/aspirations?
What are you hopeful of today?
What are you grateful for today?
Describe what an average day and week look like.
What is your typical diet? What foods and beverages do you typically consume?
Do you have any medical conditions?
Have you ever been rich, or was your family rich?
Have you ever been poor, or was your family poor?
Did you ever experience homelessness? When? Why?
Did you ever experience discrimination, harassment, or bullying in the workplace or at school?
Were you hospitalized or seeking medical or mental health treatment as a child or teen?
Did you grow up in a traditional family, a single-parent household, or in foster care?
Did you have any major surgeries done in your lifetime?
Did you ever fall or get into a car accident?
Were you ever in a gang?
Were you ever beaten up?
Were you ever sexually assaulted?
Were you ever a victim of a crime?
Did you ever get convicted of a crime?
Do you have low self-esteem?
Do you feel inferior?
Have you ever been a leader?
What are your strengths?
What are your weaknesses?
Do you fear authority figures?
Do you dislike authority figures?
Do you have any specific phobias?
Were you ever abused in a hospital, by a therapist, by clergy, by a teacher, or by any other authority figure?
Does your wife or any of your children physically abuse you?
Has anyone close to you or your family experienced trauma or mental illness?
Do you feel burnt out?
Do you have feelings of shame? Why?
Do you have feelings of guilt? Why?
Do you practice or believe in a certain religion? If so, which one?
Do you have friends?
Do you feel lonely?
What other issues can you think of that might relate to your feelings and thoughts surrounding sui?
You do not have to answer these questions here, unless you want to.
Hope these questions help in some way.
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