When I have been the most suicidal, I rarely reach out for help, though, mid-attempt, I thought “oh, crap. This was a bad idea” and got myself to the ER for medical treatment. One time I flat out lied to my pdoc about ideation when I had significant intent.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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