My Support Forums - View Single Post - Afraid to tell T about obsession with death

SlumberKitty · May 16, 2022 at 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by LonesomeTonight

From my understanding, they're only legally obliged to tell your doctor (though unsure about this part) or potentially send you to the ER if you have the desire, a plan, a means to carry out the plan, and intent to carry it out. If they're more general suicidal feelings, like ideation, they wouldn't need to do anything.

But some T's are also jumpier than others about things like that.

Yes, some T's are jumpier than others. Most of my T's have trusted me to tell them when I needed to go to the hospital. One T sent me to the hospital when I knew I didn't really need to go. It almost jeopardized my place in IOP and it was a huge headache. I didn't appreciate that. I knew she was trying to keep me safe, and she was still like a trainee so maybe she didn't trust herself to know if one was truly suicidal. I like when T's have trust in the patient that they aren't going to act on the thoughts, they just need to talk about it.