MH professionals have a tendency to assume that if you go to hospital voluntarily following an attempt on your life (even with significant pressure and persuasion from others), then you didn’t really want to die. This however is rather flawed in some cases.
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As I was presenting so unwell, my mum eventually worked out what I’d done and told others, who said they’d call an
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You see, after the initial attempt didn’t work out, I figured the best way to achieve a successful overdose was to comply with what others’ wanted in
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There was no point trying to refuse treatment when I didn’t think I’d taken a lethal overdose anyway, because I wouldn’t achieve my desired outcome.
So, as you can see,
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And that’s how easily behaviours can be misread if you don’t know what someone’s thinking really is. Yet if you
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