TW (Suicide)
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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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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Take the last time I did this for example. I had overdosed, and I’d become too ill to take a lethal quantity of the substance in question. I knew that.
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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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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Ambulance if she didn’t. I thought their attendance unnecessary as I knew my overdose wouldn’t kill me (even though that’s what I had wanted). I also knew from previous experiences there was no way they would let me refuse to attend hospital. So I agreed to let my mum take
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me instead, and I complied with treatment so they didn’t restrain me and force it, despite the fact I didn’t want any of it.
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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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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the meantime, so I wouldn’t be sectioned, and then I could return home faster to re-plan and try again.
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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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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my mind was still entirely focused upon how to achieve my wish to die, despite it appearing on the surface that I was seeking help/didn’t really want to die.
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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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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ask me, I’d say what I was doing was all rather logical in relation to my end goal - so why can’t clinicians see that? 🤔
#NHS #MentalHealth #Suicide #SuicidePrevention #ActuallyAutistic #HarmedByPDLabel
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#NHS #MentalHealth #Suicide #SuicidePrevention #ActuallyAutistic #HarmedByPDLabel
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