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.

1/ 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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