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What Would Happen If I Told A Crisis Worker/doctor That Im Suicidal

If I tell my school counselor I'm suicidal what will happen?

Most likely your college counselor will help you find the help you need to resolve the suicidal thoughts. If you are able to keep yourself safe from harming yourself, the counselor will work with you to find out what is causing these thoughts. If you can not keep yourself safe, the counselor can help you with the options needed to stay safe. Most important is for you to be honest with the counselor so you get the right type of help.

Keep reaching out to others to get the help you are looking for. If you want to talk to one of our short term crisis counselors by phone, we are here to listen to you and to help you stay safe. We are a 24/7 crisis hotline.

Karen, counselor

What happens if I call a suicide hotline?

I want to call a suicide hotline so that I can talk to someone. But will I be admitted to a psych ward or will the police be contacted at all?

What's the protocol for this kind of thing? Just talk to someone and then they'll let me go when I'm finished talking?

Does my question make sense?

What happens if I tell my psychiatrist I'm feeling suicidal?

We’ll talk about it. Figure out, if you have a handle of things (which the first step is talking to someone about it), if you are a danger to yourself, what your triggers are, and what the underlying issues could be.Then we design a treatment plan. We don’t just want you not to kill yourself, we want to address the pain or numbness that makes you want to kill yourself, we want you to be safe, and we want to return you to a time where you enjoyed life, loved and cherished it, and wanted it to go as long as possible and feasible.Adjusting your medicine is one thing that can be done. It might help, by removing hormonal imbalances it might have caused. A psychiatrist would know more, but it’s very, very, rare that medication is just removed from your therapy, because that’s not a good idea, either.Your PCP might know a little bit about this, but the specialist is a better partner. Wouldn’t drive your Porsche to a Honda Dealership to have a complicated engine repair done, would you?They’re asking, because maybe these are rare side effects of the medication you’re on, or because some of things you describe could lead them to believe you might be. Be honest, accept help, accept the work that comes with it, and you have a good chance at getting better.

What will happen if I go to hospital for suicidal thoughts?

I'm 17 years old and supported by camhs. I've had suicidal thoughts for 5 days now,I've told my workers at CAMHS but they're not really doing anything. I've self harmed loads and much deeper than I usually do. For 3 days, on a night I tie a shoe lace around my neck and hope I don't wake up in the morning. My mums said she's sending me away but it still hasn't happened(she says that to scare me) and camhs don't think I'm I'll enough after loads of attempts of suicide and hospitalisation. If you could give me some answers to what will happen if I go to hospital, that will be great! Please don't leave nasty comments. Thank you!

Should I tell my therapist about suicidal thoughts?

For several reasons, yes.

Firstly, contrary to what most people think, a therapist will not put you in hospital - or even on watch - for saying that you have thoughts or ideations of suicide. The only way they will intervene in these situations is if they specifically believe that you are likely to actually attempt suicide. If you have "a plan". They know that thoughts of suicide are not uncommon, and this is not necessarily a healthy or happy prospect, it's not something to immediately panic about. There's so much of a stigma attached to mental illness and suicide, and people often don't know how to react to it - if someone talks about ending their life, the reaction is so often "quick, send them away, lock them up in a room with padded walls" when perhaps more good will come from actually talking about it, and addressing issues head on, through things like therapy. Trained, experienced therapists know this.

Secondly, your therapist cannot help you if you aren't honest with her about what you are going through, just as a doctor cannot diagnose you correctly if you lie about your symptoms (unless he's Dr House).

Thirdly, even if you and your therapist talk and she suggests an in-patient situation, where you go to a clinic for a few weeks, or perhaps even an indefinite amount of time (which is much more likely than her kidnapping you from your bed and sending you away to a hospital with barbed-wire fences - often, admissions to psychiatric facilities are done with the consent of the patient), it may even be for the best. Perhaps it is just what you need to do to make some progress with your condition.

If you have no intention of telling your therapist about these thoughts, then please call a toll-free crisis line (you should be able to find one for your country or state if you Google it, or message me, and I'll look it up for you). You can remain anonymous, and the person on the other end will just talk to you and let you get things off your chest. Similarly, you could try a depression/mental health forum where you can talk to people going through exactly the same thing as you.

All the best.

How do i tell my teacher i am suicidal?

I have been feeling really suicidal and i am likely to attempt it. Its not that i am depressed or anything but i dont want to live anymore.

Everyone is going to die anyway right?
And the voice in my head is telling me to jump off the school roof. It isnt like a genuine voice but my thinking voice.

I want to tell a teacher i trust so that i can get help. But i dont know how.

The thing is that i know that he would have to report it and tell my parents but i am not at all close to my parents and they will think i am attention seeking and will hate me. And ask why and that my life is great.

Since i always hide everything and act completely normal.

If i tell my teacher during lunch tomorrow what will he do straight afterwards?
Would he tell me to go with him to the counsellor, i hate the councellor and wouldnt tell her a thing? I dont want to get my teacher into trouble.

How can i get help if my parents are quite strict and will be annoyed?
And how should i tell my teacher?
Should i tell him so i can get help or should i just attempt it and die?

I am in no way seeking attention.
I am 13 and live in the UK by the way.

Thank you for answering.

Mental Illness: Should I tell my doctor I'm homicidal?

I will be the single dissenting voice (as Quora is meant to provide).I say NO, don’t tell your doctor. Get HELP now! You KNOW you need help, you KNOW your thoughts are wrong and abnormal. If you tell your doctor that you are homicidal, he will be obligated to tell the police, and you won’t be talking to that doctor anymore. You will forever be branded as a dangerous psych patient.Get the help you KNOW and you UNDERSTAND you need. Don’t hurt anyone, please. No one could stop you even if you went into the police station and confessed these thoughts. Just get help. Tell your doctor EVERYTHING except how much you want to kill someone.If you continue to feel homicidal after all this help, then YES of course tell your doctor that you can’t shake the homicidal feelings.A truly crazy person doesn’t know the difference between wrong and right. You do, and you’re asking Quora. Fix your problem without revealing that one piece of information. You will be involuntarily committed to a mental hospital and lose your rights.Everyone gets angry, and a lot of people say’s “I could kill them for doing that.”Just don’t, and get the help you need. It’s that simple.Best of luck to you…, and the person you hate so much.

If I tell a teacher I self harm and am suicidal, will the school tell both of my parents, or just the one I live with?

First off, you can check this out:HomeThat is a suicide prevention website.I work in a health office (Nurse’s Office) at an elementary school (kinder - 6th) in California. I am not a psychiatrist, psychologist, Doctor, or a Nurse. I am an EMT. I have had children tell me they did not want to live anymore. I have also had children admit to me that they cut themselves. I have had to make too many CPS reports for other things I don't want to talk about.Every school district has a policy in place that dictates what a teacher must do if a child tells them they are feeling suicidal. Those policies will likely vary somewhat from school to school.In my district, it is supposed to go something like this:Typically, a friend of the child would come to their teacher, me or some other trusted staff member. If it is the teacher, they will either bring the student to the Health Office, the Vice Principal, or Principal, after asking a few questions to make sure this is real. It is pretty heartbreaking and shocking to have someone tell you the don't want to live anymore. Any one of us is to immediately notify the special services department. They, in turn, send one of the district psychologists out to the school site. They interview the child and make the determination of whether or not to realease to a parent or recommend they check into a facility for a 24 - 48 hour “suicide watch.” I've seen it go different ways. Sometimes the parents will take them to their family Dr for a referral to a Psychiatrist or Psycologist. Sometimes the parent will take them to the County Department of Mental Health. I've seen them call the Dept. Of Mental Health, the kid will talk to a counselor over the phone and they made an appointment for a week later. One time the kid was was really ready to go. We had to call an ambulance that time.As far as who we would notify -We always try to work together with the student’s best interest at heart. There are so many factors that would influence that part of it. There could be custody issues or court orders If you have a good reason why you don't want a particular parent called, And talk openly and honestly, they will do everything they can to help you.

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