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Re: Ok, I'm just being a chatty bitch here-

[(Anonymous)]

I had my fiance take me to the ER with mere passive suicidal ideation. I hadn't hurt myself. I didn't want to hurt myself. I just wished that I didn't exist. I had no prior history of any kind, either with suicidal thoughts or any kind of violence ever. I was taken in handcuffs via police car to a mental health facility under involuntary watch over the weekend.

Once I got to the facility, I was told that it's pretty much entirely at the discretion of the ER staff whether they think you pose a threat to yourself or others. The mental health professionals that I dealt with told me they thought the ER just didn't want to deal with a mental health case when I came in, because it was very unusual for a case like mine to be an involuntary hold with secure transport when I had come in voluntarily with another party to drive me.

Re: Ok, I'm just being a chatty bitch here-

[(Anonymous)]

^Above anon again. I'm in the southeast US.

Re: Ok, I'm just being a chatty bitch here-

[(Anonymous)]

jeez. i wonder how your case could've ended up in an actual mental health facility -- i had to get tested for ADHD and they figured out i had some form of depression (it's...tolerable, but i do get really low points now and then) that included suicidal ideation (i've never made attempts on my life but i have had troubling thoughts like how much better off my family would be if i had died, how much i would stop suffering, etc) but i guess they never took what i had that seriously because they never really suggested medicating me and i was never taken to a psychiatrist following that.

but i wonder why cases like these are handled so differently depending on the circumstances? maybe they thought since i had no history of self-harm or suicide attempts i wouldn't be in trouble?

Re: Ok, I'm just being a chatty bitch here-

[(Anonymous)]

OP here- I'm Australian too. It all seems so arbitrary doesn't it?
I'm not kidding when I say the end result of my attempt was a simple "Are you going to do this again?" Hell, I'm not even sure if the person who asked me was even from the psych unit.

Although, I have cultivated a bad memory for years now. (Combination of having severe OCD and being bullied all through high school. It's hard to obsess over something if you can't remember it, and the less I remember of high school, the happier I am.)

Re: Ok, I'm just being a chatty bitch here-

[(Anonymous)]

(SE US anon again). I had no history of self-harm or anything either. As a result of this event, I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.