Staying safe with suicidal thoughts
It can be extremely scary to have suicidal thoughts. Many clients I meet are worried about how to keep themselves safe and very focused on getting rid of the thoughts altogether. This post includes managing access to lethal means, increasing reasons to live, and figuring out the origin of suicidal thinking.
On Hospitalization
Content warning: suicide, inpatient hospitalization
Some of you who are reading have been hospitalized before with suicidal ideation, a manic episode, or other critical mental health symptoms. (I'm glad you are here. I hope you have experienced healing since that time.) Some of you who are reading have never been hospitalized and never had to think about it. And some of you who are reading are currently considering hospitalization. Regardless of your past or current experience, this is a complicated topic, and I'd like to cover it as I hope it will be helpful.