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What they do » Aphrodite

Posted by daisym on October 10, 2004, at 20:12:08

In reply to But what are they to *do* anyway?, posted by Aphrodite on October 10, 2004, at 19:49:01

They assess the risk. They take action to keep you safe. Which may be more phone calls or sessions but it may mean getting in touch with other people in your life who need to know.

Which is why, if you are like me, you don't always want to be transparent about how you are feeing. To burden those in my life with this knowledge is about the very worse thing that could happen, imo.

The best thing my therapist did, and has done again recently, was tell me he would be devastated if anything every happened to me and asked me to promise to call him first before I hurt myself. And he promised to answer that call with compassion and concern, not anger. He said he would tell me "in a damn straight way" not to kill myself. Which seems obvious but there is power in the way he said it, which made me believe that I would be able to hear him through the pain.

 

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