Posted by mair on January 15, 2004, at 22:17:51
In reply to re being asked if suicidal, posted by Fi on January 10, 2004, at 12:23:16
Fi - what I used to hate being asked was if I was at "risk." I always thought that was not for me to say (how the hell would I know?) but for the doc to determine based on more tangible info. I had one pdoc who would ask this if i raised the issue of my suicidal feelings but that's as far as it got. I'd say no; he might extract some worthless promise from me to call him if things got worse, but that would be the end of the discussion. I wasn't a great one for volunteering information. It almost seemed to me that he didn't want me to talk about suicide. I even thought maybe he was concerned that talking about it would make it more of an issue.
It took some doing, but I'm on much better footing with my current therapist. She did let me talk about it enough for us both to determine that even if I wasn't "at risk" it was sometimes healthy for me to air it out. So now she rarely raises it unless I do first - and I'm more willing to raise it myself because I'm not threatened by how i think she'll respond.
Mair
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