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Once you're admitted, you pretty much lose all your rights.

Would self-harm count as being violent to myself, or does it have to be with the intent of dying? I'm in the US, but I think the rules are the same, or at least similar, for when they have to admit you. Outpatient treatment sounds a lot better. I'm just not sure I can keep trusting myself in a position where I have easy access to things I can use to cut myself. It's always been only a matter of time until I give in to these urges.

I really don't want to be admitted for this, but I also don't want to do serious harm to myself unless I'm sure I want to die right that instant.

Violence is more like stabbing yourself or raking your arms across a wire fence.
Methodically cutting yourself isn't seen as all that violent, oddly.

My outpatient visits were for cutting myself with scalpels.
i stabbed myself four times in the forearm too but didn't tell anyone because I probably would have been admitted for that.

So I should be able to discuss it with my psychiatrist without fear of being hospitalized whether I want to be or not? That's reassuring. I was debating whether I should tell him the extent of it if I wasn't sure I was ready to accept that possibility.

^ well, idk, systems could be different, but that's what I found.
Also, the questions when you go in kind of indicate what they consider serious.
They have a set of questions.
One of them was "are you hearing things that aren't there?" and I answered yes for that one because of Aspie literalness.
They still didn't admit me.

Sorry for the hijack, you all can have your thread back now

I don't think it's possible to hijack this thread.
Anyways I had self ham issues and got CBT for it.
I've also been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia because I hear voices. They don't really say anything. Just like one or more people talking in the distance. I haven't been put in the psyche ward for any of it so far.

Thanksgiving aboard the Enterprise:

Staying out of the psych ward is to be desired, at least where I am.
Ours is horrible.
The nurse told me not to ask to be admitted.

Yeah, I've seen only bad things about any of the places by me that treat adults with my issues. I just don't want to end up doing something I'll deeply regret later (or not be around to regret). That's why I'm conflicted about it.

So the nurse gave me a Valium and then I forgot my own name, which was handy when I went to the MHU.

I'm rambling now.

Sometimes I get all chatty.
I have a low, then a high.
The high is like I'm on speed.
The low is like just kill me now.

That happens to me sometimes too.

It's the tumbleweed zone of WP.