Posted by sunnydays on August 13, 2007, at 9:54:05
In reply to Re: question ***suicide trigger?, posted by peddidle on August 12, 2007, at 23:37:17
> My T also says that, because I say I don't want to act on them, they are just obsessive thoughts. There are times, though, when the thoughts are unbearably strong, that I feel like I might do something about them.
**** I don't know. They don't feel obsessive, because they just pop into my head at random moments. It's not something I dwell on, they just pop in and out.
She says that I need to recognize that they are part of the depression, or OCD, or whatever, and then learn to separate them from my real thoughts. Just because the thoughts are there, doesn't mean you have to act on them. Does that make any sense?
**** Certainly. I have absolutely no intention of acting on them.
> Have you told your T about these thoughts yet? I think it's important that you discuss them with him, even if they are just thoughts and you know that nothing will ever come of them. In case you're worried, he can't hospitalize you or anything like that unless you tell him that you are definitely going to hurt yourself.
**** Yeah, I've talked to my T before. I think it would have to be pretty bad before he would hospitalize me. I've been pretty bad before so I think he was worried about me, but I'm so so far from there now that I'm not even worried about that. Thank you.
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