Better Help Not Helping. Hahaha

Exactly. What crisis? If you have a chronic condition anywhere in your body but your mind, there is no crisis, even if death is the final outcome. But if we have a chronic condition in our mind, and we utter (or type) the “s” word that’s a crisis. Hmm.

Three times I have mentioned suicidal ideation to a clinician. Upon mention of the “s” word I observed two clinicians bristle and essentially suggest no further mention of the “s” word. I passed on those two with no further appointments.

Upon mention of the “s” word, the last one went into an evaluation of the imminent likely hood of offing myself and decided it wasn’t likely. We built some trust back and forth, as they fear us offing ourselves because it is painful to them and once in a while draws a lawsuit, while we might fear the matter being reported to “the authorities”. “The authorities” is the exact phrase used in the applicable law where I live.

Once trust was built on both sides, she became a keeper. Pity life gets to be so hard because people we trusted weren’t trustworthy or some other cause of mental distress.