I want to be honest with my psychologist about how terrible I truly feel emotionally but I’m scared she’ll hospitalize me in a mental hospital when I tell her I’m suicidal. I know I could vent without actually telling her about my suicidal thoughts but then I’d feel bad for not being honest. I’m scared. I want help but I don’t want to be hospitalized. Anyone have any advice on how to approach the subject when I do?

The only way you’ll be hospitalized is if you say something that indicates you aren’t just thinking about it but actually want to do it. Just tell them how everything you going through is making you have suicidal thoughts and feeling like you’re going to kill yourself. If they determined that you’re in trouble and feel as if you will and aren’t just thinking about it they help you cope with it and probably hospitalize you. The fact you came on here to express your distress about your suicidal thoughts and that you’re scared indicates you need empathy and comforting and not to be treated as if you’re going to kill yourself. Be strong. I feel like this all the time. I keep having thoughts about what will my former coach and gym teacher say about me if they found out if I killed my self and what they would remember me most for. It bring me to tears cuz I feel like I know what they would say and it brings me to tears every time it comes up which indicates to me that I feel like I’ve lost apart of who I am over the years and it hurts. I unfortunately can remember all the grueling pain I went through from football and keep reminding myself that that was way tougher than what I’m going through and if I can make every sprint, gasser, and hill run then I’ll get through this too.

Psychologists can’t admit you into a mental hospital. When I got told that I had to see a psychiatrist I was freaking out because if they found out that I was having suicidal thoughts that they will admit be into a mental hospital. Just be honest, explain that you have been having suicidal thoughts and how you are not going to act on them. Hope this helps.

I would vote just be completely open, there’s nothing wrong with being hospitalized if you are suicidal. Life is worth living!! Song high hopes by panic at the disco is good!

Do you have suicide/harm OCD? Or are you actually suicidal? That’s a big difference. Also, thinking about suicide versus planning it are also two different things. Very different!