No you can't. Unless you want to be stupid like me and be too open and have your therapist call 9-11 EMS on the spot causing unhealable trauma and irreparable damage to your faith and trust in the mental health system.
My therapist didn't call EMS on the spot, but less than 2 weeks later, en route to her office, I experienced a progression of cognitive issues that I had also told her MH providers had been gas lighting me about for over a year. She offered to take me to the ER, and (again, I was having really bad cognitive issues) I agreed so long as it was only for medical care (I had known for months that what I was experiencing was absolutely unrelated to my depression or responses to trauma, and, lo and behold, I was 100% correct about this) and that she would protect me from anyone who tried to make it about mental health.
For reasons beyond the scope of this, but which she absolutely knew and understood, her car was one giant trigger (imagine being dropped in a bloodsoked blanket), and then en route from her office to the ER she started telling me that I needed to be prepered to be "away for 72 hrs".
I held out a sliver of hope, I kept reminding her I wasn't actively suicidal (always finishing that statement in my head with, "but if you do to me what you're threatening to do to me YOU will MAKE me actively suicidal"), I kept telling her I would never answer suicidal idiation questions in an ER because such questions are completely unrelated to any care that I would EVER seek in an ER.
Of course, she then lied to ER staff, they believed her and not me, I was denied the actual unbiased medical care that I actually sought, the actual unbiased medical care that I should have been given, and the actual unbiased medical care that would have actually helped me and given me a reason to keep living.
... on the spot causing unhealable trauma and irreparable damage to your faith and trust in the mental health system.
The moment that I crossed the threshold into the coffin room, I went from decades of ideation to actively suicidal. I will NEVER trust MH or ER medical staff again.
I am going to kill myself BECAUSE of what was done to me in that ER. The only way to guarantee that I won't be similarly unheard, distrusted, dismissed, disrespected, and imprisoned for my firmly held moral views on suicide -when seeking exclusively medical care that I genuinely should have benefited from, and which, had it been provided, would have given me reason to live- is to not exist.
In other words, the sanctimonious MH idiots drove someone who honestly asked for the actual help that they needed addressed -in order to live- into someone who's remaining goal is simply to CTB.
