I live in the UK and hospitalisation is the last resort - not enough spaces in hospitals anyway! I was in hospital (General ward as I had to have the antidote for a paracetamol overdose) for 3 days in 2021. Just before discharge, a psychiatric nurse showed up to ensure that they could discharge me as being safe to be discharged and she asked me to voluntarily admit myself in their psychiatric ward. I refused and told them that I was hasty with taking the overdose and had no plans to do it again and was allowed to walk. Since then I have talked about SI, but thankfully managed to stay away from being admitted. However the 3 day hospitalisation was such a mess up with the hospital and how I was treated by some of the nurses (1 in particular) that even if I took steps to end my life and then changed my mind after taking an overdose or something, I will just finish the job and will never return to the hospital, GP surgery or the NHS. I would rather be dead than survive to face the humiliation and indignities dishes out by some of the NHS staff.
Just feel that once we feel suicidal, some medics can be quite insensitive, confrontational, aggressive, unprofessional and not worth having to go through that to live. Better tontry one's best not to be entirely truthful about any plans.
Just feel that once we feel suicidal, some medics can be quite insensitive, confrontational, aggressive, unprofessional and not worth having to go through that to live. Better tontry one's best not to be entirely truthful about any plans.