throwaway34985

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   by throwaway34985 8y ago

   I am currently hopeful given a new treatment that's care-focused. I'd also add that discontinuing antidepressants (with the associated emotional blunting, at least in my case) means I am more empathetic to the impact on my wife an
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   by throwaway34985 8y ago

   My experience was I had a full plan, but deliberately avoided disclosing the legal triggers, expecting the law would apply on two levels: (a) the psychologist did not meet the threshold to breach privacy and (b) even if scheduled the legal
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   by throwaway34985 8y ago

   Anecdotally in my experience there are three categories of people who wish to suicide: 1. People with a terminal illness. Enough said. 2. People acting on impulse and/or not getting proper help. Sure they need some crisis intervention
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   by throwaway34985 8y ago

   Even telling psychologists partial plans will cause them to freak out. Here in Australia they do have professional association guidelines (which boil down to there must a realistic, specific plan with timing to warrant breaching privacy), a
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   by throwaway34985 8y ago

   The NSW Mental Health Act is an appalling instrument. I've been highly suicidal and scheduled via so-called "crisis intervention teams" (invoked by my wife) and all it achieves is reinforcing to a suicidal person just how utt