<p>PMVD is wrong. Please use some of the hotline numbers we’ve posted and post in the Parents Forum , where you’re likely to get more informed advice.</p>
<p>You can’t be psychiatrically hospitalized unless you’re assessed to be an immediate danger to yourself or others.</p>
<p>Thank your for your helpful responses. I apologize for getting off on a tangent, though I really was intending to ask the original question, and really that was the reason for the post.</p>
<p>You’ll hopefully be seeing me post on this forum more. As I have many questions - related to college housing / life, as well as engineering program related questions, as well I have a wealth of information I could share with this forum. </p>
<p>I may post this in the parents forum; I will not respond (or read) [to] any other replies in this thread.</p>
<p>My mom is no longer in bed so she must have gone to work. You know its not that we lost our dad/ husband. He died a terrible death. The last two years have changed me for the worse, and I really hope with time I could recover from all of these memories.</p>
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and I have seen a therapist today and I told her I was suicidal but would never act, and once she made sure I was ok,
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<p>I’m glad to hear that you finally sought help.</p>
<p>By the way, how did the therapist go about making sure that you were ok? Did she ask you several times to confirm that you would never commit suicide?</p>
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<p>This is false.</p>
<p>You CAN be hospitalized if you are deemed to be a danger to yourself or others, but you WILL be free to check out in most states, Pennsylvania included, AMA, unless there is a court order to involuntarily commit you.
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<p>Let me put it in a more semantically correct way:</p>
<p>If the psychologist thinks you are suicidal, you will be sent to the hospital.</p>
<p>Whether you stay in the hospital for fifteen minutes or a day depends on several factors, mainly whether you are an imminent danger to yourself or others. Of interest to me is how they go about determining whether a patient is an imminent danger to himself or others. Again, they don’t need scientific proof of anything, it all boils down to the personal opinion of the person passing judgment.</p>
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I’m glad to hear that you finally sought help.</p>
<p>By the way, how did the therapist go about making sure that you were ok? Did she ask you several times to confirm that you would never commit suicide?
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<p>Well seeing as I’m still alive and here, I would say the therapist has good judgment. They are only required to admit to a hospital if they beleive you are in immediate danger. She talked to me about it, I mean a therapist can’t just say I beleive this person is suicidal so they are going to a hospital, they have to have very good reasons to beleive that in order to brake confidentialty, saying I’ve been suicidal is not enough to get someone admitted. Actually she told me most people who find themselves in high stress situations consider suicide. Like people who have been sexually abused have like a 3 to 4 times increased risk for suicide. Thats not genetics. Its how any normal person reacts in a really bad situation.</p>
<p>She even told me the majority of people will consider suicide throughout their lifetime. It seems like in general the more trauma people go through the more the risk with suicide.</p>
<p>I feel a little better after talking to her now. Now I don’t think I want to go for engineering, I always wanted to be a lawyer. So again I probably won’t be posting in this engineering forum again,.</p>
<p>Thanks agaiun.</p>