What do you do when the mental health resources available would hurt you more than they would help you? That’s a question I had to sit with recently, as passive suicidal ideation became active, and for the first time in my life, I became a danger to myself.
While the moment didn’t last long, it was jarring enough that I knew I needed some form of help because at that moment I did not trust myself.
I would have text or called the suicide hotline, but I live in Florida where we have the Baker Act law; where I probably just needed to talk to someone and be talked down to, they would have put me in an involuntary hold for some time.
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