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Anxiety 25w

How honest can I be to a therapist/psychiatrist? Because I DO have those kind of thoughts but I don’t act. I really don’t want to get sent to a mental hospital or other program though

Anonymous 25w

And I really hate lying but I really don’t want to go to a hospital I’m afraid it’ll just make my anxiety even worse

Anonymous 25w

Involuntary confinement is very VERY rare. You would have to be very close to doing something VERY bad for that to happen.

Anonymous 22w

In order to get involuntarily committed you must be an “imminent and immediate threat to yourself or someone else”. They cannot commit you for just having thoughts.

Anonymous

OP 22w

as someone who is deathly afraid of hospitals i just went to a therapist, had no intention of harming myself, and they sent me to a mental hospital against my will and it was terrifying.. so if i were you and you know for an absolute fact that you would never hurt yourself you shouldn’t tell them about those specific thoughts because they will most likely send you (at least in my case they did)

Anonymous

#3 22w

This is my fear exactly. I already got flyers for a voluntary partial hospitalization program to help with mild agoraphobia & I don’t want to do that let alone be forced into hospitalization because of just thoughts

Anonymous

OP 22w

i really hope you won’t have to go through what i did ❤️ being forced into a mental hospital by the therapist triggered agoraphobia for me but i am doing a lot better. i just bawl my eyes out anytime i think of when i was in that awful place. it was scary being surrounded by strangers and being watched all the time