It's actually a grey area. It's not technically illegal to kill yourself, but it is something where if you are a danger to yourself or others or unable to take care of yourself, you can be placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold and kept in hospital or another treatment facility for up to 72 hours. You can also be taken to court and kept longer, and/or forced to take medication or placed under guardianship if they believe after that length of time you still need to be in hospital and need treatment and won't stay voluntarily.
So there is actually legal action that can be taken to prevent you from killing yourself to try and help you and keep you safe if you are unable to do so.
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You can't always keep it separate.
This is happening, this is part of you.
It’s not illegal, in that you won’t be classed a criminal or arrested if you try to commit suicide. However, there are laws that can force treatment or psych holds on you for periods of time if you were to try and commit suicide and they deemed you to be mentally unwell.
my therpist she called me today and we talked about it and she got me to talk about stuff and she bacislly said that if i ask for something to kill myself then it would be assistive suicide so everyone would go to jail since everyone i see knows my history and even if i ask a person who dosent know my history wouldnt get me a gun and that the gun stores all do a background check so no matter what i do i will fail in my ampett...
i really hate talking to people IRL they take away the shred of hope i had in my death working!!!!! *cries*
just another floating iceberg in this ocean we call life...….
Am I a failure from birth
Is misery what I deserve
Am I just so void of love
That I'm never good, never good enough
~citizen soldier-never good enough
I'm glad your therapist said that. I've had similar things said to me and it's hard to hear. Try to remember she cares about you and wants to help you through this.
i told my online friend about the call and she said this:
I think she was being dramatic. If yok get a weapon from someone who knows you're suicidal yes they can go to jail but if they dont know then no one can do anything about it. And everyone that knew you were suicide wont be arrested unless they caused it. I really dont think your therapist knew what she was talking about.
just another floating iceberg in this ocean we call life...….
Am I a failure from birth
Is misery what I deserve
Am I just so void of love
That I'm never good, never good enough
~citizen soldier-never good enough
It is against the rules to advise people how to successfully commit suicide and I am sure you are not doing it on purpose, but you are moving in that direction.
How can we help you?
Be aware that nobody here will 1) encourage you to kill yourself or 2) help you to find legal loopholes or similar to do so.
Rather than talking about the legality of suicide maybe you need to focus on what makes you want to die and how that can be helped.
Treatment professionals aren't the same as normal people. So yes, they absolutely can get in legal trouble because they are held to different standards and ethics. So your therapist was not wrong in what she told you. Your friend is wrong. You can ask your therapist what kind of license/accreditation she has and look up their ethical and legal codes by which they are bound if you really don't believe her. But in this case, your friend is not correct and your therapist is.
We're not going to help you kill yourself either as said. We aren't a pro suicide website. It sounds like it's a conversation worth continuing with your therapist, as she's giving you really good and accurate advice in this situation.
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You can't always keep it separate.
This is happening, this is part of you.
Or, alternatively, you could change direction a bit and talk about the things that make you want to die so that people can actually try to provide some support?
Hey, I don't know how you feel but I know how much it sucks when nothing you do or nothing anyone says helps.
But hopefully this helps. The other day I saw an video of this woman who was in her 80s playing a song on her guitar with her dog. And, that brought a smile to my face just cuz just for a second I got a glimpse of what my life can be. If someone could be happy and joyous at 80, then I still have hope that I can get through it atleast feeling fine, if nothing else.
Hey, I don't know how you feel but I know how much it sucks when nothing you do or nothing anyone says helps.
But hopefully this helps. The other day I saw a video of this woman who was in her 80s playing a song on her guitar with her dog. And, that brought a smile to my face just cuz just for a second I got a glimpse of what my life can be. If someone could be happy and joyous at 80, then I still have hope that I can get through it atleast feeling fine, if nothing else.
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i have no real reason to live other then im bad at killing myself....... i have no love.. no real friends.... no real family... NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone i know ether doesnt know who i really am or hates me to no end not to mention im 100% stupid useless and worthless!!!!!! even more worthless dung at least dung can grow flowers!!!!!!!!!! i have no right to even exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE ME SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just another floating iceberg in this ocean we call life...….
Am I a failure from birth
Is misery what I deserve
Am I just so void of love
That I'm never good, never good enough
~citizen soldier-never good enough
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