Is risky behavior still labeled as suicide attempt?

butterfliesrecoverey · 29-09-2013, 10:05 PM

By "risky behavior", I mean overdosing carelessly, or on the borderline of very toxic to fatal dosage, with no initial intent to cause death.

Cacoethes · 29-09-2013, 10:09 PM

No. Suicide attempt would be attempting to take your life.

I think it would be classed as self harm. Very dangerous self harm. That could very easily go horribly wrong.

But not a suicide attempt. Convincing doctors of that with big ODs may be difficult though.

Cacoethes · 29-09-2013, 10:26 PM

Oh wait. 'Initial intent' does that mean you don't OD for the purpose of dying but then decide you want to die?

Sorry, bit confused!

butterfliesrecoverey · 29-09-2013, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Cacoethes

Oh wait. 'Initial intent' does that mean you don't OD for the purpose of dying but then decide you want to die?

Sorry, bit confused!

oh im sorry for confusing you! hahaha well, by "initial intent" I mean that it's just self-poisoning, not a serious, carefully planned out suicide attempt. After taking the pills, then vague carelessness of the consequences is present.

I just have possession of pills on whose OD's are practically not known. There's scarce information in medical literature and only a handful of case reports.
I've tried them before, and exactly what was said to occur did happen.
I mean, I do have to educate myself if I'm serious about NOT taking my life.

However, I haven't done this since I stopped cutting. If I do this, then I'm not clean anymore, aren't I? Even though it's not something I can see.

IDK why I'm even talking about this. I just believe I have no control anymore. I've decided to give into my disordered eating habits and restrict again starting tomorrow. I'm disgusted with myself and I'd figured self-poisoning would be a fair enough punishment.

Cacoethes · 29-09-2013, 11:53 PM

Ah, I understand now!

Self poisoning, as I'm sure you know, is incredibly dangerous. Not just with the risk of death, but also nasty long term health problems.

Do you have any support at the moment?

butterfliesrecoverey · 30-09-2013, 12:36 AM

I acknowledge it's dangerous, but I just feel invincible. Like, nothing bad is going to happen in the long-term.
Last time I did it , though, I was just vomiting and had an extremely swollen and firm upper right abdomen. It kept on for days until subsiding.

I don't have any immediate support. I don't want to tell anyone face-to-face, really.

Bellatrix · 30-09-2013, 10:48 AM

^That could be liver damage. You need to see a doctor. <3

Sunshine · 30-09-2013, 05:12 PM

I used to overdose as a way of self harm. There were times when it was a serious attempt at my life but some of the time it was because I just wanted to "get out of my head" and the fact I could die was just a plus. They called it parasuicidal behaviour.

I don't do it anymore although I get urges to but now the fact I could die, as I almost did on several occasions scares me as I feel I have more to live for now and outweighs the want to self harm