If I tell my mental health team this stuff, what action will they have to take?

Question

I already have diagnosis'.

Lately I just want to do any kind of drug. I have done weed 4 times in the past 3 weeks so not a lot, I just want to go crazy and get some coke or speed and take loads to feel even higher than I already do. I also have homicidal thoughts to the point I want to carry a knife around with me, I am actually worried about the safety of others because I know I am going to end up doing something to someone and ending up in jail. I can't stop binge drinking, every weekend I go on a binge to the point I can't even keep my head up anymore and end up passing out.

My social worker worries my drinking will have me ending back up in the psych ward.

Answer 1

I can relate to a lot of what you're saying. I'm a recovering addict/alcoholic myself. I encourage you to go to rehab and be 100% transparent and honest with everyone who is trying to help you. You need to communicate your using urges and homicidal ideations to your therapist and doctors. You're not in trouble for your thoughts. The key is not to act on them! I would encourage you to be open to returning to the psych ward for detox and to relieve some of your current stress. Tell your SW what's going on...You will probably hate all of this at first...but please don't give up. When all is said and done, you will know peace like you've never known it before. I believe in you!

Answer 2

Sounds like you need God to come into your life and guide you..

its a prayer away...and what will it hurt you? Drugs and drinking are obviously not working for you....so stop...

go to the Library and get the book " The art of real happiness "by Norman Vincent Peale...don't stop until u read all of it.....it help me to learn how to think right after a terrible depression that was so bad I felt my spirit leaving my body....that book is powerful to bring me out of that.

Answer 3

You need to be HONEST with your therapist and team.. we can't help if you hold back what is in you--seeking to destroy yourself and others (this needs to be accounted for and you must be placed in observation)....It is time to retire “danger to self or others” as the criteria for hospitalization for those with serious mental illness and replace it with a more humane “need for treatment” approach. Danger to self or others has been a failure on all levels. Deinstitutionalization and non-hospitalization have left hundreds of thousands of the serious mentally ill on the streets or in jail. “Danger to self or others” has caused death and injury to thousands of the mentally ill and their families and friends, and police officers who attempt to take them into custody. Police have become the primary providers of mental health services in the United States, threading an incomprehensible system with few guidelines for “danger to self or others”. If they don’t take someone into custody something bad may happen, if they do, they may be tied up for an entire shift at the emergency room only to find that the hospital has discharged the person in less than 24 hours.



And before I leave, consider Jan's kind words.. seek God for he can heal you mind, body and soul.. set you free of these needs and grant you life eternal by accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior.. please make time and listen to these songs as they will aspire your soul to seek Its Creator...



Who can it be by Lauren Diagle, to He knows by Jeremy Camp, to I need you now by Plumb, to I am forgiven by 10th Avenue, to Remind me whom I am by Jason Gray and to Sweetly Broken by Jeremy Riddle and rest your soul as you listen to the words.. I now the message will give you comfort and understanding of God.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Wt5X91ciE6Y How can it be



https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=O5_Z3ZZYLDc Sweetly Broken



here is hoping that you will find God and His grace for you.





please tell them what is stirring inside you and you mind.....