1. Unless you tell a professional that you have a plan and a date to kill yourself, you’re not getting committed. If you show up to the ER with suicidal ideation that’s a different story, but no therapist or psychiatrist actively wants to send people to psych. They will talk through it with you, tell you their intentions, and call someone close to you before anything else. I’ve literally shown up to appointments w my psychiatrist and been like “I was going to kill myself this morning but I didn’t” and he talked thru it with me and trusted when I told him I didn’t need to be committed.
2. The month before I attempted I told my therapist I wanted to die in every session but I was never forcibly committed, she only strongly suggested I go to the ER.
3. Fear mongering about psych is not fucking helping anyone. Of course I hated getting sent to suicide jail for 12 days. But that was after I tried to overdose with intent of dying. I no longer had a choice in the matter. I had finally pushed past the point where my decisions were sustainable at all.
4. Tell your therapist the truth. Tell them you’ve been having suicidal thoughts. They don’t want you in the hospital any more than you want it.
the statements “Twilight is extremely problematic” and “a lot of the vitriol directed at Twilight at the height of its popularity was rooted largely in misogyny” can both be true at the same time yknow
Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way,
you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction
in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
We all are stardust 