It's always "stop harming yourself or we'll have to lock you up!!!" and never "what do you need to change to want to harm yourself less and how can we help you make some of these changes?" and that's why we're not getting anywhere
i'm too afraid to talk about suicide to any person in authority irl precisely because of this. it's literally "you wanna kill yourself? get sent to this death-proof place indefinitely until you say you got better!" and it's fucking horrible




















