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Mental health and therapy.
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I'm not sure how it is in the UK/Ireland (I live in Switzerland), and I haven't gone the bodily self-harm way, but back when I had suicidal ideation for the second time it scared me enough to immediately go to a crisis centre, where I was diagnosed with depression. The people there helped me find a therapist. Though they told me that I could switch therapists if it didn't click, without needing to give any reasoning, and that it might take up to ten tries to find a therapist that clicks, I was lucky and clicked with the first one. But putting me in a psyche ward wasn't even mentioned (though I spent three days and two nights at the crisis centre), possibly because I never took steps to realize those suicidal thoughts.