(TRIGGER WARNING) What to tell doctor about my mental health struggle and suicidal thoughts?
Hello everyone, this is my second time posting. Thank you fellow kind strangers who provide words of encouragement on my previous post, I really appreciate it.
I've been struggling alot with my mental health after dealing with some personal problem. The first few week was a hell where I begin to have suicidal thoughts for 1-2 days. I begin to distract myself work and surround myself with people, but atp it was super draining and it's making me feel even more depressed.
I begin to have another suicidal thoughts recently and I feel like it's time I need to bring myself to get those psych referral from a doctor. But the problem is I have no idea how to let them know that I'm feeling suicidal (with no intention of planning to do it as for now). I have this anxious thought that they will report me and make me stuck in a psych ward.
Fyi, I'm a healthcare student who is about to head for our clinical attachment in few weeks. I don't want these problem to linger around and makes thing worse for me and other people. I'm going to be dealing with patient and I want to make sure I am mental capable of doing so. So it's a wise thing for me to take action, I just don't know how to inform my GP about it. Maybe those who go through the similar thing can help out?