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How thoroughly do you mask your ideation?

  • I'm a solid stone wall. I doubt people have any clue.

    Votes: 2 12.5%
  • I sometimes let slip hints- mostly by mistake.

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • I sometimes let slip hints- consciously.

    Votes: 4 25.0%
  • I'm dropping lots of hints- by mistake.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I'm dropping lots of hints- consciously.

    Votes: 3 18.8%
  • Many/ all now realise, although it wasn't my intention.

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • I wanted people to know so, I told them.

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Other.

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Total voters
    16
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Forever Sleep

Earned it we have...
May 4, 2022
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I've just read a thread discussing the inference of CTB:


And, it's inspired me to make a poll.

I suppose it is more targetted at people who have been trying to mask their ideation. Do you still think you've dropped hints that allude to you being suicidal or, wishing you were dead? Did you let those hints out more consciously or, by mistake? Did anyone pick up on them?

I've only told a handful of friends outright that I developed ideation in childhood and have had those feelings ever since. Mostly when I either sensed they felt the same or, that they were pro- choice enough not to go ballistic.

I haven't said it outright to family but, I feel like I've said more than enough around them for them to join the dots. I just think they don't want to. Even under high stress situations at work in the past, I've said more than I should. Again, they just went quiet, more than pushing for clarification. Which was a mercy- really. Maybe they wanted rid of me. Lol.

I'm curious really. How stone walled are you about ideation? How conscious are you to keep it all hidden? Do hints slip out from time to time? Do you have control over it?

It's usually when I'm feeling really stressed, that I'll let something slip. Often when another expectation or disappointment in me is dumped on me. I suppose because it provokes my rebellious side to say: 'No- this isn't reasonable because- I don't even want to be alive!' I am still conscious though- that it's probably stupid to hint at it. Just that, in that moment, I am too frustrated to care.

What are your experiences?
 
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