My doctor asks " How do u want to **** yourself? " I laugh silently. She thinks I'm lying. "The internet is very helpful" I reply. Coldly, factually I narrate the correct way to cut your wrists, cut your jugular, hang yourself. Unemotionally I discuss taking my 180 benzoates with a bottle of *****, and how this is pretty unreliable.
She turns white. 'Hard to do when you're Indian', I think quietly. My inner laughter becomes a little hysterical as I'm asked if I "want" a psychiatrist.
My inner scientific self analyses the idiocy of asking a suicidal person if they "want" help.
Oh well, if I ever find the strength to do it, she'll know that I knew how