Not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I am autistic w/ adhd and sometimes have trouble understanding how I feel. When is it a good idea to seek help from a hospital? I am not suicidal but I have had days where I would be in so much mental and physical pain I could barely move. I would sometimes write myself notes before bed because I thought I was going to die in my sleep and didn’t know if that would be a good thing or a bad thing. It would feel like my brain had carpet burn and was on fire at the same time, then sometimes build up to feeling like there were metal chains wrapped around it and I couldn’t “zone out” like I usually do to get away from things, just get left on the outside and start panicking feeling like I need to knock myself out somehow to make the agony stop, but wanting to avoid hurting myself mostly because I didn’t want to be found out. I don’t tell anyone because I don’t want my parents to know there is something wrong, and I also don’t want to make a big deal out of anything because of a lot of self doubt. Though in hindsight, it does concern me that whenever I get to that state I always choose that it’s better to die than tell anyone something is wrong. So I guess my question is, at what point is it a good idea to seek help from a hospital and when is it okay to just “ride it out”? I’m worried I don’t know my limits and I don’t want to find out the hard way.