When I was toying with the idea of killing myself, I read up not only on technique, failed attempts, successful attempts, etc, but also read essays by survivors (and it sounds kind of stupid to call the relatives of suicides "survivors"; shouldn't that be the failed suicides?) ....anyway, stuff written by people who had someone close to them commit suicide, particularly parents who'd lost a child. And what really surprised me was how often it had come out of left field. There were people who were raped and never told anyone close to them and killed themselves over it years later. There were people with mental illnesses (like BPD) who kept it hidden until they killed themselves one day in a fit of clinical depression. And I found out that people like me, people who bitch and moan and tell everyone how much they wanna die and talk about ways they'd do it, they're the least likely to go through with it successfully. It's the ones you don't suspect, the ones that hold it in until they can't, who never turn to anyone for help, that's who
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That study does make sense. I never thought of it in that way. It's good to know. I just find it ironic though. When I was doing some of my clinical rotation in the psych unit, we have to ask if they feel suicidal or have had suicidal thoughts. Ask those questions enough times and you forget how impulsive such an act can really be.
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P.S. I'm glad you aren't. =D
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