Please, if you have suicidal thoughts or considerations, please pick up a phone immediately and dial the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. Grab a lifeline. Talk to a counselor now.
Our inability to prevent the suicide of a family member left the hearts and minds of our family ragged with regret. Conventional protocols failed to prevent a drastic end to a precious life.
As I worked through the process of reconciling myself to this calamity and integrating the after-effects into my being, I grew to view suicide not as a choice, but as a bizarrely bad accident, at least in the case of our loved one. Our lost-at-sea person got swept up and drowned in a tsunami of emotions.
In my mind, conventional mental health measures had no hope against such a bizarre accident. Because we so often brag about fighting fire with fire, I wondered if we could fight accidents with accidents, outlandishness with outlandishness.
In attempting to imagine where to start with an idea like that, I ended up writing an outlandish book about suicide prevention.
Someone has to serve as the bad example.
Suicidal inclinations often defy measurement or observation. We need fewer measurements and more kind measures. Please share your thoughts on this subject using the form below. I want to know what you think. Thanks in advance.