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Laurie Branch |
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Psychotherapist |
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Areas of Focus
Suicide
The stresses endured by people in a suicidal crisis are undoubtedly severe and overwhelming, but they are not typically unsolvable or permanent. They seem that way to people who are experiencing the crisis, however, because their strong emotions overwhelm, interfere with and degrade their ability to think rationally and to place their problems in perspective.
The thinking of people who are experiencing a suicidal crisis is typically clouded and negatively biased, intensely self-focused, and highly emotional. As discussed previously, homicidal feelings may intermingle with suicidal feelings if there is a sense that someone else has deliberately caused harm. Feelings of loneliness, isolation, alienation, anger and rage are common, as well as the following kinds of thoughts:
* Hopelessness
* A sense that things will never get better
* A feeling of inability or lack of motivation to change the situation
* A belief that your emotional pain is permanent or too much to bear
* A sense of personal worthlessness, self-hatred or self-loathing
* A sense that all meaning has been removed from life
* A sense that suicide is the only way to make the stressors stop (founded upon the utter sense of hopelessness described above).
Even though it is very hard to believe it in the moment of crisis, the following statements are almost always true:
* Suicidal crises are temporary conditions.
* The intensity and urgency associated with suicidal crises tends to disappear or diminish with time.
* People CAN be helped through suicidal crises if they are open to accepting appropriate help and treatment.
If you are having suicidal thoughts, please get help today!
The stresses endured by people in a suicidal crisis are undoubtedly severe and overwhelming, but they are not typically unsolvable or permanent. They seem that way to people who are experiencing the crisis, however, because their strong emotions overwhelm, interfere with and degrade their ability to think rationally and to place their problems in perspective.
The thinking of people who are experiencing a suicidal crisis is typically clouded and negatively biased, intensely self-focused, and highly emotional. As discussed previously, homicidal feelings may intermingle with suicidal feelings if there is a sense that someone else has deliberately caused harm. Feelings of loneliness, isolation, alienation, anger and rage are common, as well as the following kinds of thoughts:
* Hopelessness
* A sense that things will never get better
* A feeling of inability or lack of motivation to change the situation
* A belief that your emotional pain is permanent or too much to bear
* A sense of personal worthlessness, self-hatred or self-loathing
* A sense that all meaning has been removed from life
* A sense that suicide is the only way to make the stressors stop (founded upon the utter sense of hopelessness described above).
Even though it is very hard to believe it in the moment of crisis, the following statements are almost always true:
* Suicidal crises are temporary conditions.
* The intensity and urgency associated with suicidal crises tends to disappear or diminish with time.
* People CAN be helped through suicidal crises if they are open to accepting appropriate help and treatment.
If you are having suicidal thoughts, please get help today!