Chat Room
01-04-2018, 11:12 PM
Agree that the longer a person has chronic suicidal thoughts, the more it becomes 'their normal'. That has certainly been true for me.
I wonder how many MH professionals share Stacey Freedenthal's view that chronic suicidal ideation is only a problem if it intensifies to the point where a person is at imminent risk of ending their life?
In my own experience of dealing with MH professionals, they eventually gloss-over the fact of someone being chronically suicidal; like the longer a person has felt this way, the less likely they are to act on it. They become almost complacent. Dangerous territory.
I wonder how many MH professionals share Stacey Freedenthal's view that chronic suicidal ideation is only a problem if it intensifies to the point where a person is at imminent risk of ending their life?
In my own experience of dealing with MH professionals, they eventually gloss-over the fact of someone being chronically suicidal; like the longer a person has felt this way, the less likely they are to act on it. They become almost complacent. Dangerous territory.
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