suicide awareness (29)

We may feel angry, hurt, and a whole range of mixed emotions about suicide, maybe especially when we are grieving a personal loss of life or if we feel an underlying unease about our inability to prevent suicidality. We may even experience terror that the wellbeing of others is so out of our control. In turn, it makes sense that we would allow ourselves to think of suicidality is selfish, to help protect us from our own overwhelming feelings. At the end of the day, there are no wrong feelings, even the feelings of spite and resentment and judgment, even toward our loved ones. And yet, we do not have to act on these feelings. We can, with support, come to understand that suicidality is in fact not selfish. Suicidality is likely a biological breakdown in the brain that actually hijacks the human spirit's drive to thrive. Suicidality is often reported as leading people to believe that suicide is a last resort to an impossible situation. What do you feel or believe about suicidality?

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[image description: A heart slumps forward with furrowed brow and a frown. Text around the heart reads: "Suicide is not selfish. Often, the person feels they have no other way to lessen their pain and that they are ridding others of the burden they believe they are."]

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