New Blog Post: When Suicidal Thoughts Do Not Go Away

[blackcat]

I saw the blog post and was also excited to see someone discuss chronic suicidal ideation and give the Forum a plug. I appreciate Stacy's insight into the nature of chronic suicidal thoughts and wish I'd known a few years ago that it was not wrong to have them. My therapist kept telling me I would be fine if I just took suicide off the table. You can imagine how well that worked. I have to attest that tackling the issues that led to the despair and improving aspects of my life did eventually make suicide a less tempting option.

Sorry, it's been two years since I dropped in, but it's partly because being in the forum for awhile and getting to hear from people who also have long-standing suicidal thoughts and talk openly about them was such a relief.

Don't kick me out of the Forum yet though as I got myself two books on suicide, including Stacy's, recently and happily read them for the holidays. While I appreciate my therapist who hung in there through years of ups and mostly downs, I wonder if Stacy's approach of addressing suicide directly and frequently might not have been the one way to make even me bored with the idea of suicide ;-)