Posts on healing methods of engaging with suicidal thoughts and feelings: such thoughts and feelings are normal and need to be engaged safely if we hope to work with them. Locking people up and drugging them for feeling despair isn't the way to go. GO HERE for ideas to consider when facing the dark emotions. Let... Continue Reading →
When suicide ceases to be taboo there will be less suicide. This is why it's critical that we create safe spaces to discuss suicide. Reaching out when suicidal isn't only hard because it's treated like a crime by the system (people get locked up for being honest about those feelings). Truth is few people anywhere actually want or are able to be with folks when they're in hellish realities. Seriously. I'm not always able to do that for others either and it's very familiar territory for me. So let's be honest about this.
so REALLY?? they tell us to be sure to ask for help. What do we do when there is no safe "help" available? Until we are, as a society, willing to answer that question people will continue to die without being offered a chance to share and thus process their pain. Calling 988 the current number for suicide hotline is also unsafe. Suicidal thoughts are treated like a crime. They will report you and send out cops to your home. Rob Wipond is writing a lot about this these days (2025). A system that criminalizes pain rather than supporting that person with love is sick.
By Leah Harris Is it melancholy to think that a world that Robin Williams can’t live in must be broken? To tie this sad event to the overarching misery of our times? – Russell Brand, comedian/actor
"Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment." … [click on title for the rest of the post]
by Leah Harris ~~ Six Ways You Can Help Prevent Suicide I tried to kill myself when I was 14. It wasn’t the first time. My psychiatrist had just upped my Prozac, a whole lot of unresolved early childhood trauma had flared up at puberty, and the baseline sadness and confusion I felt mushroomed into an overwhelming desire to die.
It's time for a new understanding of suicidal feelings. Is it really best to force someone into the hospital when they are suicidal? Do suicidal feelings plus "risk factors" really mean professionals can predict whether someone might try to kill themselves? And are suicidal feelings the symptom of a treatable illness that should include medication prescription? … [click on title for the rest of the post]
I have seen far too many people in the care of social services and standard mental health care grossly retraumatized rather than helped when feeling their most vulnerable because people do not understand this loving, accepting and healing approach. It’s based in deep trust for the process of the individual who presents themselves in front of you. Listen. Love. … [click on title to read the rest]
