This is from a converstation taken from the webcast shown on National Survivors of Suicide Day http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseac...26998B8ED467D1

It has helped me and I thought it was deserving of its own thread.....


Jack Jordan PhD

"I sometimes say to survivors that I work with, that I think of suicide as the kind of perfect storm....

.....Its the coming together of multiple factors in just the wrong way....

That include the persons biology, their thinking, their life circumstances,
things that have happened long ago as well current stressors in their life...
all just in the wrong way that allow it to happen.

Typically survivors over estimate how much of that they could have controlled or done something about."


Dr. Sidney Zisook
And often somebody will say, I am only staying alive for my loved ones, and that is very true…

But at the point where they kill themselves, their judgment is so impaired and their pain is so great…
That even that isn’t enough to keep them going."