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Suicidal
Thoughts
When
you bought the shotgun a week ago you told yourself that
you would never use it. You wanted to have it "just
in case" things didn't get better. You placed it in
the garage, where your wife wouldn't see it.
But
you've been thinking about it every day, nearly every hour.
It is your little secret. You haven't told your doctor.
He'd take it away or lock you up. Now, if the medication
doesn't work, you still have a way out. The pain that you've
been living with for so long would finally end. All you
have to do is pull the trigger.
This
chapter covers the following topics:
- Suicidal
Thoughts
- Suicide
Is Common in Major Depression
- Suicide
Is Also Common in Other Serious Mental Illnesses
- How
to Cope with Suicidal Thoughts
This
excerpt may not be reproduced without written permission
from the publishers.
Fifty Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding
Mental Health
Yale University Press / New Haven and London
Copyright © 2005 by James Whitney Hicks
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