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“Just talking about how you got to where you
are, releases an awful lot of the pressure, and
it might be just the additional coping resource
you need to regain your balance."
Just talking about how you got to where you
are, releases an awful lot of the pressure, and it
might be just the additional coping resource
you need to regain your balance.
5 Suicidal feelings are, in and of themselves,
traumatic. After they subside, you need to
continue caring for yourself. Therapy is a really
good idea. So are the various self-help groups
available both in your community and on the
Internet.
Well, it's been a few minutes and you're still
with me. I'm really glad.
Since you have made it this far, you deserve a
reward. I think you should reward yourself by
giving yourself a gift.
The gift you will give yourself is a coping
resource. Remember, back up near the top of
the page, I said that the idea is to make sure
you have more coping resources than you have
pain. So let's give you another coping resource,
or two, or ten...! until they outnumber your
sources of pain.
Now, while this page may have given you some
small relief, the best coping resource we can
give you is another human being to talk with. If
you find someone who wants to listen, and tell
them how you are feeling and how you got to
this point, you will have increased your
coping got to this point, you will have increased
your coping resources by one. Hopefully the
first person you choose won't be the last. There
are a lot of people out there who really want to
hear from you. It's time to start looking around
for one of them.
Reprinted with
permission.
Suicide: Read This First
(https://www.metanoia.
org/suicide) was written
by Martha Ainsworth
based on work by David
Conroy, Ph.D. T
Making The Invisible Visible