Your reaction will be key to helping prevent suicide. Staying calm and understanding the other is key during this process.
When a person comes to tell us that they have considered suicide as an alternative in their life, we may go into shock and not know how to handle the situation. This reaction is completely normal, whether out of habit or because we simply don’t know how to handle the situation.
Experts from the recommend that in this situation You can start asking questions to find out if the person is in danger of realizing their suicidal thoughts..
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With empathy and sensitivity, ask direct questions:
- How do you cope with what is happening in your life?
- Do you ever feel like giving up?
- Do you think about death?
- Are you thinking about hurting yourself?
- Are you thinking about suicide?
- Have you thought about suicide before or tried to hurt yourself?
- Have you thought about how or when you would do it?
- Can you get weapons or something that can be used to hurt you?
Keep in mind that Doing so does not induce anyone to take any self-destructive action.Instead, you are given the opportunity to talk about your feelings, which can reduce the risk of you turning those thoughts into reality.
Listen carefully to their answers without judging them. If within what he tells you you find something alarming, do not leave him alone and immediately contact a help line such as Because I Want to Be Well ().
Mention that he is a valuable persontalk to him about the options that exist to make things better. Don’t compare him to anyone and make it clear that, although you are not an expert on the subject, You can accompany him until he finds the help of a professional. That he is not alone.
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Catalina Botero, coordinator of the team of psychologists at Porque Quiero Be Bien, provides more advice for addressing a case of suicidal ideation. Watch them in the following video:
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