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I agree with Multipixie. I have been wanting to express this. When mental illness causes so much mental anguish that one considers suicide a viable solution, then one is "suicidal" and the more pain that accumulates, the more that solution looks inviting.
When a person is thinking about committing suicide, it is termed "suicidal ideation". The longer one remains suicidal and entertains suicidal ideation, the more likely it is that suicide will become a reality. The window for intervention occurs in that period of time. If a person has more tools in their toolbox, has coping skills, has been in therapy and has learned alternatives that may lessen the pain they are experiencing, or experiences intervention, they have a better chance of making it through the worst of their period of anguish.
So, it isn't unusual for someone to experience periods of being suicidal or to have suicidal ideation without ending up committing suicide. It does need to be monitored, however.
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 Vickie
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