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Originally Posted by *Laurie*
I guess my question is, How is being able to control suicidal tendencies any different than believing we can control mental illness? I believe we can work hard in therapy and in self-education to maintain a certain amount of regulation over our mental illness, but "control" is kind if a loaded word, one that seems to perpetuate stigma. I suspect the same is true for suicidal feelings.
And, like possum pointed out, having a fleeting thought about suicide is not the same as feeling suicidal or as acting on suicidal feelings.
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I don't mean to say that we can control suicidal tendencies, I went back and read my first post and realized that it does sound that way and that's terrible. My question is, are we always feeling that way because we feel a lack of control to something in our lives? Could thinking of it specifically that way help how we feel about we're dealing with?