Is suicide really a choice? Is it possible to prevent ALL deaths, even up to the last minute? Are individuals who end their lives psychologically weaker than the rest of us? Our understanding of suicide has changed dramatically over the past decade, and the firsthand experiences of those who have been there and research data suggest...everything we knew about suicide was wrong.

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Is Suicide Really A Choice?A Vivid Memory

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Is Suicide Really A Choice?

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Pupils Dilate & Eyelids Widen

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Is Suicide Really A Choice?

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Depression is a disorder of mood, so
mysteriously painful and elusive in the way
it becomes known to the self — to the
mediating intellect– as to verge close to
being beyond description. It thus remains
nearly incomprehensible to those who have
not experienced it in its extreme mode.
- William Styron

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What I Didn’t Do…

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I finally succumbed when all my
strength was fully, completely gone…

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Suicide Can Be Prevented.
A. Never in Those Truly Intent on Suicide
B. Sometimes, but Only in Advance of Acute
Risk
C. Always, but Only in Advance of Acute Risk
D. Always, Even Up to the Last Moment

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How Long Could You Endure the Ice
Water…

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Everything We Knew
About Suicide Was
Wrong
#NatCon14
David Covington, LPC, MBA
CEO & President
Crisis Access, LLC
http://crisisaccess.com