This coping technique calls for what therapists call “coping statements.” What Are Coping Statements for Suicidal Thoughts?Ī coping statement is whatever you can tell yourself that will help you to pass safely through the minefield of suicidal thoughts. Only, this time, you are being a friend to yourself. You can observe your suicidal thoughts mindfully, watching as they pass through your head without feeding them or giving into them.Īnother way to react to suicidal thoughts is to soothe yourself by telling yourself what you might tell a close friend or relative in the same situation. You can talk back to them, playing the role of defense attorney against the prosecutor in your head calling for the death penalty (as described by David Burns, M.D., in his book Feeling Good). I have already written about other ways to react to suicidal thoughts, as well. How Do You React to Suicidal Thoughts?ĭo you react as though your suicidal thoughts are truth? Because they tell you that you should die, do you believe that you should die?ĭo you react as though your suicidal thoughts are a symptom, and nothing else? Because you think of suicide, do you take this as a call to tend to whatever wound creates the thoughts? We can only control how we react to them. For some people, suicidal thoughts just do not stop, or they keep revisiting uninvited whenever bad moods come, no matter how much healing has occurred during good moods.įundamentally, we cannot control what thoughts come to us. Yet it might take a while to stop thinking of suicide. You might be able to eliminate suicidal thoughts by healing the depression, stress, hopelessness, self-hatred or whatever forces underlie them. Many people desperately wish to stop their suicidal thoughts.
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