How To Help A Suicidal Person Kayleigh Wood Period 2

Slide #2: summary My section was about how to help a suicidal person. This section was about what to do if you come by or know a suicidal person. Also, what not to do if you know or come by a suicidal person. This section says that you must speak calmly and take everything very seriously about the suicidal person and to not argue, analyze, or judge them. Lastly, if you do all this then you might just save a suicidal person’s life.

Slide #3: Main Idea Trust your feelings if you think a person may be suicidal and take seriously a suicidal person’s threats. Trust your feelings if you think a person may be suicidal and take seriously a suicidal person’s threats.

Slide #4: Details, Examples, and Related to Class Specifics- take seriously a suicidal person’s threats Tell the suicidal person how much you care and are concerned with what they are doing Do not judge them. Do not analyze a suicidal person’s motives Listen carefully to the suicidal person Example- Cindy’s friend Lexy is thinking of suicide, Cindy talks calmly and doesn’t judge Lexy. Now Lexy is not going to commit suicide and forgets about her attempts.

Slide #4(continued): Related to Class This is important for the class to know because they need to know how to act and what to do when they know or find a suicidal person. This is important for the class to know because they need to know how to act and what to do when they know or find a suicidal person.

Slide #5: Longer Example Lexy’s life hasn’t been going very well. She has recently started to cut herself and is thinking about suicide. Lexy goes to tell Cindy her choice and Cindy doesn’t respond the way she expected her to. Cindy was calm and didn’t judge Lexy about her choice, instead she told Lexy that she understood why and what she was doing and she was fine with it but first she told Lexy that if she went through with it to think about how many people would miss her. So Lexy thought about it and finally decided to not commit suicide after all.

Slide #6:How I Fell About This Topic, Key Points. I fell that this is a very important topic because suicide rates have been going up over the past couple of years due to the way people treat suicidal attempters. So if everyone knows how to treat suicidal people the world would have less suicides. Some key points are: Never leave a suicidal person alone Some key points are: Never leave a suicidal person alone Never dare a suicidal person Never dare a suicidal person Take seriously a suicidal person’s threats Take seriously a suicidal person’s threats Do not argue with a suicidal person Do not argue with a suicidal person Lastly, do not judge the reasoning for a suicidal person Lastly, do not judge the reasoning for a suicidal person

Slide #7: Summary of Power Point In this power point I told you that my section was about how to help a suicidal person. I told you that you must take a suicidal person’s threats seriously. Also, to not judge a suicidal person and to listen carefully to a suicidal person. I also told you an example of a situation in which a girl was telling her friend, who wanted to commit suicide, to not commit suicide. Lastly, I told you that this section to the class because you need to know how to act around a suicidal person.