1. Reasons to Live

2. Name One Reason to Live

3. Who Am I And Why Do I care About This

4. Disclaimer

5. When I say Suicide….What Comes to Mind

6. Our own anxiety

7. And….We do not have a crystal Ball (At Least One that Works)

8. One more thing before we talk about suicide…

9. Suicide; A Few Statistics

10. Looking Deeper at the Statistics

12. Suicidal Ideation

13. Classic Spectrum of “Risk”

14. Another Look------Spectrum of Risk (Joiner, 2017)

15. It’s more complicated………….

16. Spectrum

17. Structured Assessment Tools

18. Risk Factors for Suicidal Behaviors

19. Other Signs of Suicidal Ideation

20. Protective Factors

21. Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

22. Hope Vs Inescapable, Lonely Pain

23. Hope and Hopelessness

24. Questions to Assess Hope

25. Locus of Pain

26. Questions to Assess Locus of Pain

27. Meaning Vs. Feeling a Burden

28. Self-Hate; A Feeling of Being a Burden; Helplessness

29. “I don’t care if I live or die”-Parasuicidal Risk Taking

30. Substance Abuse: A Major Risk Factor

31. Self-Harm, Eating Disorders

32. On Suicidal Threats without Intent to Die----

33. Suicidal Ideation as a Means of Communication

34. Mood Disorders

35. Psychosis

36. Questions to Assess Suicide Risk in a Person who Hears Voices

37. More on Risk Assessment in Psychosis

38. Borderline Personality Disorder

39. PTSD

40. Demographics of Suicide Completion

41. Gender

42. Suicide in Men

43. Which Age Group Has the Highest Rate of Suicide?

45. Suicide Among the Elderly

46. What was important to you when you were a Youth?

47. Suicide Among Adolescents

48. What would you do if you were invisible

49. Cyberbullying, Adolescents and Suicide

52. Having a Mental Health Condition

53. Basic Risk Factors

54. Some final thoughts on risk assessment

55. Gatekeepers

56. Why do we add to people’s pain?

57. Ways To Not Add To Pain

58. Interventions

59. Ways to Give Hope After an Attempt

60. Safety Planning

62. On Means………………..

63. Other Interventions (Once Safety is Established)

64. If all we are doing is cpr…..

65. Reasons for Living

66. Research on Reasons for Living……….

67. And it can be an ongoing conversation…….

68. Reasons for Living Inventory

69. Commitment to Life

70. More on Commitment to Life

71. Fighting Aloneness

72. A LIFE WORTH LIVING………………

73. Adding Colors to a Black and White Rainbow….

74. Self-Kindness as a defense against sense of burden/helplessness

75. Opening Self to Good Things Again

76. Radical Acceptance

77. Take Care of Your Self

78. People Survive This and Recover

79. Resources

80. Local Resources

81. References