A big part of the problem is the need for clinical diagnoses, especially in America but also in my personal experience in the UK.
Two years ago I went for help but there was none for me. Instead they pointed at what therapists want to believe and said it was all down to alcohol and cannabis, and refused me treatment unless I did what I was told and went to an addiction service.
The problem is there is no specific treatment for suicide. There's antidepressant and various other options for someone who fits in with the expected look of someone who is suicidal and the presentation of symptoms acknowledged as depression. Outside this there is no help from the formal mental healthcare system.
No treatment nor guidance has been written either partially because of the need for a diagnosis and partially because there is no solution to suicidality. There are ways to reduce the completed and unsuccessful suicide rate in people with specific disorders but no help nor treatment - in my personal experience - for living day after day wanting to die.
This is why I have to face this alone. There is nothing else. There are experts perhaps and I will have to find them but each has their own answer which may not be mine.
This is the problem of sucidality and treatment. There is no one size fits all approach. Except one. Assisted suicide. I hope I get it legalised soon.
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What a thoughtful post, albeit coming from a place of suffering. I agree with your perception that treatment for suicidality is grossly lacking. But I have run across a few programs and researchers who might be of interest to you. I blog about what I find on treating suicidality upstream. You're welcome to hang out there, if you like.
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