When Suicide Summons

a post by Linda Sapadin for the World of Psychology blog

This is not a pleasant article to write. But then how could it be pleasant when I am writing about suicide. Yet, it’s important for all of us to attempt to understand the suicidal mind.

My interest in this topic began when I was in my mid-twenties, with the attempted suicide of my mother. My mother’s act of aggression did not come out of the blue. She was depressed; she was drinking; she demanded that life bend to her demands. When it seemed that life was going to do as it damn well pleased, she, in a fit of anger and despair, decided to take matters into her own hands. While she lived for many more years after her attempt, she never really got beyond her depression and all its many manifestations.

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