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Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash Do You Wish You Could Go to Sleep and Never Wake Up? by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW January 10, 2020 2,003 “If only I could go to sleep forever.” “I want to die.” “I wish I’d never been born.” Do you ever have thoughts like these, and you do not want to kill yourself? They want their life to end, but they don’t want to end their life. If you’re one of those people, you probably don’t think of yourself as suicidal.
- ▪Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash Do You Wish You Could Go to Sleep and Never Wake Up? by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW January 10, 2020 2,003 “If only I could go to sleep forever.” “I want to die.” “I wish I’d never been born.” Do you e
- ▪They want their life to end, but they don’t want to end their life.
- ▪If you’re one of those people, you probably don’t think of yourself as suicidal.
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Photo by Kinga Cichewicz on Unsplash Do You Wish You Could Go to Sleep and Never Wake Up? by Stacey Freedenthal, PhD, LCSW January 10, 2020 2,003 “If only I could go to sleep forever.” “I want to die.” “I wish I’d never been born.” Do you ever have thoughts like these, and you do not want to kill yourself? Many people do. They want their life to end, but they don’t want to end their life. If you’re one of those people, you probably don’t think of yourself as suicidal. It might surprise you to know that, in clinical parlance, such thoughts are considered to be “passive” suicidal ideation. What is Suicidality? Photo from Fotolia Technically speaking, the term “passive suicidal thoughts” is an oxymoron. The very meaning of suicide is the intentional act of killing oneself.
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