What is going on in the mind of a suicidal person during a suicidal crisis?
A suicidal crisis is a temporary state that occurs in response to overwhelming stress, and which is associated with seemingly unbearable and unendurable emotional and/or physical pain. This pain is perceived by the suicidal person as being so severe, permanent and all encompassing that there is no practical solution to resolving it other than suicide. Even though the stresses endured by suicidal people seem overwhelming, these problems are generally not truly unsolvable or permanently horrible. They just seem that way to the individual during the crisis. In general, suicidal people are overwhelmed, and their thinking style can be described as negatively biased, intensely self-focused, and irrational. They are not easily able to rationally evaluate their problems and put them into proper perspective. They are too close to the circumstances that have provoked their suicidal crisis and cannot see them objectively from a distance as a third party observer might. Feelings of loneliness, iso
