An article released in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found 55% of people, mostly young people, successfully attempted or commited suicide after or while in therapy, noting therapy isn't the answer to preventing suicide.
Like any teenager, young person or any older person seriously depressed or seriously thinking of suicide couldn't have told them, their therapists and especially their parents, that?
Their findings are a statement of the obvious, therapy won't work and therapists don't get it. They don't realize with all their education, knowledge, experience and understanding they can't change people thinking of or determined to attempt or commit suicide.
My nephew fooled a number of therapists, his parents (my sister and brother-in-law) and friends before he took his life when the family went on a weekend trip and left him alone in the home, only to discover his body when they returned home.
No knew? Really? I won't argue or say anyone was wrong, they weren't. They tried and tried hard to help him. Sadly it wasn't enough. And sadly he learned to hide what he was really thinking and planning behind a wall of silence and pretend.
Pretending to be ok. And that's what everyone missed. The silence and the acting. I know this because I've been there, twice before not going through at the last minute the first time and more so the last time. As I tell people now, there won't be a third because I will succeed.
And all the therapy won't stop it. That's the reality and what therapists miss. People are smarter than therapist and will only speak about what they really and truly think and feel if they want, otherwise, therapists, parents, friends, will get either silence of okspeak, ie., "I'm ok."
And it doesn't take a study to tell anyone that, just human understanding. What don't they get about that?
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