If I could beat 1 delusion out of the mental health profession, it’s the stupid idea that “every suicide is preventable”
That’s like saying “every murder is preventable” or “every war is preventable”. Face it, all of these types of death–suicide, murder, war–are part of what it means to be a human. So any fool claiming to reduce suicide to 0 is as silly as some teen beauty pageant where they say “my dream is world peace”. Sure, exterminate all humans and then you’ll have 0 suicide, 0 murder and 0 wars.
So if we accept that suicide is just something that hits a certain percentage of […]