Fact

• Most people who kill themselves have given definite warnings of their intentions.

• A majority are ambivalent.

• Suicidal people often give ample indication.

• Many suicides occur in a period of improvement when the person has the energy and the will to turn despairing thoughts into destructive action.

• True. But a majority are preventable.

• Suicidal thoughts may return but they are not permanent and in some people they may never return.

Fiction

• People who talk about suicide do notcommit suicide.

• Suicidal people are absolutely intent on dying.

• Suicide happens without warning.

• Improvement after a crisis means that the suicide risk is over.

• Not all suicides can be prevented.

• Once a person is suicidal he/she is always suicidal.