Hey deserving listeners, about a year ago I did a deep dive on suicide at the request of many patrons.

And ever since then I've always thought that I didn't really like that episode because I was a little disorganized and a little long-winded.

So I've been mildly obsessing about it and over the past couple months I have been revisiting my notes

condensing them to about a quarter of the length they were before, reorganizing

things to make it easier to understand, shifting things around.

So I want a second chance doing a deep dive on suicide.

This time more organized, I think better statistics, blah blah, blah,

getting to the point faster, that kind of thing.

In this episode, I'm going to be briefly going over some statistics, not too much.

I'm going to talk about the history of suicide and culture.

But mainly what I'm going to focus on is my model of why people think about suicide and

also my system of assessing and determining risk level and my treatment of suicide.

That's the main thing.

The main reason why I'm doing this is because pretty much, I don't know, on a monthly basis or more often.

I find myself with my supervisee, students, and trainees going over this material in a very detailed way because

suicide assessment for clinicians is a very complicated thing. By the way this

whole episode could also be applied to homicidal intent assessments as well.

Suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, the approach and the assessment and the treatment are basically the same.

So, you know, consider it sort of a double dip in that way.

But I find myself going over this with my students all the time and there's just so many details.

And so part of the reason why I wanted to do this actually was so I wanted to go over my notes and

compile a document for myself that I could reference when I'm actually teaching this system to students and

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