The Therapist Diaries

Hello and welcome back to The Therapist Diaries,  Trigger warning: this post discusses suicidal crisis and recovery. If you're feeling unsafe right now, please contact emergency services or your local crisis line. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 ; in other countries, contact your local emergency number or suicide prevention services. In this post we're going to take a bit of a different journey. In the previous Suicide Prevention Month posts we've talked about signs and symptoms and prevention tactics like safety plans and talking to loves ones, not it's time to skip ahead a little bit and talk about how we can help ourselves and others AFTER a crisis.  I’ve sat across from people in my office in the days after a suicidal crisis, and the air always feels different in those moments. The storm has passed, but the quiet that follows is often heavier than the chaos itself. My clients are alive, and that matters more than anything. But they’re also raw, shaky, sometime...