Dr. Matt Zakreski

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If I went to sleep tonight and woke up in the morning and didn't wake up in the morning.

My life would be better.

Right.

So this is what we call passive suicidal ideation.

And then there are people who report like, I drive by a bridge and I think, wouldn't it be great to drive my car off this bridge?

The incidence of suicidal ideation is far more prevalent than we understand as

broader society, but also with even within the mental health community.

A most uh recent data from twenty eighteen says that seventy-three percent of adults report had reported suicidal ideation in the last six months.

And if you just think about those numbers, right?

I mean

There's no way that that is the rate of suicide in America.

And thank heavens for that, right?

I mean, that's you know, that would be an entirely different pandemic.

But it what it is is that these thoughts are normal, they're scary, but what happens is that we don't people don't have places to put them.

They don't have places to share them.

the mental health space becomes a has sort of become that holding ground for, hey, life is hard and it is

If you're feeling that overwhelmed, you know, let's let's make some space for those feelings.

Let's talk that out, right?

Let's and we think about kids with their with their brains that are less mature, right?

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