In the book Mindfulness and the Transformation of Despair: Working with People at Risk of Suicide, Mark Williams and his coauthors speak to fellow clinicians and researchers, acknowledging the crux of the condition: “Suicidal people are hardly ever certain that they want to die, but they certainly do not want to go on living in such pain…and our job is to help them find a way of living alongside the difficulties, making peace with despair, and giving them a chance to experience what it is like to come out on the other side of feeling so trapped.” Although Williams found evidence that mindfulness-based interventions may help those struggling with suicidal thoughts, to date, not many such programs exist.Ī recent exception is The Suicide Prevention Through Mindfulness Training program, an eight-week pilot program held in St. Suicide prevention is an urgent and complex issue in mental health services.
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