Citation

Oquendo MA. J. Clin. Psychiatry 2015; 76(3): 293-294.

Affiliation

moquendo@psychiatrist.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Physicians Postgraduate Press)

DOI

10.4088/JCP.15f09866

PMID

25830448

Abstract

In clinical settings, one often thinks of suicidal ideation and behavior as following a somewhat linear trajectory. It stands to reason, the clinician often surmises, that patients start with suicidal ideation, progress to making a plan, and then implement the plan for suicide. Even with the understanding that people may go from one step to the next at different rates, it seems unfathomable that a patient would take such drastic action as to attempt suicide without having made some sort of plan or, at the very least, given the thought serious, deliberate consideration.

Language: en