Coping with suicidal ideation, in yourself or in a loved one, starts with understanding. Understanding of what happens in your mind, and how that manifests in your thoughts, feelings and actions. This is the core of this video series.

Based on scientific research and over a decade of both professional and personal experience, Suicidality Explained provides essential information and insights to help yourself or your loved one to hold fast, and survive suicidality. The module consists of 5 videos:

1 – The Ship Inside Your Head How do our brains work? The analogy of “The Ship Inside Your Head” makes this complex information easy to understand. With this in mind, is becomes clearer how suicidality comes about and what can be done to prevent it.

2 – Your Crew Under Stress Stress is considered bad, but ironically, it is essential to our survival. How do our brains respond to stress? And how does that response change when stress persists for too long? This reveals important clues to what triggers suicidal ideation.

3 – The True Nature of Suicidality What happens in your mind when you have a death wish? Which factors contribute, and could it happen to anyone? This video explores and explains the physical and psychological reality of what suicidality is at its core.

4 – The Shapes & Forms of Suicidality Recognising if someone is suicidal is easier said than done. What suicidality looks like, can differ greatly from person to person, and from moment to moment. This video shows the various kinds of warning signals, and why some are so subtle that they often go unnoticed.

5 – The Basics of Prevention & Intervention With the insights of the previous videos, we now discuss the most important things you can do to support your loved one or yourself in case of suicidal ideation or actions. Death by suicide cannot always be prevented, but these key tools for the basis of all effective ways to intervene, prevent and (help) recover from suicidality.

Materials included Every video includes English subtitles and a downloadable illustrated transcript in PDF-format.