10 Ways Suicide Prevention Work Will Hurt You


1 >> Comfort. If the comfort zone is where you want to stay, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

2 >> Avoidance. If you don’t want to feel expanded and laid bare to self awareness, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

3 >> Attachment. If you value your attachments to stuff like ego, a saviour complex and rescue mode, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

4 >> Defensiveness. If you really enjoy your defensiveness, bristling with feedback and want to maintain reactive responses, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

5 >> All knowing. If you have advice and answers for everybody around you, despite not being asked for it, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

6 >> Perfection. If you have such high standards of perfectionism that not even your own efforts live up to them, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

7 >> Detachment. If you feel totally numb inside because of a crappy childhood along with care-givers fatigue, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

8 >> Closed minded. If you prefer rigid beliefs about how things ‘should’ be, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

9 >> Prejudiced. If you enjoy the warmth of looking at people with hate or intolerance, suicide prevention work will challenge that!

10 >> Black and white. If you can’t tolerate ambiguity and grey space, needing the world to fit into rigid rules and procedures, suicide prevention work will challenge that!