On Suicide and Facing It With Radical Love

As a psychotherapist I am infrequently familiar with suicide, I experience those prior to an act, those post an attempt, and those who live on after someone has taken their own life. I am more frequently acquainted with patients for whom life has lost meaning, or that their place within life has lost value.

Consequentially, I have come to view suicide through a rational lens, although it…

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Daniel J O'Connell, LCSW

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Transatlantic LCSW. Complex cases - child protection, mental health, addiction, community & advocacy. Clinical consultant, shrink, existentialist, humanist.

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