Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?
Asking a friend or a loved one if they are suicidal is never an easy conversation to have. You want to tread lightly and avoid pushing someone who is clearly having problems into further despair. Research actually shows that asking someone if they are suicidal will not make them any more likely to attempt to end their life, but what’s the proper way to approach this incredibly difficult subject?
Crisis Text Line, a non-profit organization that provides free crisis intervention via text messaging, analyzed the 75 million text messages they’ve received since 2013 and used artificial intelligence to find the best way to ask if someone is suicidal.
The data showed that asking someone if they might be suicidal with “an expression of care” was most likely to lower suicidal feelings within someone texting the Crisis Text Line. If counselors use more compassionate language, the people in crisis are twice as likely to feel less suicidal than if…
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