The meaning of being suicidal - a reflective lifeworld research.

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Original abstract

<h4>Purpose</h4>What drives a person towards death and what it entails to try to kill oneself is not fully understood. This study aimed to examine suicidality as a phenomenon, and to elucidate the essential meaning of being suicidal.<h4>Methods</h4>Applying Reflective Lifeworld Research, the phenomenon of being suicidal was explored through interviews with seven adult suicide attempt survivors (4 men, 3 women; aged 18-54) with various diagnoses. Interviews were analysed using meaning-oriented analysis.<h4>Results</h4>The four essential structures <i>Fragile vitality versus inherent lethality</i>, <i>suicidal isolation</i>, <i>incentive of death</i> and <i>surrendering to death</i> constitutes the essence of being suicidal. Being suicidal is a movement from everyday struggle for meaning and value in a perceived meaningless existence, into a fixed suicidal isolation marked by unbearable psychological pain, conviction of worthlessness and exclusion, paralyzing forces and cognitive-existential shutdown. The transition from thought to action is shaped in silent solitude by the incentive of death rather than will or choice. The inner drive towards death appears as a compelling, liberating, inevitable force impossible to resist on one's own.<h4>Conclusion</h4>This study provides deep understanding about the suicidal mind which may be used in development of assessment instruments and interventions for suicide prevention.

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