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Thursday, January 02, 2020

Suicidal Ideation Scale


once upon a time...    prior to language
i flew the skies, shed skins, i was walk of two worlds 
label bottle bone: "sick"          i swallow it under my tongue 
lifetime shatter: the myth of you will not want to die one day...
one day, you will not want to die 
            //it might be a collection of hours but grasp//
let us ask you about harm: here a scale of reduction &
the trespass of truth is i will turn you over to policing
tick... tock... you be glued into time better, girl 
- Mental illness (suicide reflects mental illness);

- Cry for help (suicide threats are not real, they represent a cry for help);

-Right to die (people have the right to take their own lives);

-Religion (lack of religion has a role in suicide);

-Impulsivity (deliberate self-harm and suicide are impulsive acts) ;

-Normality (everyone is potentially capable of suicide);

-Aggression (suicide is an aggressive act), and Moral evil (suicide is a morally bad action)

what will it say of poetry
a failure to give.... but consider it led me further out 
than i ever anticipated. 
in the first year after my brother suicided, i thought 
this wave, this calm, my heart, this blown through i have touched
with my blood, what a feeding, what a strapped down to knowing
cart me  i surrender. 
        but they find you anyway.       oh that song, inside your cells

  couldn't hide that shine.      that kind of burning calls        
    the ferocity of what cores            no one can see 
The CCCS-18 consists of items that measure respondents’ beliefs about legitimacy of suicide (as a rationally acceptable act), acceptability of suicide in terminal patients, morality of suicide from a social perspective and suicide itself as a solution to exit from a given situation

(everyone is potentially capable of suicide (can you hold it like a love( 
(a solution to exit from a given situation    (can you hold it( 
(suicide are impulsive acts (love itself(coming here itself(every time i jumped 

This scale consists of hypothetical scenarios in which the scheme’s main character experiences a problem and attempts suicide. The scale wants respondents to determine the extent to which they have sympathy or empathy with the character and agree with his/her decision in attempting suicide.

do you agree with my decision to attempt suicide(what is acceptance 
do you agree with my decision to ideate suicide (what is surrender
do you agree to put down your fear (there is nothing to be afraid of 
          death is ending a story
& all story tellers
hold the light 

This questionnaire asks about attitude and opinions toward self-destructive behavior, including thoughts about circumstances under which someone might attempt or commit suicide. 

a poem is anatomy, to say i anatomize the self
have taxidermied the constructs you apply to situations
and i am asking you to undo all attachment.                   
       
                               that is all.    i am asking, 

     can you give up the idea of life   
 what is the act of continuation
but a type of destruction of allowing an end
to occur spontaneously

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