When Someone You Love Is Suicidal - What to Say When They Confide in You, How to Listen and Ask Directly, Help Make a Safety Plan and Get Help, and Keep Going Without Losing Yourself #1011877

Someone you love has told you they don't want to be alive - or you've seen the signs and you're terrified to ask. Your heart is pounding, the cursor is blinking over an empty reply, and every instinct is screaming that one wrong word could make it worse. You are not a therapist. You never trained for this. And right now you are the person they trusted. When Someone You Love Is Suicidal is a calm, concrete guide for the supporter - the partner, friend, parent, adult child, or sibling who wants to help and is desperate not to make it worse. It takes you by the hand through the exact moment you're dreading and tells you what to do with your words, your presence, and your phone. This is not a book about your own grief after a loss, and it is not a general guide to living with a depressed partner day to day. It is built for the high-stakes center of it: the conversation, the crisis, and the question of how to keep someone connected to help and to life. Inside, you'll learn: You will not find false promises here. No book can guarantee you can save a life, and this one never pretends to.