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When exposure to suicide creates fear of contagious death thoughts

My panic attacks started after my friend's suicide and now I am afraid that thinking about death will make me want to die too.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Witnessing chosen death can make the line between mortality awareness and suicidal ideation feel dangerously thin.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Heidegger's being-toward-death?”

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