<p>I highly recommend a book by KayRedfield Jamison, a therapist who is bipolar and has been suicidal a lot during her life. It’s called “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.” She and a close friend, also a suicidal therapist, made a solemn pact that if either one of them decided to commit suicide, he/she would call the other one first. They talked about this at length and PROMISED to follow through. A couple of years later, she got a call that her friend had committed suicide.</p>
<p>My bipolar son has about a 1 in 6 chance of committing suicide. We’re doing everything we can to help him.</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (9780375701474): Kay Redfield Jamison: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Night-Falls-Fast-Understanding-Suicide/dp/0375701478/ref=pd_sim_b_2]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Night-Falls-Fast-Understanding-Suicide/dp/0375701478/ref=pd_sim_b_2)</p>