<p>I’m concerned about which of the following is more counterproductive/dangerous/insert-negative-concept-here. First, there’s the emotion and pattern displayed when one is engulfed in self-pity. I know that self-pity gets a lot of flak on CC, but I just want to analyze the situation. Engulfed in self-pity, the person may pick up a knife, march off to bed, settle down and then get a cold-sweat followed by a session of sorrow.</p>
<p>Of course, a critically different variant to the above involves the same actions, but an emotion of fear and repulsion to the act at hand. Both of these at the very least seem to elicit great concern, but the one that interests me most lies below.</p>
<p>Suppose you’re feeling suicidal and you’re also quite mellow. You regulate your mood and although your conviction about the suicide is on the fence, you are “very well aware” (or so you think/feel) that if you were handed a rope, your volition would terminate you without any hesitation or any morose mood. I acknowledge that we cannot treat these case persons as statistics, but is this last character past a point of no return?</p>
<p>And what of the person who randomly contemplates egregious or ultimate self-harm, say at an airport, in a kitchen, at a desk and in a taxi?</p>
<p>To those in psychology (and anyone with a responsible opinion), is there any blanket significance in which the act of staring at potential weapons (and indeed, cuddling them) is steeped? Does that change if the latter is concurrent with suicidal mental meanderings?</p>
<p>Edit: I have been contemplating the contemplating of suicide for several months. Hmmm… and I don’t talk about it in person (I usually talk about taboos).</p>