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Passive Suicidality: What to Do When You—or a Loved One—Don't Want To Live But Cannot Die
Your copy of Passive Suicidality comes with two bonus
- Managing Suicidality Worksheet A compilation of guided worksheets that can help you or a loved one manage passive suicidality using techniques from the book
- Guided Roleplay Audio Recording - Helping A Passively Suicidal A simulated audio roleplay featuring a conversation between a passively suicidal person and their friend who wishes to help them, with added commentary on how to truly help a suicidal person reduce their pain
Read Chapter 1 of the book to gain access to them!
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Suicide is a tragedy. Most conversations about suicide center around completed suicides and suicide attempts, but the reality of being suicidal is that most people do not want to live, but they also cannot die.
So, they live, and suffer, in silence. This is a state countless people are in called passive suicidality, a form of purgatory where they are accepting of, and even hopeful for, their own deaths, but are unable to realize it themselves for various reasons including their loved ones, spite, and a fear of death.
In this book, Ron Yap, therapist and creator of the mental health advocacy page @mentalhealthceo, draws from his own experience as a passively suicidal person and prior research into suicidology to illuminate the reality of being suicidal. In doing so, it aims to help you, or your loved one, find a way out of this quagmire -- one where you can neither truly live, or die.
From his unique window into suicidality both as a sufferer and a therapist, Ron offers into the current flawed system surrounding suicide prevention that causes intense shameA chance to destigmatize suicidality through an understanding that suicide is a legitimate, but unhelpful, way of problem-solving that is part of the cycle keeping people stuckAn accessible model that builds upon prior suicidology concepts to enhance understanding of why people turn to suicide in the first placeTangible, strength-based steps to help you or a loved one manage suicidality effectively instead of band-aid solutionsEffective communication tips to support another person in the throes of suicidalityMost people think that suicide is scary and irrational, but in Passive Suicidality, Ron will explain why suicide is a natural response to unimaginable pain and, at the same time, how to live with this darkness and use it to guide you, or someone you love, towards a truly fulfilling and meaningful life.
- Managing Suicidality Worksheet A compilation of guided worksheets that can help you or a loved one manage passive suicidality using techniques from the book
- Guided Roleplay Audio Recording - Helping A Passively Suicidal A simulated audio roleplay featuring a conversation between a passively suicidal person and their friend who wishes to help them, with added commentary on how to truly help a suicidal person reduce their pain
Read Chapter 1 of the book to gain access to them!
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Suicide is a tragedy. Most conversations about suicide center around completed suicides and suicide attempts, but the reality of being suicidal is that most people do not want to live, but they also cannot die.
So, they live, and suffer, in silence. This is a state countless people are in called passive suicidality, a form of purgatory where they are accepting of, and even hopeful for, their own deaths, but are unable to realize it themselves for various reasons including their loved ones, spite, and a fear of death.
In this book, Ron Yap, therapist and creator of the mental health advocacy page @mentalhealthceo, draws from his own experience as a passively suicidal person and prior research into suicidology to illuminate the reality of being suicidal. In doing so, it aims to help you, or your loved one, find a way out of this quagmire -- one where you can neither truly live, or die.
From his unique window into suicidality both as a sufferer and a therapist, Ron offers into the current flawed system surrounding suicide prevention that causes intense shameA chance to destigmatize suicidality through an understanding that suicide is a legitimate, but unhelpful, way of problem-solving that is part of the cycle keeping people stuckAn accessible model that builds upon prior suicidology concepts to enhance understanding of why people turn to suicide in the first placeTangible, strength-based steps to help you or a loved one manage suicidality effectively instead of band-aid solutionsEffective communication tips to support another person in the throes of suicidalityMost people think that suicide is scary and irrational, but in Passive Suicidality, Ron will explain why suicide is a natural response to unimaginable pain and, at the same time, how to live with this darkness and use it to guide you, or someone you love, towards a truly fulfilling and meaningful life.
162 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 26, 2025
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