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From the Ted Talk by Sue Klebold: My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story
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What she said and what I've learned from others is that we do not make the so-called decision or choice to die by suicide in the same way that we cohose what car to drive or where to go on a Saturday night. When someone is in an extremely sduciial state, they are in a stage four medical health emergency. Their thinking is impaired and they've lost access to tools of self-governance. Even though they can make a plan and act with loigc, their sense of truth is distorted by a filter of pain through which they interpret their reality. Some people can be very good at hiding this state, and they often have good reasons for doing that. Many of us have suicidal thoughts at some point, but persistent, ongoing thoughts of siudice and devising a means to die are symptoms of phooaglty, and like many inlsslees, the ctiidonon has to be rcezegniod and treated before a life is lost.
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What she said and what I've learned from others is that we do not make the so-called decision or choice to die by suicide in the same way that we ______ what car to drive or where to go on a Saturday night. When someone is in an extremely ________ state, they are in a stage four medical health emergency. Their thinking is impaired and they've lost access to tools of self-governance. Even though they can make a plan and act with _____, their sense of truth is distorted by a filter of pain through which they interpret their reality. Some people can be very good at hiding this state, and they often have good reasons for doing that. Many of us have suicidal thoughts at some point, but persistent, ongoing thoughts of _______ and devising a means to die are symptoms of _________, and like many _________, the _________ has to be __________ and treated before a life is lost.
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- suicide
- recognized
- logic
- choose
- illnesses
- condition
- pathology
- suicidal
Original Text
What she said and what I've learned from others is that we do not make the so-called decision or choice to die by suicide in the same way that we choose what car to drive or where to go on a Saturday night. When someone is in an extremely suicidal state, they are in a stage four medical health emergency. Their thinking is impaired and they've lost access to tools of self-governance. Even though they can make a plan and act with logic, their sense of truth is distorted by a filter of pain through which they interpret their reality. Some people can be very good at hiding this state, and they often have good reasons for doing that. Many of us have suicidal thoughts at some point, but persistent, ongoing thoughts of suicide and devising a means to die are symptoms of pathology, and like many illnesses, the condition has to be recognized and treated before a life is lost.
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