Table of Contents – Understanding and Preventing Suicide: What You and I Can Do

Preface

Expanded Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE – UNDERSTANDING SUICIDE

  1. Lost in Emotional Darkness
  2. Seeds of Suicide
  3. Tension Builds to a Tipping Point

PART TWO – ESSENTIALS OF MENTAL HEALTH: IMPROVING OUR LIVES TO PREVENT SUICIDE

  1. What Is Mental Health?
  2. Balance: Restoring Natural Functioning
  3. Balance: Body
  4. Balance: Mind
  5. Understanding Emotion
  6. Restoring Emotional Balance
  7. Expanding Awareness: Enlarging Frame
  8. Seeing Clearly: Clear Emotional Filter
  9. Seeing Clearly: Adaptable Focus
  10. Commitment to Truth
  11. Commitment to Truth – Heart
  12. Commitment to Truth – Mind
  13. Commitment to Truth – Authenticity
  14. Belonging – The Essential Need

PART THREE – WHAT WE CAN DO DAY-TO-DAY

  1. Create Conditions for Belonging and Authenticity
  2. One Simple Thing: Kindness
  3. Bringing Kindness to Difficult Times
  4. See Clearly with an Open Heart
  5. Helping Others See More Clearly with More Open Hearts
    APPENDIX
    A. Links for resources
    B. Understanding Balance: Excerpts from Slow Down and Lighten Up: Letting Go of Stress and Tension
    C. Losing Someone to Suicide