Resilience (noun): the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties, in a repeatable and sustainable way.; toughness As Christmas approached in 2020, my Mum’s health had rapidly deteriorated. Between hospital visits, she would stay at our house on the couch downstairs, because she didn’t have the strength to walk up to the spare bedroom. In hindsight, it was an incredibly fatiguing time, but it was also a special time when I was able to have some cathartic conversations with my Mum.
Great read Matt. When researching for an assignment last semester on self harm and suicide I read about irrational decision making which referred to the time people take to consider their decision before a suicide attempt. The maximum was one hour, for some it was 5 minutes. Indicating a huge emotion component to the decision making. When you think about the time we take to make other big decisions, such as buying property, accepting a job offer, quitting a job, getting married, having children etc, 5 to 60 mins is so very short.
Therefore resilience and emotional agility is very important in suicide prevention.
Great read. I think it highlights the fact that different people have different periods and different ways to process and deal with things, and we have to work through things as they come, rather than have expectations around them.
Great read Matt. When researching for an assignment last semester on self harm and suicide I read about irrational decision making which referred to the time people take to consider their decision before a suicide attempt. The maximum was one hour, for some it was 5 minutes. Indicating a huge emotion component to the decision making. When you think about the time we take to make other big decisions, such as buying property, accepting a job offer, quitting a job, getting married, having children etc, 5 to 60 mins is so very short.
Therefore resilience and emotional agility is very important in suicide prevention.
Great read. I think it highlights the fact that different people have different periods and different ways to process and deal with things, and we have to work through things as they come, rather than have expectations around them.
Great read.
Resilience is not how quickly we bounce back.
It’s about how we get back up on our feet, and who we turn to when we’re on the floor.