Suicidal ideation and suicide plans/attempts: These are important distinctions for survivors. Many may not think about the distinctions between these terms.
After all, they are both about suicide: self harm, death at one’s own hand. We may think, eh, they’re both closely related. Or, all suicide discussion is scary and dark and any thoughts of killing oneself are bad, but isn’t the first one just step one?
The second is the action, when you’ve moved on to step two? It’s all just the awfulness that is suicide. Not pleasant to talk about.
Read more on themighty.com