“has little energy to make use of her mental faculties and makes consistently irrational decisions.”
Irrational is really the wrong word for decisions that are poorly made because one lacks the energy to make them. And even worse for decisions that look poorly made because all the options which would be rational for someone with normal energy are impossible or vastly more costly (to the point where they are no longer rational) for someone without.
I assume these are the types of decisions you’re talking about.
Maybe “listen, be supportive, don’t argue” isn’t literally an incitement to not take someone seriously but lots of people read that as “handle with care: fragile.”
“This is where a lot of people fail in dealing with suicidal people; they see a “protocol wall” as you put it, usually panic, and try and run through a script of things they’re “supposed” to say, and so the suicidal person doesn’t feel like they’ve managed to effectively communicate, they’ve just been talked at.”
The script of stuff they’re “supposed” to say and do is what I mean by protocol wall.
“has little energy to make use of her mental faculties and makes consistently irrational decisions.”
Irrational is really the wrong word for decisions that are poorly made because one lacks the energy to make them. And even worse for decisions that look poorly made because all the options which would be rational for someone with normal energy are impossible or vastly more costly (to the point where they are no longer rational) for someone without.
I assume these are the types of decisions you’re talking about.
Maybe “listen, be supportive, don’t argue” isn’t literally an incitement to not take someone seriously but lots of people read that as “handle with care: fragile.”
“This is where a lot of people fail in dealing with suicidal people; they see a “protocol wall” as you put it, usually panic, and try and run through a script of things they’re “supposed” to say, and so the suicidal person doesn’t feel like they’ve managed to effectively communicate, they’ve just been talked at.”
The script of stuff they’re “supposed” to say and do is what I mean by protocol wall.