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Correct in that a person that has their entire psyche made up to kill themselves is just going to do it, not talk about it. And that’s a good number of completions, but not nearly all
We have two possible things working for us, one is our motivations to not, such as the consideration of how killing ourselves will affect those that care about us. The fallacy here is to believe that just because a person had this motivation, that it can’t also be gone eventually. A seriously depressed person (even extremely intelligent) can come to believe that everyone would be better off without them. Depression warps our reasoning
The last thing we have going for us is a basic survival instinct that is ingrained in us as animals. This can work for us all the way up to the final moment, such as causing us to jerk the gun upwards at the last second (which like everything else I have seen before, talked to a lady who blew the top of her skull off ONLY because of this instinct and had to wear a wig). Many people who attempt and survive, such as people who have fallen off the Golden Gate Bridge and broke a lot of shit but not died, said immediately as they were attempting they regretted it
Because of these two powerful factors, a lot of people put out feelers prior to doing the deed. Those feelers are the psyche’s tiny attempts to keep living. These are the people we can save
The part that is not correct is thinking that someone who talks about it for x years is not going to do it. The length of suicidal ideation can indeed be an offset to risk, because it suggests that there are some greater motivations to not act. But a person can have life circumstances take a nosedive off a cliff, and their mental functioning take a nosedive with it, and decompensate very quickly to the point of a lethal attempt regardless of how long they used to have just the thoughts. It’s all case by case basis
Other than that tiny discrepancy, good points IMO. Sorry ya didn’t get a lot out of formal treatment but I always like seeing someone help themselves
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