Thoughts of ending their life

Wanting to end the suffering when the dark night became unbearable

4% clearly described · 21 people
9% possibly described · 45 people
What is this

About one in eighteen accounts include suicidal ideation during the integration process, typically in the context of the dark night, where the suffering is so intense that life feels unbearable, or where the ordinary self wants to end but doesn't know how.

Several accounts describe this not as wanting to die in the ordinary sense but as desperately wanting the suffering to stop, and not being able to see any other way. This distinguishes it from premeditated suicidality, though the distress is no less real.

How common is it
21
Clearly described
Both independent readers marked it from the same rulebook. The conservative count, and the one to quote if only one number is wanted.
45
Possibly described
At least one of the two readers marked it. The wider figure: where the readers disagreed, this is the more generous reading.
From the accounts

No direct quotes extracted for this category.

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