On Suicidality - by Sorbie - Psychiatry at the Margins

Guest post by Sorbie Richner

Sorbie Richner is a renegade independent scholar from the Midwest who writes on her substack, Miss Apprehension. This essay contains descriptions of self-harm, suicide attempts, and suicides. It also contains spoilers for the film “Harold and Maude” (1971) and the show “The Haunting of Hill House” (2018). Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, The Ghost of Seigen haunting Sakurahime, 1889 Suicidality has been a main character in my life since I was a little kid. I started covertly making it other people’s problem starting when I was about 9 years old by externalizing it as rage and violence at home and…

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