Sexual assault exists across a spectrum, with nuance and variation that we necessarily must identify if we are to effectively attend to addressing it — we must come to know the pervasive nature of how power and personhood are stolen through force, and acknowledge our structural hesitancy in challenging rape culture.

As a psychotherapist I am infrequently familiar with suicide, I experience those prior to an act, those post an attempt, and those who live on after someone has taken their own life. I am more frequently acquainted with patients for whom life has lost meaning, or that their place within life has lost value.

Consequentially, I have come to view suicide through a rational lens, although it continues to appear as the most irrational of acts.