Once a person is suicidal, he is suicidal forever. Improvement following a suicidal crisis means that the suicidal risk is over. Suicide strikes much more often among the rich-or conversely, it occurs almost exclusively among the poor. Suicide does not run in families. It is an individual pattern.
All suicidal individuals are mentally ill, and suicide always is the act of a psychotic person.
Studies of hundreds of genuine suicide notes indicate that although the suicidal person is extremely unhappy, he is not necessarily mentally ill.