In the past month...

Have you wished you were dead or wished you could go to sleep and not wake up?

Have you actually had any thoughts of killing yourself?

"Now, I’d like you to think about the time in your life when you were feeling the most suicidal. During that time..."

Have you been thinking about how you might do this?

Have you had these thoughts and had some intention of acting on them?

Have you started to work out or worked out the details of how to kill yourself? Do you intend to carry out this plan?

Intensity of ideation, 1-5, in the past month.

How many times have you had these thoughts?

When you have the thoughts how long do they last?

Could/can you stop thinking about killing yourself or wanting to die if you want to?

Are there things - anyone or anything (e.g., family, religion, pain of death) - that stopped you from wanting to die or acting on thoughts of committing suicide?

What sort of reasons did you have for thinking about wanting to die or killing yourself? Was it to end the pain or stop the way you were feeling (in other words you couldn’t go on living with this pain or how you were feeling) or was it to get attention, revenge or a reaction from others? Or both?