Table 6 Most representative responses from each of the significant topics.
From: Phrase-level pairwise topic modeling to uncover helpful peer responses to online suicidal crises
Representative excerpt | |
|---|---|
1 | “I would recommend that they seek professional help” |
3 | “I would tell them to contact a professional to help them or, if necessary, I would contact someone on their behalf”. |
5 | “I would encourage them to seek professional help...therapy” |
6 | “It would depend entirely on the situation If the thoughts of suicide were related to a terminal illness, for example, it doesn’t seem appropriate to interfere In other plausible scenarios, I couldn’t conceive of another situation where I would be approached by another person for this sort of serious advice, and if I were I would demure and avoid interacting to the extent possible by the situation” |
8 | “I think I would try to help them see how worthy they are of life People make small differences in other people’s lives, sometimes they don’t even realize that they’ve made an impact Helping someone see that someone else’s life is better just because of some encounter that they have shared with that person” |
9 | “I’d tell them they have to call me every hour or that I will call 911 immediately, and that I love them, and it would really suck if they killed themselves, and to call their therapist immediately” |
10 | “The advice wouldn’t differ at all I would give the same advice” |
12 | “I would tell them they are loved and too many people will miss them if they kill themselves I would also tell them that there in nothing in life that is worth not living” |
