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Suicide Attempts: Surviving, Preventing, and Transforming Your Life2026-06-01

A past suicide attempt is a horrific but also cathartic life event. All pretense is gone, you have hit rock bottom, and you can move up and rebuild your life and future.

It is also a strong predictor of future attempts and completions UNLESS something transformative is done. As a psychiatrist that has lost patients to suicide, that has become a life mission for me.

We have built MindX One® Blood Testing (https://mindxsciences.com/bloodtests/ ) to assess suicidality risk objectively, as well as match people with medications and nutraceuticals in a personalized way. Based on over two decades of published academic and clinical research, followed by 5 years of real-world use. It also looks at risks and treatments for depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis, pain, stress. Soon to be added alcohol. Those are top upstream biological drivers of suicidality.

People are not just biology, they are sociology as well. We have built Life x Improve® Digital Testing to assess for risk factors and recommend personalized life improvements. It does NOT ask about suicidal ideation, so can be administered in any setting. In its original academic iteration it was a scale we developed and validated called Convergent Functional Information for Suicidality (CFI-S), published and shown to work in multiple studies, in military and civilian populations.

Lastly, people are psychology. We have built the Life x Mind® App so people can track how they feel and think privately (including suicidal ideation), develop insights about which life activities help them, as well as get daily therapeutic micro-boosts of gratitude, optimism, and meaning in their lives.

Together, we believe this is the most comprehensive and transformative package to prevent future suicides, and build a life worth living. Like a Phoenix rising up from the ashes.

Live. Happier. Longer.

Alexander B. Niculescu, MD, PhD

Founder +CEO| MindX Sciences