Ok, so lets be pedantically logical. &quot;Absolutely&quot; is qualifying the word &quot;sure&quot;. The definition of sure is:<p>Sure: confident in what one thinks or knows; having no doubt that one is right.<p>So to be &#x27;absolutely sure&#x27; means you are totally 100% confident in your thinking, but this does not necessarily mean you are predicting the future. You can be sure of something and still be proven wrong.<p>The therapist did not say &quot;are you absolutely certain you will not under any circumstances kill yourself&quot;, she just asked if in her mind and from her perspective, she had the confidence of not killing herself (regardless of any unforeseen circumstances of say the apocalypse happening).