Tag: suicide prevention awareness
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What Is Passive Suicidal Ideation?
Explore passive suicidal ideation, its causes, risks, and how early intervention and mental health treatment can help prevent escalation and promote healing.
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Mental Health Support for Suicidal Ideation
Suicidal ideation is when a person is contemplating suicide, which may involve imagining how they would commit suicide, what the world would be like without them, or fantasizing about ending their pain through suicide. Suicidal ideation can arise from difficult life circumstances such as poverty or abuse, mental illness, poor physical health, trauma, or even…
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The Trauma for Suicide Loss Survivors
Sometimes life and mental health can become just too much for someone. Losing this person to suicide is a tragedy, and that tragedy creates ripples of pain and trauma for the loved ones they left behind. For these suicide loss survivors, the story doesn’t have to end. You can learn more about suicide, find support,…
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Success and Suicide
By Christa Banister Let’s be real. Who among us hasn’t daydreamed about how much happier life would be had we only bought the winning Powerball ticket? Or walked the red carpet at the Academy Awards, made partner at the firm, qualified for the Olympics, made a significant scientific discovery? As exciting and game-changing as all…
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Suicide Prevention Awareness: The Connection to Mental Health
By Anna McKenzie In addition to being National Recovery Month, September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Globally, suicide accounts for 1.4% of all deaths, and most suicides are related to mental health issues. In the US, suicide ranks No. 10 among leading causes of death overall. Risk of suicide increases based on the severity…