January 2012
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nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident asked: Thanks for posting Louise Tam's article, "From Risk to Harm..." I'm subscribed to Compassion Alerts where Tumblr users respond to posts that suggest that a user will commit suicide. According to this article, alerting the authorities may not be a good idea, as people may misinterpret the user's behavior and/or it may go on their criminal record. Do you have any suggestions...
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Google+, YouTube, and Facebook, as recreated with... →
December 2011
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"From Risk to Harm and from Harm to Suicide" by... →
However, a growing number of self-advocacy groups and allies assert that attention-seeking and attempted suicide are professional myths about self-harm… More importantly, he notes that people with experiences with self-harm identify strongly with the concept of survival. Activists such as Louise Pembroke have spoken about needing to self-injure to stay alive and survive the pain of...
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Solstice
It’s winter Solstice, which is the longest night of the year. How are you spending it?
(photo by Jennifer Gandin Le)
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Do you have teh Facebooks? Now you can get crisis... →
It's National Recovery Month - Send a SAMHSA... →
WatchDJ Total Eclipse kills it in this video. And we love how much he’s enjoying himself. What’s something that makes you this happy? For me (Chris) it’s photography, although I’m nowhere near as skilled as this cat.
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Somedays it's tough
Do you ever feel like it’s hard, being in a helping position? Even we have bad days. What do you do on when things feel kinda tough?
Eliza and Siri
I love this. Jordan Mechner introduced the iPhone AI Siri to the MIT devleoped “AI” created in 1960. The result is wonderful and meta-intelligent.
Eliza was the first e-therapist - and she was my first experience with therapy. I love that she’s based on Rogerian principals rather than Freudian.
Check out what happens when two great artificial minds meet!
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ELIZA
Hello, I...
theonesleftbehind asked: I have just begun a blog to help the people left behind after someone commits suicide. Would you mind spreading the word? I think it's really important we all stick together when it comes to mental health and I believe my blog can really help people. Thank you for your time.
September 2011
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Keep it classy my love: Suicide prevention day... →
kittysexdubstep:
Normally I don’t post a lot of texts post unless to update you but suicide prevention is something really important too me and I really feel like I should somewhat talk about it to my wonderful followers.
Okay, I have had a good friend of mine pass away due to suicide. I know lots of people who…
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How to Help A Suicidal Friend Online
You.
You see someone online who’s expressing suicidal thoughts. How can you help? You’re no expert in suicide prevention.
You *are* an expert on your friends. You know when something’s not right.
Take them seriously. If you’re wrong, no big deal. If you’re right, you could save their life.
You might notice that these sites use language like “report” or...
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Compassion Alert on Tumblr →
A blog dedicated to reaching out to Tumbloggers who have expressed suicidal thoughts or just need a kind word.
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Featured Story: My life as a depressed college... →
A great post from our friends at ReachOut.com about making it through dark times.
reachoutusa:
For many of us, leaving home to attend college is an incredibly difficult transition. It can easily lead to depression and loss of hope. Here’s a story about how one woman managed to make it through those dark times.
Photo...
International Suicide Prevention Wiki →
Worldwide directory of suicide prevention hotlines, text-lines, and resources.
It's more than a week
It’s Suicide Prevention Week - which is a big deal to those of us trying to get the word out. But it’s a bigger deal to people that have lost loved ones to suicide, and a huge deal to those of you that have found yourself at that edge. Just wanted to send love out to everyone that has been touched by suicide. Thank you for your work, thank you for being here.
-Chris Gandin Le
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Live Through This: I’m nearing the end of History... →
lttphoto:
I’m nearing the end of History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life, a memoir by Jill Bialosky. Years after her sister committed suicide, Bialosky contacted Dr. Edwin Shneidman to piece together a psychological autopsy.
In talking, he gave her a key piece of information—one thing everyone should know about suicide and its prevention:
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Just Like Honey: “Dr. Jerome Motto, who has been... →
tokyobabydoll:
“Dr. Jerome Motto, who has been part of two failed suicide barrier coalitions, is now retired and living in San Mateo. When I visited him there, we spent three hours talking about the bridge. Motto had a patient who committed suicide from the Golden Gate in 1963, but the jump that affected him…
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I'm Jocelyn: Listen up! →
j0c3lyn:
Followers, I’d like to take the time to tell everyone about Suicide Prevention Day that’s coming up in September. I lost one of my good friends to Suicide on October 3rd, 2010. Cole Wilson was his name, and he was 17 years old. 17 fucking years old! Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death in…
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Facebook and World Suicide Prevention Day →
A great note about how Facebook is working to keep all of its users safe, and what to do if you encounter suicidal material on their site.
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A Message from Lifeline on World Suicide... →
Gillian Murphy at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline writes about how Facebook users can help their friends in need.
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Lindsay Brohan: A guy I went to college with... →
gnarltonbanks:
A guy I went to college with committed suicide yesterday. I didn’t know him well, but most of my friends were also his friends or people who knew him. From what I’ve learned about him over the past four years and the few times I spoke with him personally, I’ve gathered that he was a nice guy who…
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“Because it is normal to worry that we could have prevented someone from harming...”
– from “Talking About Someone Who Died By Suicide” by Miki Tesh (via suicidology.org)
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Mischief Managed: Its national suicide prevention... →
emandem:
Any other year this week would have passed me by like it was totally normal. I probably would have seen something somewhere and thought “oh yeah ok suicide prevention. cool.” but this year it has such a different meaning. All those other years I never knew what it actually felt like to lose…
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I'm going to put LERMAN on my sweatpants. Here's... →
thiswolffbites:
During my junior year of high school I was diagnosed with major depression. Every morning I’d get up and contemplate suicide. I was under a lot of stress at school with two AP level tests coming up (& I was failing miserably at them), I was a major lead in the school play, I had been staying up…
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Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend somewhere...
theyoungrestlessandreckless:
Reblog if you have ever lost someone to suicide. This has got to stop. We all need to rise and help these people. All they need is someone who cares about them. More and more people are taking their own lives, and we could have done something to stop it. All you have to do is try and befriend them. Little acts of kindness can make a big difference to someone.
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Today when I went into work, I was in one of the worst moods I could have possibly been in. Shortly after I clocked in, this lady came in. She was picking up three sandwiches. I was on the grill cooking a steak and cheese; so my manager rung her up.
Lady: I'm having a terrible day.
Manager: Oh what's wrong?
Lady: I started going back to school and seeing all the other kids makes me really sad.
Manager: Why?
Lady: *starts tearing up* My daughter died last year right around now.
Manager: *takes her hand* I am so sorry.
Lady: *starts bawling* She hung herself.
Me coming into work wishing I was dead, made me feel like a terrible person. This moved me so much, you have no idea. After the conversation my manager and the lady sat down and talked for a good half hour. She had to go back to work and close. I almost cried listening to her story. I couldn't even handle it. People, including myself, should never think about killing themselves. Seeing the hurt it brought to that mom was unbearable. If you ever think no one will care, someone will.
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“Someone you love has ended their own life — and yours is forever changed.
You...”
– from the SOS Handbook: a pocket-sized, quick-reference booklet for suicide survivors. By Jeffrey Jackson (PDF download).
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LindsayCarpenter: Rachael: Yellow →
lindsaycarpenter:
Yellow is the color for suicide prevention. In recent years Rachael said she hated the color yellow. But I know this wasn’t always so. In 4th or 5th grade this is what Rachael wrote about yellow:
Yellow is sparklers and sunshine and energy
Yellow is the taste of lemonade.
Butter and…
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Metaphoricheart: the things we don't talk about. →
metaphoricheart:
Suicide.
It never seems to come up until it happens near us. Until it’s thrown in our face. But it’s everywhere. The person you bumped into today, the person who mows your lawn, the person who took your order, the person who sits behind you in math class.
Me.
The first time I had something…
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grungerabbit gallery: why you can call me, anytime →
grgallery:
The telephone rang completely out of the blue; I can only provide whispers of this story. My mother, long before she assumed that role, picked up that call instead. It was Taiwan in the early 80s, rigidly constrained by shoulder pads and denim.
“Hello, who is this?” she probably asked….
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Suicide prevention poem →
dizzydaisies:
The suicide prevention poem by Paul Rooney:
Suicide Prevention Poem
THE GOOD LIFE
Our lives have never been better We believe this to the letter We’re all a little richer Ain’t this such a pretty picture But what we’ve hidden from view No one wants to pursue You see the pain is held inside And this means it can’t subside So many seek an escape Which they can’t communicate So...