Empowering communities to prevent suicide and offering hope and healing to survivors.
This piece was written by Bria Barrows, a Thought Catalog contributor
I know this is an extremely sensitive topic, but it is one that needs to be discussed.
Because I know for a fact that at one point in our lives, we have been suicidal or have known someone struggling with thes...
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Along with everything else, I wasn’t prepared for the stigma of becoming a widow this way.
By Peggy Wehmeyer
When I lost my husband in 2008, I learned that the shocking cause of his death wasn’t as rare as I had thought. More than 45,000 Americans died last year from suici...
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Jennifer Couzin Frankel
When my younger sister died by suicide 7 years ago, at age 30, the loss was shattering. If I considered the role of science at all, it was through the lens of failure—its failure to save her, along with the thousands who died before and after. More often, I pus...
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Dr. Julie Rickard thought her visit to Wisconsin over the Christmas holiday would bring a break from her day job working in suicide prevention in Wenatchee, Wash.
The visit didn’t go as planned. After a tense fight broke out between her mother and another family member, everyone ...
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