Mental Health & Suicide Prevention
Resources:
American Association of Suicidology
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Band Back Together: Suicide Resources
International Association for Suicide Prevention
Mental Health America: Get Help
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Articles:
What is Mental Illness? (from the NAMI website)
Guest Opinion: Keep Calm and Parent On — What can parents do right now to decrease the risk of suicide in their children? by Adam Strassbeg, M.D. (Palo Alto Online, March 2015)
The cost of not caring: Nowhere to go: The Financial and Human Toll for Neglecting the Mentally Ill by Liz Szabo (USA Today, May 2014)
SafeTALK Suicide Alertness for Everyone by Cristi Comes (Motherhood Unadorned, May 2013)
“I Will Never Know Why” by Susan Klebold (Oprah, April 2013)
The Cluster Conundrum: Copycat Teen Deaths in Lake Forest by Bryan Smith (Chicago magazine, July 2012)
Jumpers: The Fatal Grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge by Tad Friend (The New Yorker, October 2003)
Letter from the Gatekeeper by Meg Hutchinson (January 2013)
Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge (Yahoo Screen, January 2013)
Is Suicide Selfish? by Cristi Comes (Motherhood Unadorned, August 2011)
My Posts and Series:
It’s Not Your Fault (February 2019)
Stepping Down (March 2017)
Here and There (August 2014)
The Morning After (June 2014)
What Does it Mean to be Mentally Ill? (May 2014)
Gatekeepers (September 2011)
Gatekeeping (regular series)
How to Save a Life (August 2011)
