Dear NCAA: Now Is the Time To Make a Change
Topic: suicide prevention
How would our classrooms, our homes, and our world be different if schools were empowered to teach the skills needed to boost resilience, (emotional) regulation, and relationships?
Sometimes hope is the thing that convinces us with no shortage of turmoil to stay put as we wait for the tides to turn.
Suicide is seen as tragic, but it isn’t something to ridicule, belittle, or demean.
Preventing suicide also means learning about and understanding what makes people consider suicide. Dr. Thomas Joiner helps us do just that.
What would happen if instead of telling “negative” or “difficult” kids that their outcries were disruptive and made people feel uncomfortable, we told them they have a right to feel all the complicated emotions and not just the pretty ones?
In the inevitable moments of pain and darkness, try to remember that you are someone’s Patrick to their Aundre...
There are days I don't want to miss.
The day before I tried to end my life I wrote that my children, stories, and music were what kept me going.
700,000 people die by suicide globally each year. It is an epidemic. We want to change the numbers. We want another day with you.
Your story isn't finished—but you have to make the choice to keep writing it.
Are you scared of phoning a suicide hotline? Not sure what will happen when you call? Learn more about what to expect when you call the suicide hotline.
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