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Suicide is a serious public health problem. Approximately 500,000 people each year require emergency room treatment as a result of attempted suicide. Even though the Fierce Goodbye web site is focused primarily on survivors of suicide, suicide prevention is an important consideration.
If someone is struggling with depression
or acutely suicidal, get them treatment.
This is often easier said than done.
If they won't get into treatment,
walk them to an emergency room,
do not leave them alone,
commit them against their will.
One of the most difficult things
that a parent can ever have to do
is commit a child to a psychiatric hospital,
but if it's necessary and it saves the child's life,
then that's what has to be done.
This is not an easy business.
Dr. Kay Jamison, psychologist, Johns Hopkins University
Common Misunderstandings in Suicide Prevention
Myths and truths about suicide.
Suicide Prevention Help
Practical steps to help prevent suicide.
We started TEACH Hotline
(Teen Education and Crisis Hotline) in 1990.
When Kurt Cobain killed himself,
we received over 100 calls in less than 30 minutes
and we couldn't answer all the calls
because they just flooded the hotline.
We've made 1,065 direct suicide interventions
since we started the hotline.
Last year we worked over 13,000 calls
through to the crisis center
and sometimes it averaged between 50 and 60 a day.
Fred Davis, Founder of Parents Against Teen Suicide
Inside I Ache Video
Review of this guide for professionals working with teens regarding suicide
Links
National Hopeline Network - 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433)
American Association of Suicidology
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
Centre for Suicide Information
The Jason Foundation
Lifekeeper
Suicide awareness, education and prevention through art forms such as Lifekeepers jewelry, poetry and the Lifekeeper's National Memory Quilt project.
The Link Counseling Center
Non-profit counseling center, Atlanta, GA
LookHealthFit.com
Health directory
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
National Center for Disease Control and Prevention
National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association
National Hopeline Network, Kristin Brooks Hope Center
National Institute of Mental Health
National Mental Health Association (NMHA)
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
The Organization for Attempters and Survivors of Suicide in Interfaith Services (OASSIS)
Prevent Suicide Now
SAVE - Suicide Awareness/Voices of Education
Suicide and Crisis Helplines Around the World
Suicide Information and Education Center (SIEC)
SIEC holds the world's largest English language collection of materials on suicide and suicidal behaviours with more than 31,000 references to print and audiovisual resources on prevention, intervention, and postvention. Also offers suicide prevention training program (SPTP).
Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA)
Suicide Prevention Help
Includes a Friendship letter for those who are despairing and thinking about suicide, and a Web directory of suicide prevention resesources from around the world. NEW as of Feb. 2007.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Suicide 1999
Trevor Helpline
National prevention hotline for gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth - 866-4-U-TREVOR
Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program
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