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Heads up: sensitive topic - suicide. Did you know that suicide rates go up in spring and summer? That might sound counterintuitive. However, suicide rates are the highest in April and June. Make sure to check in with the young people you know and watch out for signs like the ones in the picture below. Additionally, if you or someone you know is in crisis, please don't hesitate to call or text 988 to access the suicide and crisis lifeline. If you just need someone to talk to, you can find a warm line at this link: [https://lnkd.in/gdR4hB-s). Picture Credit: NAMI #mentalhealthawarenessmonth

It’s OK to not be OK. If you are having thoughts of suicide, please know that you are #neverabother and you are not alone. Learn more ways on how you can get support at NeveraBother.org. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

Today is National Suicide Prevention Day, and it marks 10 years since my boys lost their father to suicide. Not many of my connections know this, and it's easy to assume that someone with a successful career and stable home life couldn't possibly be affected by something so catastrophic. But therein lies the problem: the only way to eliminate the stigma associated with suicide is to break down these assumptions. Encourage difficult conversations with those you care about and ask people if they are OK. Suicide doesn't just take away the person who makes that choice; it changes everyone connected to that person too. Let's work together to end the stigma surrounding suicide. #suicideprevention #endthestigma #mentalhealth #worklifebalance

It is estimated that there are currently more than 700,000 suicides per year worldwide, and we know that each suicide profoundly affects many more people. If you are thinking about suicide, or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text 988 to talk to a professional at the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Learn more here: https://hubs.la/Q021m7lG0

If you think someone might be considering suicide, take the first step and #BeThe1To ask. Ask directly, “Are you thinking about killing yourself?" or "Are you thinking about hurting yourself?". As scary and uncomfortable as that may seem, you could be the one to save someone's life. It won't plant a seed of thought they aren't already having. Talking is the first step to preventing suicide. For every person who dies by suicide annually, 316 people seriously consider suicide but do not kill themselves. @988lifeline There is HOPE. Ask Be there Keep them safe Help them connect Follow up For more details on these five steps visit the link in our bio.

“As being in the world always implies an emotional way of being in the world, inequality always implies an emotional way of registering and constituting inequality. These remarks suggest three closely related topics: the relative dimension of inequality, the emotional dimension of inequality, and the discrepancy between subjectively felt and objectively measurable inequality. Perceptions of social and economic differences and distances shape how and where we situate ourselves within the larger frame of our society and how we relate to others within this frame.” Martin Hartmann 2023 As Carolyn Spring frames it the brain can maturate in socialisation; brains becoming recognisable, "many multivariate findings point to the lasting effects of childhood psychopathology on functional outcomes in emerging adulthood and point to the need for a public health approach to youth mental health." Public health as global health metrics often harvests knowledge in a high altitude way, often missing how "Individuals certainly make choices, but they do so within structural and historical contexts not of their making. Motivation and Morality. American Psychological Association. 2023 "Historically, trauma studies have neglected vulnerable populations, as well as the experience and aftermath of trauma in non-Western cultures. Although art and literature are replete with descriptions of posttrauma reactions in non-Western countries devastated by war, genocide, and other geopolitical conflicts, it is unclear from these accounts if these reactions map neatly onto current Westernized definitions of ASD and PTSD" The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders (Oxford Library of Psychology) 2022 "The term socialization refers to processes whereby naive individuals are taught the skills, behavior patterns, values, and motivations needed for competent functioning in the culture in which the child is growing up. Paramount among these are the social skills, social understandings, and emotional maturity needed for interaction with other individuals to fit in with the functioning of social dyads and larger groups. Socialization processes include all those whereby culture is transmitted from each generation to the next, including training for specific roles in specific occupations. To speak of cross-generational cultural transmission might imply that “culture” is something static, encapsulated, and that the new generation is being rubber-stamped in the image of its predecessors. But, of course, cultures can and do undergo rapid change under the impact of new technology, warfare, climate change, pestilence, and, in recent generations, contraception?" Handbook of Socialization, Second Edition 2015 (p. 3). Eleanor E. Maccoby

Working with suicide is working with distress. The aim is not just to save a life but to restore the hope that life can be lived without such distress making it intolerable. Find out more on my course: https://lnkd.in/ex9fQamv  #trauma #TherapistsConnect #suicideprevention

Suicide is complicated and tragic, but it is often preventable. Knowing the warning signs for suicide and how to get help can help save lives. Learn about behaviors that may indicate that someone is thinking about suicide. For more information, visit https://hubs.la/Q021Y6Lx0  #suicideprevention