Link – Best way to tackle suicide rates is to be honest about our own mental health

“Suicide is the leading cause of death for 15 to 44-year-old Australians, but it is not something we talk about very often.

According to the Deputy CEO at Suicide Prevention Australia, Kim Borrowdale, that lack of talking is one of our main problems.

“We need to talk about it more not less. We need to talk about it in a way that encourages safe conversation and help-seeking and doesn’t sensationalise,” she said.”

Not talking about mental health is killing people. People who feel like they can’t ask for help, or should be ashamed of their struggles instead of understanding that they aren’t alone, and should feel no shame at all in seeking help.

How many more people must we lose?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-28/being-honest-about-mental-health-to-tackle-suicide-rates/7668796

Similar Posts

  • Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 27, 2020

    ‘Normalize Everything’ comedy show tackles mental illness Social Media and Mental Health: Dos and Don’ts Partner’s Depression Can Be Challenging To Our Relationship 10 mental health podcasts that help make struggles with depression, grief, autism, and other conditions easier to manage 8 Books to Read for a Kinder, Happier 2021 How To Help Someone Who…

  • |

    Links (weekly)

    Male Sexual Abuse Victims of Female Perpetrators tags: CA My Life With Iron Man by @rickbelden tags: CA Mental Health Hotline Numbers and Referral Resources tags: CA Victims Think They May Be The Abuser tags: CA Protecting Your Children From Sexual Predators tags: CA Accepting Submissions for the January 2012 Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse…

  • Link – Making Room for Gray

    “Now consider our abuse occurring during this childhood developmental stage, before our little brains have opportunity to grow, develop and experience different perspectives. We are stuck and frozen in a time continuum with one-or-the-other or black and white thinking. Our world partly becomes defined by the perceptions we held during the abusive experience. These perceptions,…

  • |

    Links I’m Sharing (weekly)

    Introduction to Megan Law, Author of ‘Mental Illness in the Family’ Good Treatment For Mental Illness Still Scarce In U.S. Prisons Video games to tackle mental health stigma Study Tests Cost-Effective Approach for Treating Major Depression in Prison Teens and Suicide: What Parents Should Know Talking about mental health is only the beginning Why Developing…

  • Sharing – Comment: Speaking up about mental health issues is not enough

    This was Laura’s experience in Scotland, but it’s not really any different anywhere else. I’m university-educated, pretty tenacious, and am lucky enough to have very strong social support systems around me but navigating NHS mental healthcare took exactly the sort of clear-headed determination that I wasn’t feeling. The fact of the matter is, the mental…

  • Sharing – How to Find Hope When Everything Feels Hopeless

    Anchoring myself in the present moment means focusing on the situation in front of me and doing what I can to improve it. That can mean donating money or time to causes I care about, calling elected representatives, supporting the people around me who are suffering, speaking out where I can, educating where I can, and staying aware of opportunities to do the things I can do. 

    The hope doesn’t lie in one person changing everything; it lies in enough of us doing what we can to make that change. 

7 Comments

  1. We also need better health care coverage for issues with mental health.
    It is to costly and you wont get help if you cant afford it.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)