Dear All
This is a mental health awareness week.
I thought you may be interested in this suicide awareness course https://www.zerosuicidealliance.com/training.
Suicide seems more of an epidemic than COVID-19 so far. The WHO estimated that 800,000 people died by suicide in 2016.
There’s a 5-minuted shorter version and a 20 minutes full course.
Main takeways:
- see the problem, say the words, signpost to support
- be prepared
- talk
- just being there, starting a conversation and listening is how you can help
- ask if they saw a health professional
- use the word “suicide“
- ask about a plan and if they’d done something
- what we can do now to make things a bit more manageable?
- offer practical help and support
- if someone is in the middle of a suicide attempt you have to get them to a safe place where they can get help
- don’t remind them that their suicide would hurt others, it could make them feel worse
- keep them “safe for now“
- families should be actively involved professional interventions
The course has been promoted by this BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52702048.
Everyone should be aware, able to detect signs and know what to do.
JitkaNeuroCoaching 