Presentation on Suicide Awareness

1. Suicide
Awareness

3. What’s the point?
• How to help yourself heal as a survivor.
• How to support friends who are survivors.
• How to talk openly about mental illness and
suicide in order to reduce the stigma
attached to it.

7. What was helpful?
• Family
• Friends
- focus on a passion
- people with shared
experiences
• Acts of kindness

9. What wasn’t
helpful
• Lack of sensitivity
• Lack of local resources
• Stigma

10. “A person dying of suicide dies, as does
the victim of physical illness or accident,
against his or her will. People die from
physical heart attacks, strokes, cancer,
AIDS, and accidents. Death by suicide is
the same, except that we are dealing with
an emotional heart attack, an emotional
stroke, emotional AIDS, emotional cancer
and an emotional fatality.” (Rev. Ron
Rolheiser, 1998.)
http://www.survivorsofsuicidetucson.com/?p=19

13. Resources
• Suicide Crisis Hotline in Maine
1-888-568-1112
• National Suicide Prevention Line
1-800-273-TALK (8255)
• www.namimaine.org - National
Alliance on Mental Illness of
Maine. (Info and
support)1-800-464-5767
• www.suicidology.org - American
Association of Suicidology
(Education and prevention)
• www.afsp.org - American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention

14. To read full presentation, visit:
http://kristenkimball.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/morning-
assembly/