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    Sarah Schuster
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    Suicide
    September 7, 2022

    New Research Unlocks a Critical Resource for People Who Are Suicidal: Personal Essays

    There are few experiences more lonely than feeling like the world would be better off without you in it. When you’re suicidal, your thoughts feed on this isolation, and it can feel like no one understands what you’re going through.  The truth is, many people experience suicidal thoughts. In 2020, 12.2 million American adults seriously [...]
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    Let's Learn How to Better Help Survivors Immediately After a Suicide Loss

    Why Are We Conducting This Study? In 2016, nearly 45,000 people died by suicide in the Unites States alone. For each suicide, somewhere between six and 20 family and friends are affected. Every year around one to three quarter million people are touched by suicide. Despite this growing need, there remains much to be learned [...]
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    Jody Betty
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    I Want You to Want to Live

    The rate of suicide is on the rise worldwide in all age categories. It affects all ethnicities, cultures and religions. It is bias-free. It is a last resort, a desperate attempt to quell the never-ending and relentless pain that monopolizes your mind. It has become the only feasible way to rid yourself of the burdensome weight that [...]
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    Jennifer Wilson
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    The Difference Between Wanting to Die and Wanting the Pain to Stop

    I didn’t want to die. I only wanted the pain to stop: the pain that encircled and squeezed my ribcage, the heaviness that wrapped my brain in shadow, the agony that turned the whole world dark. I needed it to cease. It wasn’t one large trauma that convinced me death was my only option, but an unending [...]
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