#SuicidePrevention requires TRAINING. This powerful image inspired by comic bit.ly/1NzRm2r says it all.

#SPSM Let's make sure everyone is aware of @AASuicidology Clinician Survivor Task Force cliniciansurvivor.org for support & resources for all who work (vol or paid) helping reduce suicide who experience suicide deaths in our personal or professional lives

#SPSM We need to understand that grief is love & grief is forever & we can thrive while living with grief, even grief from suicide. We need to talk about grief & about suicide. My favorite book on grief is: Megan Devine's It's OK That You're Not OK. refugeingrief.com/book/

#SPSM Long ago in SLTB, Shneidman said 90% of people who die by suicide show warning signs AND 90% of people who show warning signs do NOT die by suicide. (I can find article later :-))

#SPSM Many have 2 or more types of exper w suicide! Red 4 those who died by suicide; Purple 4 living w suicide grief; Blue 4 liv'g w suicide thots, selfharm, attempts; Yellow 4 family-friends support'g suicidal loved ones; White 4 work'g (vol or paid) support'g suicidal ppl.

#SPSM Peter Wollheim was long-time voice of suicide prevention in Idaho, AAS member, beautiful-in-all-the-ways person who died by suicide in 2015 idahostatesman.com/news/loca…

Let's make sure everyone is aware of @AASuicidology Clinician Survivor Task Force cliniciansurvivor.org/ for support & resources for all who work (vol or paid) helping reduce suicide who experience suicide deaths in our personal or professional lives

#SPSM folks: I'm sad & glad for our topic. Let's talk about how we ARE affected by suicide deaths, even when we know a lot about grief & about suicide grief. If I wasn't affected, I wouldn't be able to do good work with people. Grief is about love. Listening is too.

Thnx @MichaelPaulson @nytimes "rarely possible 2 know exactly Y some1 takes his own life, & #suicide generally has multiple causes." "Determining the cause of suicide is... difficult. Many people R treated roughly @ work... w/out killing themselves." tinyurl.com/y749xuyx #SPSM

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#Poet #Actor #BuddyWakefield #Meditation #Excitement #TalkWithME #podcast 2018-02-26 talkwithmelawrenceks.podbean… Buddy #Performance in #KCMO 2018-03-22 facebook.com/events/13872421… More at facebook.com/TalkWithMeOnVoi… & buddywakefield.com/

#LoveWins #SuicideSucks #WordsSaveLives #PoemsForPrisonersLivingWithSuicide #ReachingOutFromWithin 💖🧡💛💚💙💜 #WolfgangCarstens PerpetualPallbearer #TaylorMali TheWhettingStone #RondaMiller MoonStain #AnnetteBillings Descants4ADaughter #SPSM

#SPSM Small sample: People in my SOSA support groups over the past 2-1/2 years who have had ECT do not recommend it, because of the memory gaps, and their depression, suicidality continues. Med's aren't perfect either. But let's not say ECT "really works" for everyone

LaLaLa... #BrianMishara on Origins of #SuicidePrevention Organizations 1893-1906 Lemberg Volunteer Rescue Society 1906 #SalvationArmy Antisuicide Bureau, London 1947 neyropsychiatry clini at U of Vienna 1953 Rev Chad Varah, in London church 1958 #LA #SuicidePrevention Ctr #SPSM

Hey #SPSM from #LawrenceKS where I love my work with with trans & gender nonconforming youth, and with people #LivingWithSuicide, including planning a new annual retreat that includes #FamilyFriends of #Survivors of #Suicide #Thoughts #SelfHarm #Attempts

"#OakTreeGunClub would embed #SuicidePrevention & awareness into staff #TrainingPrograms. They have agreed to put SuicidePrevention material into every single #firearm they sell." signalscv.com/2018/01/suicid… “It’s not a #GunControl issue, it’s a firearms #MeansReduction issue." #SPSM

#KansasDayOfFasting #30January2018 #LoveWins 💖🧡💛💚💙💜

"We're one step away from Hitler and the nazis" ~ @DocForeman about censorshp related to #LoganPaul and... this applies to USA in other ways, too #SPSM

So happy to see & hear the AMAZING @BartAndrews!!! 💖💖💖 #SPSM

Stayin' Alive #SupportGroup for 18yo & older #Survivors of #Suicide #Thoughts #Attempts #SelfHarm in the #KC #LawrenceKS #TopekaKS area meets in #LawrenceKS facebook.com/Stayin.Alive.La… #SPSM

Perpetual Pallbearer, stunning #poetry by #WolfgangCarstens #love #hate #life #death #remembering #dogs #BuyTheBook @ WolfgangCarstens.com #CoverArt by #Poet #Photographer #PitbullWalker #Painter #RobPlath illustrations by #Poet #Publisher #Illustrator #JanneKarlsson