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They’re called “responders” – the folks at the other end of the Veterans Crisis Line. But they aren’t the only ones serving on the front-line of suicide prevention.
As a society, as colleagues, as friends, as family, we cannot leave the work of suicide prevention to the “responders” alone.
It is up to all of us to act or at least “ask” if we see someone unduly stressed according to psychologist, Dr. Caitlin Thompson, deputy director of suicide prevention at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“If worried – asking people straight out saying, ‘I’m so concerned about how you seem to be, have you been thinking about suicide at all?'” Thompson advised. “It’s just that simple really to just ask the question that can be a very scary question.”
It’s time to stop being “scared” and start becoming informed.
Here are tips from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office website:
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