SUICIDE PREVENTION

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Converse County Suicide Prevention Coalition

Local & National Resources

We have gathered a number of resources to help you have those tough conversations about mental health and suicide prevention.

Warning signs of suicide include

Suicide can be prevented. While some suicides occur without any outward warning, most people who are suicidal do give warnings. Prevent the suicide of loved ones by learning to recognize the signs of someone at risk, taking those signs seriously and knowing how to respond to them.

  • Observable signs of serious depression:
    • Unrelenting low mood
    • Pessimism
    • Hopelessness
    • Desperation
    • Anxiety, psychic pain and inner tension
    • Withdrawal
    • Sleep problems
  • Increased alcohol and/or other drug use
  • Recent impulsiveness and taking unnecessary risks
  • Threatening suicide or expressing a strong wish to die
  • Making a plan:
    • Giving away prized possessions
    • Sudden or impulsive purchase of a firearm
    • Obtaining other means of killing oneself such as poisons or medications
  • Unexpected rage or anger

The emotional crises that usually precede suicide are often recognizable and treatable. Although most depressed people are not suicidal, most suicidal people are depressed. Serious depression can be manifested in obvious sadness, but often it is rather expressed as a loss of pleasure or withdrawal from activities that had been enjoyable. One can help prevent suicide through early recognition and treatment of depression and other psychiatric illnesses.

If you are in crisis or are concerned about someone you know, please call the National Suicide Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

When you’re struggling and in crisis, call or text 988, and a trained counselor will listen, support, and share resources with you. You don’t need to go through this alone!

You are worthy. Your loved ones are worthy.

You or your loved one can feel better.
You can feel like yourself.
You can feel happy.

IF YOU ARE IN CRISIS:

CALL THE LIFELINE AT 988 OR
TEXT 988 TO CHAT ONLINE