And now, just like that, it’s over. How can summer abandon us so quickly? Surely, it’s not truly September. Surely, three months haven’t passed already.Oh, damn.Time is like one of those trick mirrors in a funhouse. For me, it elongates in winter, and it's magically...
Like millions of other people in the world, I was transfixed this past week by reports of five people stuck in a locked, cramped cylinder deep in the ocean near the Titanic wreckage. I compulsively checked the news for days -- until the authorities discovered on...
About 15 years ago, I promised a publisher I’d write a book called Suicide Assessment and Intervention for Social Workers. And I wrote. For many hours, day and night, I wrote. And then, inscrutably, words became boulders too heavy to push onto the page. I tried. I...
People often ask me how I manage to study, teach, treat, talk, and write about suicidality nearly every day, without despair or hopelessness crippling me. In case it’s helpful to you, here’s self-care advice I put together, based on my own experiences. Talk about your...
I started my first blog, Speaking of Suicide, in 2013. It really took off, and it’s received more than 6 million views and 9,000 comments from readers. In this new blog, I won’t talk about suicide much. Not because suicide is bad or taboo or anything like that,...
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