People struggling with thoughts of suicide or self-harm often drop hints to friends in conversation, in emails — even on Facebook. The social network is adding resources to help people having such thoughts, it announced on Wednesday. Starting in the next few months, a post indicating suicidal or harmful thoughts can be flagged by a friend as such, at which point Facebook will be alerted — after advising the flagger to call emergency services if deemed necessary. "We have team

LANGHORNE, Pa. (WPVI) -- SEPTA is continuing its suicide prevention campaign. Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia stood with SEPTA officials Thursday in Langhorne as they unveiled new signs displaying a hotline number for those in need to call. She knows what it's like to lose a child to suicide. Ellis-Marseglia lost her daughter to suicide 10 years ago. "There are lots of different things we need to do to prevent suicide, but this is a pretty important one

Taken from www.huffingtonpost.com 1/5/2015 There's no doubt that the rising veteran suicide rate is one of the most serious issues currently being discussed in the news. With various reports focusing on different statistics and emphasizing different areas of concern, however, it can be difficult to determine precisely what information is being conveyed. What is the suicide rate among military veterans, and how have these numbers been compiled? The most commonly cited figures

Taken from www.huffingtonpost.com 2/9/2015 "Mr. Fiorella, we've found your son. I'm sorry...." After a frantic search for our 19-year-old son, these were the first words shared by the police officer who reported that my son had been found dead, by his own hands. It's a phrase that will forever be etched in my mind; words that continue to elicit conflicting emotions and memories. They conjure the paralyzing pain I felt at that moment, a pain so deep, I feared it might stop my

From www.commonhealth.org BOSTON — More than two years after her son’s suicide, Susan LaCaire, of Spencer, still has a hard time opening up about it with those outside her closest circle. “I always say we lost Luke. I never tell people how we lost Luke, unless they ask me,” LaCaire explains. “There is a stigma, and I think a lot of people look at Luke’s death as senseless. He could have lived and he chose not to.” But the LaCaires are on a mission to bring suicide out of the

An article written by Dustin Jones, a USMC veteran who served tours of duty with Cpl Dane Freedman. Please click the link below to read the article. He writes... "This is an article I wrote while I was in Australia. It was published on the school site, which was pretty cool, and it got a pretty emotional response from a few students and staff. It's about a good friend of mine, back in Australia, and his struggles with the Australian VA and reintegrating into civilian life.

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This is something we unfortunately know all too well. It was known by the VA that Dane was suffering from suicidal thoughts and he was even placed in a "suicide prevention program". The two emergency contacts written down on his prevention program were never contacted when he canceled psychiatric appointments without reason. That definitely is considered a "red flag" for someone who is suicidal. Read the following article for more details about how this is happening more and

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ARTICLE!!! Many veterans face an injury that goes largely unacknowledged — but journalist David Wood is bringing it to the forefront. "I think that almost everyone who returns from war has suffered some kind of moral injury," Wood tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "And I do not mean by that that they have done something wrong — only that they have seen or experienced things, which violate their own sense of who they are, their own sense of right and wrong, the

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOK!!! Title: Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War Author: Rita Nakashima Brock ISBN-10: 0807029122 ISBN-13: 978-0807029121 “Soul Repair is an eloquent, deeply human reminder that war is not just what takes place on a distant battlefield. It is something that casts a shadow over the lives of those who took part for decades afterwards. The stories told by Lettini and Brock are deepened by what the authors reveal about the way the tragic threa