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Project Semicolon Promotes Suicide Prevention & Mental Health Awareness

Every year 894,950 people attempt suicide. Do you know why the symbol used by Project Semicolon represents hope for dealing with suicide and mental illness?<br>

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Project Semicolon Promotes Suicide Prevention & Mental Health Awareness

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  1. Project Semicolon Promotes Suicide Prevention & Mental Health Awareness

  2. Suicide, tragically, is all too common. Not only is it a sign that someone’s suffering was so intense they felt it necessary to end their life, but it leaves in its wake a trail of additional victims: friends, family, loved ones, and entire communities.

  3. Project semicolon Every year 894,950 people attempt suicide. Do you know why the symbol used by Project Semicolon represents hope for dealing with suicide and mental illness?

  4. Project Semicolon is a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention of suicide. Founded in 2013, the organization has helped some 5.2 million and believes, according to their website, “suicide is generally preventable” and “is the collective responsibility of each and every person on the planet.”

  5. Amy Bleuel, the creator of Project Semicolon, told The Mighty in 2015. She added, “We see it as you are the author and your life is the sentence. You’re choosing to keep going.”

  6. Amy used the semicolon symbol as a way to honor her father who died from suicide and as a way to help others dealing with depression and mental illness find hope.

  7. Chris Cornell, one of the original creators of the rock genre “Seattle Grunge” and front-man for the iconic band Soundgarden, as well as Audioslave. “My name is Chester. I had the great privilege of being a friend of Chris and invited to be a member of his family,” Chester Bennington told the mourners at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Just two months later, in July, Bennington took his own life at his home in Los Angeles. 2017 has brought two high-profile suicides

  8. The show is about a suicide victim, a young woman, who left recordings for a boy she had a crush on, with 13 reasons why she took her own life. Television shows and films about mental illness are not new, but they can be a valuable tool that raises awareness around the issue of suicide. Controversial series launched this year called “13 Reasons Why.”

  9. Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia puts into perspective the disconcerting statistics on suicide. These include some of the following: The Statistics of Suicide

  10. SUICIDE STATS • Every year 34,598 people die from suicide, an average of 94 people a day • Across all age groups, suicide is the 11th leading cause of preventable death • A staggering 894,950 people attempt suicide each year, which is one person every 38 seconds • On average, emergency rooms across the country see nearly 400,000 patients a year for self-inflicted injuries • College campuses deal with an average of 1,000 suicides annually • Among young adults aged 15 to 24, suicide is the third-leading cause of preventable death • Among people aged 25 to 34, suicide is the second-leading cause of preventable death

  11. Why Do People Become Suicidal? Number of factors play into why a person might become suicidal: • Addiction to alcohol • Drugs to depression • Bipolar disorders • Eating disorders, such as anorexia.

  12. Why Do People Become Suicidal? Complicating matters is the fact that a vast majority of people living with mental illness use alcohol and drugs to self-medicate, which can lead to addiction and magnify whatever mental disorder is plaguing them. This is known as a dual diagnosis or a co-occurring disorder.

  13. Managing Addiction and Mental Illness Both mental illness and addiction are treatable conditions that people can recover from. Each illness though, must first be diagnosed, which isn’t always a simple matter of seeing a family physician before the conditions can be treated individually.

  14. Project Semicolon Project Semicolon notes that 75 percent of suicide victims share their plans ahead of time. Therefore, it’s incumbent on friends, family, educators and everyone to reach out to those they believe might be struggling. Even small actions can make the difference to saving a person’s life.

  15. Sadly, 31-year-old Amy Bleuel, Project Semicolon’s founder, lost her more than 20-year fight with mental illness and took her own life earlier this year. Michael Shields, CEO of the project, had this to say:

  16. “Today, although sad, we’re reminded of the reason why Project Semicolon exists. Suicide has the ability to strike at the heart of the very cause aims to eliminate it. Today we lost a giant and from this day on, together, we’ll carry her legacy forward.”

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