Suicide Prevention

On Thursday November 19, following the carreer workshop, I went to a suicide prevention workshop. This workshop showed a short movie about students who tried to commit suicide, had friends that were in depression and tried to commit suicide, or lost friends due to depression. The movie was set out to tell people that depression can be dealt with, and gave several methods of dealing with depression. It also told people that suicide is not the way to get out of depression. Many of the people in the video shared their own stories of why they attempted to commit suicide and what type of problems they had, as well as explaining how their friends helped them deal with depression and thoughts about suicide. After the workshop there was a small discussion about whether anyone experienced these problems. The video taught me signs that I should not ignore, such as unusual changes in a friend’s behavior, and I will know what to do incase that ever happens.

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