Find out how talking about suicide and listening to people who want to share their experiences can save lives in this article by expert Anne Moss Rogers.
Anne Moss Rogers is a mental health speaker and author of the book “Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk” and the award-winning memoir “Diary of a Broken Mind.” She advocates tirelessly for mental health and suicide prevention. Find Anne Moss Rogers at AnneMossRogers.com.
In 2015, my son Charles took his own life at age twenty during an episode of major depression and withdrawal from heroin. By 2017, I had sold my business and…
Talking about suicide saves lives. Comprehensive studies by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health have been conducted addressing that point alone. The results are irrefutable…
In the spring of 2016, a local mom contacted Beacon Tree Foundation after her 15-year-old daughter had survived a suicide attempt. The email was heart-wrenching: “On Sunday, February 28, Carolyn…
This list of resources regarding mental illness and suicide prevention is provided by Anne Moss Rogers to accompany her article, When a Child Dies: 7 Things I Wish I Had…
Our state ranks forty-seventh for treatment of childhood major depression – the leading risk factor for suicide. That means seven out of ten Virginia kids most at risk for suicide…
Motivated by their daughters’ struggles with clinical depression, Tom and Diana Leahy founded Beacon Tree in 2008. “Our goal is to help families overcome the hurdles and find a path…
When my son Charles was nine, I found a collection of candy wrappers under his bed and I cried. Substance use disorder ran on both sides of the family, and…
