TALKING ABOUT SUICIDE MIGHT ENCOURAGE SOMEONE TO TRY IT

“If we don’t talk about suicide then how will we know when someone’s suicidal? If we don’t educate people on the fact there’s a complete normality to these feelings, how do we experience, as a human being in distress, a recognition that it’s okay and this feeling will pass? The comfort I bring to my social media followers when I say I have felt suicidal is huge. They can think, ‘It has passed for her, it can pass for me.’ Talking about it is so important. It reassures you that there’s nothing wrong with expressing those feelings,” Emma says.