If you were to hear today that someone had died by suicide, what do you think your response might be?

Whether we’re conscious of it or not, there’s a stigma attached to mental health distress and thoughts of suicide. And this stigma is preventing people from seeking help.

There’s still a perception that suicide is something that impacts other people, yet about a third of Australians know someone who has died by suicide, or attempted suicide, in the past 12 months.

Suicide is part of the human condition. It’s a natural human response to overwhelming suffering.

Any one of our us, our family, our friends, our co-workers or neighbours, could find ourselves spiralling into suicidal distress, faced with more adversity than we can bear.

So the words we use when we talk about suicide are huge

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