Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts

by James N. Watkins

Posted: July 29, 2020

Hope and help as the pandemic adds to a worsening trend…

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The National Center for Health Statistics recently reported that the suicide rate across the U.S. increased 35% between 1999 and 2018, the last year with complete statistics. And now, during the global pandemic, mental health professional fear a spike as medical and economic stress increases to breaking point. Here’s hope and help:

Each year, more than 800,000 people worldwide die by suicide and 25 times that number attempt to take their own lives. (I, too, have had thoughts of suicide as I struggle with clinical depression.)

[In 2017, "intentional self harm" (suicide) claimed 47,172 American lives, making it number 10 in the top causes for death in the United States. See editor Stu Johnson's article "About Those Numbers."]

Here are some posts I trust are hopeful and helpful if you or a loved one are dealing with suicidal thoughts.

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Jim Watkins is a humorist, author, and speaker who says of himself that he "loves God, his family, writing, speaking and Chinese food—in that order"

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