Suicide Awareness: A Mother's Warning

STOP SWEEPING SUICIDE UNDER THE RUG AND START BLASTING IT OUT OF THE CLOSET. One day our too-good-to-be-true handsome intelligent athletic pre-med college senior killed himself. I was the devastatingly horrified mom who found him dead. While screaming my agony in a personal journal I read every book about mental disorders that I could find. I was seeking WHY and was so crazed that I tried to bring him back to life with all of my daily WHAT-IF-ING. The shocking narrative will jolt readers into seeing how easily missed the risks and symptoms of depression and anxiety can be. Open conversation about mental illness and particularly SUICIDE can save lives if you see or hear inner emotional suffering. In our sons loving letter of goodbye he said he no longer felt he had direction and purpose. Why hadnt we seen or heard this? My purpose now warns readers to fully communicate about mental illness with each child school family and community. If we all do this we can open up the shame of suicide and help our secretive children from descending into the death spiral of misperception helplessness and hopelessness. In honor of our son Mike I wish to fulfill his personal unseen purpose in life. We ask you to read to learn; question and listen intently; connect with a professional health consultant and help eradicate death by suicide.