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Please watch this BBC News item on Tuesday 9th October featuring 2 Gambling with Lives families. It is a very powerful piece by Amol Rajan BBC which explores the reality behind the gambling industry's claims to "social responsibility".
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Today is World Suicide Prevention Day.
It is also 3 years, 3 months, and 16 days since Dan took his own life.
For us, the loss of Dan means the loss of a son and brother. The loss of a future, for Dan and for all of us.
Every life lost to suicide is a tragedy. EVERY death is preventable. Zero deaths by suicide is something we must aspire to achieve in Sheffield, the UK, and all over the world.
This year's theme for WSPD is Working Together To Prevent Suicide.
This principle underwrites our new online course: WISETALKERS: Helping You Help Others.
stormsdmc.org/wisetalkers/
30 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME TO BENEFIT YOU AND THOSE AROUND YOU. Drawing on validated approaches this brief, practical training will allow you to understand more about these interactions and develop your existing skills, helping these conversations go better in all parts of your life- family, social, work. Included are links to more information and where to find help if needed. It works with all age groups, and in all settings; schools, workplaces etc.
Many of the actions and practices the course covers may seem to be common sense- but we ask that you think really critically about yourself and the way you interact in difficult conversations. The small changes WISETALKERS highlights really can be life-saving.
Let's be clear; this course will not make you a psychologist, or mental health expert. It will simply remind you of the importance of a kind, non-judgemental, supportive approach. You may never know whether your apparently minor, insignificant support changed the course of someone’s life for the better. Just do it.
There is no denying that these conversations can be hard. Asking someone if they are thinking about taking their own life is scary. You might worry about what to do if they say they are. There is even a myth that if you ask someone about suicide, they are more likely to take their own life. What is certain though, is that as a society we are not used to these kinds of interactions. Despite the fact that we are getting better at talking about mental ill health, suicide remains a distinctly taboo subject.
But, we hope that our WISETALKERS course will help to make these conversations easier. For Dan, we believe that just one interaction, which left him feeling heard and gave him hope in himself and his future, could have saved his life.
Dan, we miss you. We will continue to push for these changes in honour of you.
This is all for you.
If you wish to find out more about Wisetalkers, please contact us via this page or by email: enquiries@stormsdmc.org
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