Secrets
No More
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Trigger
Warning
The content
displayed on this web page may be sensitive to some
viewers. Viewing is not advised if you may become
easily triggered.
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If you think you might be triggered
and need support, click
here before you start the
first video and copy down the phone numbers, chat lines or
text message numbers that you would feel most comfortable
contacting. Remember, suicide is preventable. It is not
chosen. It is momentary. It happens when pain exceeds
resources for coping with pain. You're not a bad, o crazy,
or weak, or flawed person if you feel suicidal. It doesn't
mean that you really want to die. Know that contacting
someone isn't a sign of weakness. It shows real strength to
ask for help.
Share Your Story of
Hope
Stories unite those touched by suicide
– and offer hope to others. Do your part to create
change: share your family’s story of struggle and
healing.
 Secrets
No More is a process that one or more people can do
together and, if a group, can be an ongoing time to gather
in a private place to answer the question
"R U OK?" and take an opportunity to talk about
what's going on in your life, difficulties, triumphs, ask
for help, offer to help someone else.
A
place to start is to print out this Survey
Form.
When
you can commit a minimum of a half an hour up to as much as
three and a half hours, at your earliest convenience, that
could possibly save a friends life, follow this
process.
Find a place where you won't
be interrupted by others, the phone, text messages, etc.
Preferably a quiet place.
Take a few moments to breathe and
relax before you start.
Get a stop watch.
Have a box of facial tissues
handy.
The
Process
Have you every seriously
considered suicide? Have you ever actually attempted
suicide? Have you lost someone important to you to
suicide? Do you know someone who has attempted suicide?
Can you think of anyone you know who might be considering
suicide? Note on the Survey
Form the feelings as they
come up.
Each video is approximately five
minutes long.
Start the stop watch when you start
the first video.
Automatically click on the next
video and continue the process.
Look at each person's face
and read as much of the information about the person
as you can.
Note on the survey form the time
on the stop watch:
When you first teared
When you first
whimpered
When you first cried out
loud
When you first
wailed
When you were moved to find
out what you can do to help achieve Zero
Suicide
Record the time when you
stopped watching. Close your eyes and take some
time to feel what's going on for you. Journal any
particular feeling, memories, thoughts, as they
come up.
If you didn't complete the
series of videos and choose to continue after a
break, start the stop watch and continue recording
your process.
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Post
Survey Process
We ask that you send a copy
of your completed survey, with your age, gender, age that
you may have seriously considered suicide, age if you
actually attempted and by what means,
I would like to hear to your story.
If you include your name and contact information, known
that I am the only person who will ever see
it.
Send the survey to Gordon Clay via
email at gordonclay@aol.com
or snail mail at PO Box 12, Brookings, OR 97415
National
Strategy for Suicide Prevention 2012: How You Can Play a
Role in Preventing Suicide
2012
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and
Objectives for Action
(184 page pdf)
How
You Can Play a Role in Preventing
Suicide (3 page
pdf]
Related
Issues: Zero
Suicide,
Suicide,
Teen
Suicide,
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