Beyond the Crisis: Understanding the Story Before Suicide
As World Suicide Prevention Day approaches, much of the conversation rightly focuses on mental health, recognising the warning signs and encouraging people to seek help.
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Suicide Awareness Month: Every Story Begins Long Before the Ending
But after years of investigating coercive control, safeguarding failures, mental health, suicide, elder financial abuse and institutional behaviour, I’ve become increasingly uncomfortable with how much of the responsibility for suicide prevention we place upon the person who is already struggling to survive.
The Smear Campaign: Part 2 – When the Crowd Does the Work
People often imagine smear campaigns as something organised. Today, all it can take is one carefully chosen photograph. A post asking an innocent-looking question.
The Presumption Problem
Every time a tragedy happens, we ask the same question. What assumptions did we make along the way?.
When Suicide Isn’t the Beginning of the Story
Every suicide leaves behind one question: Sadly, that question is often answered far too quickly.
A police officer investigates an incident. A judge determines the issues placed before the court. Yet the overall picture may still be incomplete.
When Coercive Control Kills
For years, coercive control has been treated as a niche issue. A form of domestic abuse that sits somewhere below physical violence.