Category: Suicide

Before it’s too late

After losing her son to suicide, Anne Moss Rogers is on a mission to help parents and teachers spot the signs. Her new book gives them the tools

Picture Credit: Ash Daniel

Anne Moss Rogers has lived through one of the most devastating experiences a parent can endure: Her 20-year-old son Charles, who suffered from depression and addiction, died by suicide in 2015. She speaks about it eloquently – and with brutal honesty – in her memoir, “Diary of a Broken Mind,” her TED talk, at speaking engagements and on her blog. Now she’s bringing mental health awareness and suicide … Read more...

A friend posted a message online that sounds suicidal. What do you do or say?

So you see a post online. Maybe it says, “I just want to die.” Or it sounds like a goodbye note, “I love all of you and just want you to know that…..”

Or maybe it’s dripping with despair. Like one of my son’s last tweets.

my son's last tweets before his suicide

Regardless of the specific words, it’s the feeling you get when you read a certain post.

Let’s start by what you say or post

So take the ones above as examples. Here are some ways to reply by DM if you can. If not, you can post this on the … Read more...

You Learn, You Turn Podcast

Real talk about suicide prevention in young adults

You Turn is the world’s largest library of therapist-led, evidence-backed mental health and substance misuse educational and training content available, designed to meet people where they are, delivered in simple, short videos in an easy-to-use, quick-to-consume format.

Love and let go is the antidote to insanity
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A friend I met teaching online lost her son to suicide

by Julie

I can’t even imagine the heartbreak. The helplessness those left behind are feeling. The hopelessness her son felt in the final days when everything went so dark there was no turning back to find the light.

Suicide isn’t a desire to die; it’s a desire to end the pain. Too many beautiful young people have ended their lives trying to end the pain because they can’t see the light at the end of the darkness. We often wonder how they could do this with so much going for them. If only they could see themselves through our lens … Read more...

How can we intervene online when people have lost hope?

Trigger warning: Emotional content

My son Charles was 20 when he died by suicide on June 5, 2015. Always the funniest, most popular kid in school, he used drugs and alcohol as his antidote for numbing thoughts of suicide. It wasn’t until he was 17 that he was diagnosed with depression and anxiety.

After going to rehab for an addiction to heroin, my son relapsed a day later and ended up back in detox where he saw a friend and walked out. We didn’t know where he was at this point, and I didn’t see these tweets until much later. … Read more...

Cult of Pedagogy Podcast. Suicide Prevention: What Teachers Can Do

Listen to the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast on their website.

What Teachers are saying:

Excerpt

…..Anne Moss Rogers has focused her latest work on teachers, whom she sees as a vital link between troubled students and the professionals who can help them cope with suicidal thoughts. In her new book, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk, she and co-author Kimberly O’Brien give teachers the information and tools they need to help reduce suicide in young people.

“(Teachers) see millions of adolescents nationwide,” Rogers explained in our … Read more...

RFM: Help Students Grieving a Loss by Suicide

7 Important Strategies for Educators

  • August 30, 2021

In 2015, my son Charles took his own life at age twenty during an episode of major depression and withdrawal from heroin. By 2017, I had sold my business and invested myself in suicide prevention which included a focus on postvention, the period following a death by suicide. 

To better understand this kind of tragedy and its aftermath from an educator’s point of view, I interviewed several educators, including a Colorado public school teacher who had lost a student to suicide. This teacher offered a chilling account of how her students opened … Read more...

L.E.A.P. Podcast Interview

L.E.A.P.=Listen, Engage, Allow and Process your own Healing Journey

Conversation with Author, Subject Matter Expert and Speaker Anne Moss Rogers on Suicide 

Susan E. Casey, author of the book, ROCK ON: Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Grief, and founder of the L.E.A.P. podcast wants you to know that no matter how dark and hopeless the days feel, light and hope live right around the corner. Embrace your awesomeness and leap with us into light and healing.

**TRIGGER WARNING** This episode covers sensitive subject matter and is not suitable for all listeners. If this topic could … Read more...

Ten Tip Pledge for the bereaved

Bereavement is often a time of distorted thinking. We are emotional and this just helps put into perspective all that’s happening around us.

  1. I will survive even though I’m not sure how yet. Because as bad as it is now, it will never be as bad as getting the news. If I can survive that, I can survive anything.
  2. I, the grieving person, know that friends are afraid of saying the wrong thing but I’m going to understand that what others say, even if it’s not perfect, comes from a place of love. If the situation were reversed, I might
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Conversation about suicide in the 50+ age group with Wize Move Society

Video chat with several members of the Wize Move Society, based in the Netherlands, on Suicide prevention for the 50 plus. It’s a group made up of those over 50 from countries all over the world. Anyway, if you want to see our chat and learn more about the signs, what to do and more, see our conversation below.

Access the suicide prevention conversation recording with Wize Mind Society here on Facebook.

What to say to a friend who tells you they want to suicide
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First Book for Teachers on Preventing Suicide–Just in Time for 2021 Back to School

Help save lives with this essential resource on suicide prevention in schools. Publish Date: 8/24/21

NEWS- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
FROM: Publisher Jossey-Bass (a Wiley publishing brand) and Emotionally Naked LLC 
CONTACT: Anne Moss Rogers

emotionally naked a teachers guide to preventing suicide and recognizing students at risk
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; A Wiley Publishing brand
Publish Date: August 24, 2021
Paperback: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1119758300, ISBN-13: 978-1119758303
$29.95, Book Page

Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk by Anne Moss Rogers & Kimberly O’Brien, PhD, LICSW. Publishes August 24, 2021, through Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Publishing Brand, $29.95

Although real-time data for suicide risk is scant, we know ER … Read more...

Chapters 11 and 12 of the teacher’s guide to preventing suicide book

Password protected page for those who have purchased the book, Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk by Anne Moss Rogers and Kim O’Brien.

To download the pdf versions of the last two chapters (11 & 12) with clickable links to the resources mentioned in the book and printable pages of the worksheets, scripts, activities, surveys, and quizzes.

  1. Enter the password you see on page XXI of the book.
  2. Once you enter the password below, you will see a short form where you enter your first name and email address.
  3. Then the link
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Emotionally Naked book offers

Pre-Order Offer For a Limited Time:

Once it goes on sale on August 24, 2021, these offers will only be for bulk orders! We know that transitions are triggers for suicidal behavior for adolescents and young adults, so why not use these tips for parents and teachers to help ease the transition? The mindfulness activities offer ideas on how to create connection in the classroom for a foundation of student wellness

Click here to get the two Free Guides

  • 25 Mindfulness & Discovery Activities for Classrooms
  • Tips for a Better Back to School Transition: For parents and educators
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Join Team Charles

NAMI stands for National Alliance of Mental Illness and I’m on the board for the Virginia chapter. We have our annual fundraising walk on Saturday, October 9, 2021, and my NAMI Virginia Team Charles is set up. It’s in memory of my son Charles who lived with depression and addiction.

You can be anywhere in the world and “walk” with us. So join the team, or donate! If you are local, we’ll probably walk together somewhere, most likely Bryant Park.

Team Charles
Charles always reached out
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