September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
This day is a chance for everyone to join in promoting awareness about suicide: those impacted by a suicide attempt or loss, family and friends, schools, organizations, and community members.
This day is a chance for everyone to join in promoting awareness about suicide: those impacted by a suicide attempt or loss, family and friends, schools, organizations, and community members.
The act of suicide can be related to complex stressors, substance use, and health issues that may lead an individual to experience hopelessness and despair, or to act impulsively (CAMH, 2022). Suicide can be prevented.
If you, or someone in you know, is experiencing challenges with their mental health or having suicidal thoughts, it is important to reach out for support.
Now, more than ever, it is important to build community-wide strategies that foster and support mental health promotion and suicide prevention awareness, education, and intervention. The ongoing challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health reinforce the importance of sustaining our annual efforts for life promotion and suicide prevention in Windsor-Essex County.
Mental health is the capacity to feel, think and act in ways that enhance our ability to enjoy life, realize our own potential, deal with challenges, and contribute to society (Mental Health Commission of Canada).