118: Attempting Suicide with Monique Hebert

The Teen Life Coach

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4.6 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week Monique Hebert joins me on the podcast to talk about her experience as a teen and young adult struggling with anxiety and depression. Monique is featured in the documentary Tell My Story which is about teen suicide and mental health. Below are some very important resources for teens needing help and also a link to view the documentary. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 800-273-8255 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Crisis Text Line https://www.crisistextline.org/ Youth Line- for teens ages 11-21 https://oregonyouthline.org/about/ The Trevor Project- for LGBTQ+ youth https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ To view the documentary: https://www.chooselife.org/film

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking about teen suicide with Monique Hebert.
0:14.8	Hi you guys. Welcome to the podcast this week. I have a special guest today. I actually saw her in a documentary that I was
0:24.6	watching about suicide. And so I wanted to have her on the podcast today to talk to you guys about
0:31.3	her experience with teen suicide and how she's been a survivor of teen suicide and her own unique experience with the challenges
0:39.7	of navigating mental health as a teen. And our teen suicide race are increasing drastically right now.
0:47.2	So Monique, I know that's a long introduction. Welcome to the podcast. I'm so happy you're here.
0:55.2	And why don't you just go ahead and introduce yourself?
0:58.0	And you can tell the listeners what you want them to know about you.
1:02.2	Well, thank you, Sammy.
1:03.6	I'm really happy to be here today on this podcast.
1:06.1	My name is Monique and I currently live in Washington, but I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio.
1:11.9	I'm currently a grad student at Arizona State University.
1:15.6	I'm also a writer and educator and a mental health advocate.
1:20.0	And I think my mental health advocacy comes from the struggles I've had with my own mental health,
1:25.5	especially as a teen and young adults in college.
1:29.3	I struggled a lot with anxiety and depression, which is what I talk about and my suicide
1:35.0	attempt in college in the tell by story documentary with Jason Reed.
1:40.5	So yeah, I'm just really happy to be here today to be able to talk to teens about maybe recognizing some of the symptoms of mental health and the struggles that they have.
1:49.0	When you say you're a mental health advocate, you go around and you speak to students about mental health, correct?
1:56.1	Yes.
1:56.6	Okay. And so do you travel around? Like, what does that look like being a mental health advocate?
2:02.7	Yeah. So I've been basically going around the Seattle areas. And I've talked at middle schools, high schools, a different kind of church events, like the youth groups and things like that. And I work with the National Alliance of Middle Illness. And so in those presentations, we would talk about some of the symptoms of mental health conditions and things to look out for and also give them some resources of places they can go to reach out for help.
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