198 SelfWork: Debunking the Myths About Suicide
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and I want to be a part of debunking what are commonly believed myths concerning suicide. I also want to make sure you're safe. If you become triggered, here's the link to all the suicide services that are known in every country that provides them. It helps to reach out – that’s been proven over and over… so please if you need to talk or text someone, click that link.
I've chosen twelve myths that are common to hear and then give the facts. Sometime the experts disagree or issues are more complex, but it's so important to stop saying that suicide is selfish or that only people with mental illness die by suicide.
The listener email for today is from someone who couldn’t find grief on the feeling wheel that I discussed in the suck it up episode – which was really an episode on not sucking it up… She’s overwhelmed by grief and doesn’t know how to get through it…
Important links:
BetterHelp, the #1 online therapy provider, has a special offer for you now!
Article about the pandemic’s effect on suicide worldwide
Shahnaz study 2018
Dr. Kristin Fuller for The NAMI Blog
An article to help you learn and understand the warnings signs
Article on suicide by Magellan Health resource
NPR article about What’s best with teens and kids
193 SelfWork: Conversation with John Moe (The Hilarious World of Depression)
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work |
| 0:29.3 | Hello and welcome or welcome back to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. I'm a clinical |
| 0:34.6 | psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and I started self-work four years ago in order |
| 0:40.1 | to expand the walls of my practice to reach those who might already be interested |
| 0:44.3 | in therapy or psychological and emotional issues. |
| 0:47.6 | To those of you who've just been diagnosed with something you want to understand more |
| 0:51.7 | like depression or anxiety or an eating disorder or |
| 0:55.2 | PTSD or you're having a relationship problem that you'd like another perspective on perhaps. |
| 1:01.0 | But also to those of you who might never darken the door of a therapist, but are just |
| 1:05.6 | curious enough to listen in to self-work. |
| 1:10.4 | Today I'm going to talk about suicide. |
| 1:13.0 | September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, |
| 1:16.0 | and I want to debunk what are commonly believed myths concerning it. |
| 1:20.0 | So obviously, first I want to give you an international list from Wikipedia that was sent to me |
| 1:25.3 | by one of my listeners from Germany. It's a list of all the suicide services in all the countries |
| 1:31.2 | and it will be prominent in your show notes. It helps to reach out, it helps |
| 1:35.7 | to talk and that's been proven over and over. So if you need someone, please click that |
| 1:41.1 | link. I've used several different resources in my research. |
| 1:45.0 | NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness here in the United States. |
| 1:49.0 | An article by Magellan Health, which is a health management organization, and also an NPR article |
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