Hi everybody and welcome to Coaches Corner. I'm really grateful to have this

interview with Dr. Gales-Salls airing at this time. Last week here in the States we heard about two pretty

public suicides Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain and it raised a lot of

questions in people and I think triggered a lot of people too. And obviously these two people are not the only two people

to take their lives.

Suicide is a very confusing thing to understand.

In fact, I don't think that we can truly understand it. And a lot of questions

emerge like, why did anyone know, did they ask for help? Is there something that could be done?

Does it make sense when someone takes their own life,

especially when it looks so good from the outside?

Yet we never really know what's happening on the inside.

So many people suffer in silence and feel alone,

feel hopeless, feel helpless, and like there's no way to reach out and no way to escape the darkness that

they feel inside. I did a little research and this is

not to bring you down or to bring heaviness to this but just to really raise awareness

that suicide rates increased in nearly every state in the US in 2016 with rates

raising more than 30% and half of states. There's one suicide death every

11.9 minutes and one suicide attempt every 29 seconds.

These statistics remind me of how important it is to pay attention to mental health and undo the stigmas.

There's so much shame around depression, anxiety, bipolar, ADHD, any of the mental illnesses.

The people suffer in silence rather than really reach out for help.

And so that's why, like I I said I'm so grateful to have this interview

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