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Before we start this episode, in which I have a conversation with Jagger Akerman, a fourth

year medical student, I wanted to talk a little bit about what we are going to talk about

and the importance of this topic.

We are in a month of suicide awareness right now, and in my own life, there was a local

church pastor, mega church pastor, and he was an assistant pastor to this, to harvest.

And he committed suicide recently.

And so on social media, I don't know if you were aware, but there are people coming out

and having opinions about, you know, why did they allow a pastor who had mental illness

to be a pastor?

And in my mind, a lot of the words that were coming out about this are very stigmatizing

to mental illness and to the struggle that people face.

And so suicide is something that, you know, I see frequently, I see in the patients that

come in who have had family members who have committed suicide, I see my patients themselves

struggle with suicidal thoughts or they come to see me after they've had a significant

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