Good evening, everybody. How you all doing? I hope you're getting through the week. Looking after

yourselves. Um, you know, again, looking at some of the research coming out of this current time and

this past decade, suicide rates have gone up really powerfully and even more so during COVID.

It's understandable. People are isolated and all alone. They don't necessarily feel cared for.

They don't have access cared for. They don't

have access to their resources, the support that they normally have, the distractions, the buffers,

maybe their chosen coping mechanisms. Divorce rate is up, right? Mental health issues are up. It's

understandable. That's part of, you know, what this is about right now. And that's what's really

hard and difficult. So always reminding people that if you need extra care and support there's so many different

resources reach out consider possibly getting a therapist for some added support really connect

to those around you just a loving reminder three people every single day and if you don't have

three people in your life that you can connect to uh start trying to build that there that. There are different apps where you can, you know, again, these apps for dating and sex,

some of them are really targeted also towards networking and socialization.

And that does happen.

So think of people that you've always wanted to be closer to, people that you wanted to reconnect

with and three people a day.

You can text them, call them, FaceTime them, send them memes,

reach out on social media, but three times a day at least connect to people to remind you that

there's people and, uh, you know, those that are listening, reach out to people. You know,

someone that you haven't heard from in a while, someone who maybe is a little disconnected. It means a

lot and it really helps improve mental health and also decrease some suicidality if you know that someone's

thinking about you and someone cares. So reach out letting people know that you are and that you do.

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