SelfWork YGTG: Is Meghan Markle's Experience Unique?
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Today's YGTG, or "You Get the Gist," deals not with who's right and who's wrong in the ongoing drama between Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Great Britain's royals. Nor about the very serious allegations of racism. As a psychologist, what I'm concerned about is how this focus on talking about suicidal thinking is affecting those whose loved ones have already died by suicide, and how this could affect the way those words are recognized in the future by anyone who actually hears them. For every suicide “success” as it’s ironically labeled, The American Foundation of Suicide Prevention reports there are 25 attempts.
We'll discuss common but painful reactions from families. And we need to realize that everyone who kills themselves has thought about it before. Maybe even shared their thoughts with someone. It's so important to listen, and try to help.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to self-works YGTG or you get the gist. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford and I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:15.2 | By the time you listen to this, it will be a couple of weeks since Meghan Markle and |
| 0:18.5 | Prince Harry appeared with Oprah for a very candid interview. |
| 0:22.9 | I can only imagine and my heart goes out to the people that watched that earlier that |
| 0:27.9 | had a loved one die by suicide. |
| 0:30.6 | Maybe they didn't know, depression was that serious, they may have tried to help, they |
| 0:35.0 | may not have known it all, they may have discounted whatever they sensed, but all of those |
| 0:40.0 | people are left with tremendous feelings of guilt, sadness, anger, helplessness. |
| 0:46.7 | Many people struggle with some kind of depression. |
| 0:49.0 | In fact, for every suicide success, as it's ironically labeled, the American Foundation |
| 0:55.3 | of Suicide Prevention says there are 25 attempts. |
| 0:59.2 | Long before the crown, those of us trained in middle-health could see Princess Diana's |
| 1:03.4 | issues or at least make an educated guess about what was going on. |
| 1:08.2 | Her absolute dedication to being thin, her very public rejection by her husband, and |
| 1:13.9 | pure adulation by the British public, and paparazzi, and paparazzi, and paparazzi. |
| 1:20.3 | Those of us who've never had that kind of attention can only imagine what that feels |
| 1:24.0 | like. |
| 1:25.0 | There's news of emotional outbursts and mood swings. |
| 1:28.1 | She may have had a previous sense of what the royal life might be more than Megan, but |
| 1:32.7 | life circumstances were working against her. |
| 1:36.0 | Over the years, I've dealt with a lot of people who try to talk about wanting to end their |
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