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Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Suicide Is a Public Health Issue

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Arts, Society & Culture, Business, Performing Arts

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Trigger warning: This episode is about suicide and suicide prevention. While the pandemic has made mental health a part of the national conversation, policy makers and the public still tend to think of suicide as a matter of intervention at the point of crisis. Stephanie Wittels is on to explain why that is not the case. The second season of her podcast, “Last Day,” explores individual stories as a way of illustrating that true suicide prevention isn’t about intervening when someone’s life is at risk, it’s about making life worth living from the start. If you feel at risk in any way, please text "START" to 741-741 or call 1-800-273-TALK (8255). As we point out in the episode: If you’re thinking of reaching out but asking yourself if your situation is “bad enough” to deserve help, that means you definitely deserve help. We all do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Annamarie Cox.

0:06.5

Welcome to With Friends Like These.

0:09.0

Before we begin the show, I have some housekeeping.

0:11.9

Now, I never thought I would see Georgia turn blue in my lifetime.

0:17.4

Though there are a lot of things happening this year that I never thought I'd see in

0:20.6

my lifetime, but at least Georgia going blue is a good surprise.

0:24.8

If you listen to Crooked Type Podcast, you may already know that Georgia's blue is

0:29.1

kind of a shallow layer, and there will be a runoff in both of its Senate races to determine

0:34.2

if we can turn that state a deep, deep, royal blue.

0:38.8

Biden winning more votes than Trump shows that John Aasoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock

0:43.1

have a shot to win as well.

0:45.8

That's why Votesave America has launched Adopt a State, Georgia Edition.

0:50.1

Sign up to adopt Georgia at VotesaveAmerica.com slash Georgia and keep an eye on your email

0:55.4

for the best ways to help organizers on the ground.

0:58.6

They flipped the state for Biden and Harris.

1:00.8

Let's help them finish it up.

1:03.2

Now for the episode.

1:05.2

I have to give you a content warning because this entire episode is about suicide, the

1:12.5

entire thing.

1:14.0

If you're not in a place where you can hear about that right now, please go listen to

1:19.4

some uplifting episodes of the show, the one about magic from a few weeks ago, or maybe

1:24.1

the interview with Derek Black when he renounced white nationalism, just for example.

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