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Sisters for Sisters Fundraising: On depression and suicide prevention among men

Posted on August 24, 2014 by in Community, Depression, Healing Art, Mental health Care, Mental Illness, Storytelling, Suicide, suicide prevention, Video

I was invited to speak at the gorgeous Sisters For Sisters fundraising event about current news from the Australian Suicide Prevention sector, storytelling from recent conversations, fact-finding and progressive perspectives that have inspired me since the National Suicide Prevention Conference, Perth 2014. This particular episode, Brothers in Our Arms, was hosted to show support for men in […]

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The Babyfacedassassin at the National Suicide Prevention Conference

Posted on August 6, 2014 by in Community, Creative Arts, Depression, Mental health Care, mental health community service, Mental Illness, Self-Harm, Storytelling, Suicide, suicide prevention

I’ve got a new perspective on suicide. I nabbed it from the National Suicide Prevention Conference. I reckon you’ll like it too. So the reality is that for some people suicide becomes a solution. It becomes a ‘way out’, an escape and end to intolerable pain. It holds a kind of morbid promise when our dreams reduce to […]

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