Suicide: Talking About Attempts

The nation’s oldest suicide prevention organization, the American Association of Suicidology, decided in a vote by its board last week to recognize a vast but historically invisible portion of its membership: people, who tried to kill themselves but survived. About a million American adults a year make a failed attempt at suicide, surveys suggest, far outnumbering the 38,000 who succeed, and in the past few years, scores of them have come together on social media and in other forums to demand a bigger voice in prevention efforts.

See NY Times Article, April 14, 2014:  "Suicide Prevention Sheds a Longstanding Taboo: Talking About Attempts"

This is a helpful and informative article which discusses attempts to give voice to the many suicide-attempt survivors.