Understand Suicide

The first time Bill Clemo realized that he needed to look into his mental health was right after he started college. At the time, he thought that his sleep deprivation was temporary, so were the mood ...

1 Touko 202128min

Joanna has a history of painful losses, including her brother and two successive suicides of both her mother and father. In this interview, she talks about how each member of her family grieved these ...

16 Huhti 202154min

Jess Fritz had her first mental health diagnosis at the age of twelve, after being sexually abused. Since then, the labels that have been attached to her identity include bipolar affective disorder, b...

1 Huhti 202131min

Jim Miller was 22 years old when his father took his life, in 1992, and this is the first time he shares his story publicly. At the time, he was the one responsible to fly to Spain in order to have hi...

21 Maalis 202136min

Katrina Cable was 14 years old when her mother died by suicide, but her story goes beyond the pain caused by this kind of loss. At a young age, she had to deal with the death of her father, grandmothe...

11 Maalis 202132min

This episode is a continuation of the previous one, so if you didn’t listen to it, please do. Mequell’s husband, Adam Buck talks about his side of their story: how he coped with her suicide attempt an...

13 Helmi 202140min

Before her suicide attempt, Mequell Buck had always been a high achiever. Like so many other women, she juggled work, taking care of her kids, and being a wife, all of it trying to maintain the highes...

5 Helmi 202143min

This has been one of the most inspirational stories I’ve come across since I started this podcast. For the first time, I invited two guests to participate: Shari and Jann Simmons. I listened to them a...

23 Tammi 202150min