His family are reported to be heartbroken, understandably. Charlie Haddon’s dramatic death is distressing and tragic.
I am a little (but obviously not completely) lost for words, suicide is a complex issue and I stand more for suicide understanding than suicide prevention. It all makes me sad. I don’t know how in the world to make a difference, although I think about suicide in terms of cause and effect a lot. To draw a simple casual link for a complex social problem isn’t possible. There is not one or even a few things to do differently.
I think we are all a little more depressed than we ought to be and we’re all suicidal in degrees. What helps? After almost a year of blogging I can only think of;
– Heart – talking, caring, sharing, empathising
– Hand – holding hands and being there in simple and undemanding way
– Hope – if hope and resilience can be learned by rats we might learn it too
My emerging view is that rather than curing any one depressed person we need to support and accept what sits within ourselves, before anything starts to change it seems important to sit with what is. I don’t have the words yet and I do know that I’m slowly getting closer. A year is hardly any time at all.