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Suicide survivors urge open conversations, awareness around mental health

Original post made on Nov 17, 2016

Five women whose lives have been intimately, irreversibly touched by youth suicide -- two by their own attempts and three by deaths of family members -- spoke candidly about their experiences on a panel in Palo Alto Wednesday night, urging others to speak with the same candor about the oft-silenced topics of suicide and mental illness.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, November 17, 2016, 10:35 AM

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Posted by Harold A. Maio
a resident of another community
on Nov 17, 2016 at 2:09 pm

“I hid it very well, probably because of stigma and shame” is an incomplete thought.

“I hid it very well, probably because of stigma and shame I had been trained to experience” is a complete thought.

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