Preventing Suicide in the Granite State

By Laura Knoy on Friday, October 16, 2009.
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Last month the federal government gave over a million dollars to boost suicide prevention at a time when these deaths are increasing. We’ll look at what New Hampshire is doing to reverse this rise - and to help surviving family members.

Guests

  • Michael Whitman, member of the New Hampshire Youth Suicide Prevention Association who lost his son to suicide
  • Ken Norton, special projects director for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

We'll also hear from

  • Roger Wells, Republican state representative from Hampstead who lost his wife and daughter to suicide and who is one of the driving forces behind the New Hampshire Suicide Prevention Council
  • Major Mike Moranti, Suicide Prevention Program Manager at the New Hampshire Army National Guard
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karen Dean - Fri, 10/16/2009 - 09:30

Just this week, a friend of mine in NH just threatened her husband to have him arrested if he didn't go to the doctor because he is suicidal and had a plan. He went to the Dr. and the intern told him he was fine! The spouse wasn't with him at the dr's office but I suggested to my friend to call the internist and explain what is happening.

Is this internist educated on suicide engough?

NH National Guard Suicide Prevention Training
Jeanne Pounder - Fri, 10/16/2009 - 09:36

Please ask Mike Moranti to talk about the OUTSTANDING DVD group training program - it emphasizes how you can't be subtle in trying to keep someone from committing suicide. You have to be direct.

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beth aaron - Fri, 10/16/2009 - 16:01

In my view, our society should delve into our "value" system as a whole.
We take the most sacred of all things in life, the placenta, the very lifeline that nourishes the fetus, and poison it.
We could solve many of the burdens our species places on itself that have been causing suffering for centuries, if we had a sense of place on earth, including feeding our fetus's optimal nourishment from organic plant foods which would provide proper cellular development instead of mutating development largely due to malnutrition.
Our obese society has an ideology that humans are top of the food chain. This obesity of mind manifests as obesity of body. If we want a healthy society , not filled with prison populations and hospitals filled with all ages suffering from diseases of the mind and body, we need to challenge ourselves to re-think how we nurture our young, beginning with what goes through the placenta.
Anyone studying "ortho-molecular science," (Barbara Reed Stitt-Food and Behavior)the science of nutrient affects on cells, understands that much of the brain and other organ problems are due to improper nutrients, combined with cultural accepted violence to animals, which confuses children and makes them depressed.
we refuse to see ourselves as a society, a species,as we really are.....Living in unnatural and disordered harmony with all other nature and living beings around us.
We feed kids to have all the maladies they exhibit, and wonder why we have the problems we do!

It's almost as if our heads are disconnected from the reality of what is right in front of us....

As an ex-heroin addict, I now understand why it is so easy for kids to want to numb themselves from the reality adults have created.

We need proper nutrition and HUMANE EDUCATION.
We need to LOOK at the many problems manifest in our culture in a holistic way, not single issues....

There are many ways to commit suicide. Food, smoking, drinking, drugs, sexual promiscuity....all can be used to slowly poison ourselves.
What are we doing to children before and after birth, that is making them feel sick?????

Read, An Unnatural Order, Why We Are Destroying The Planet and Each Other, Jim Mason.