Guest Blogs Archives - Grassroots Suicide Prevention

Grassroots Supporter Spotlight: Gillian Smith

Celia Mae Jones — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 12:20:42 +0000

Gillian Smith is a Scottish author and mental health advocate, who found her own recovery through writing about her experience with suicidal thoughts and mental illness. Gillian is a supporter of Grassroots and believes in the importance of open and honest discourse in making those around us feel comfortable in sharing their own stories.

None of us are immune from suicide

Gus — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:30:48 +0000

None of us are immune from suicide. Thoughts of taking one’s own life, sadly affects any: age, gender, class, race and monetary standing.

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Georgie’s ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:02:50 +0000

Georgie attended one of Grassroots Suicide Prevention's courses and was "blown away". She blogs about her experience of our training and what she learnt.

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Guest blog: Suicide and essential ways of preventing it

Gus — Mon, 20 May 2019 08:31:21 +0000

Suicide, a subject which many are too afraid to discuss but is sadly becoming more and more common.

Jane’s ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Thu, 09 May 2019 09:30:18 +0000

June 21st 2015 Father’s Day. A beautiful sunny day full of promise. Old friends arrive for lunch. We eat good food and drink wine.

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Kate’s ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:13:42 +0000

For me, a turning point was when I realised that the secret that I had held so buried and precious for so long, had slowly reached the place where I now both wanted and needed to acknowledge and talk about it.

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Guest Blog: Real Talk – be part of the change by The Honest Dad

Gus — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:14:38 +0000

For some reason, people think you can’t talk about suicide unless you’ve felt suicidal. Similarly, there is huge misconception (quite often) that if anyone speaks about suicide, they themselves are suicidal…

Chris’ ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:41:57 +0000

Suicide wasn’t something I’d been directly exposed to until a close friend of mine told me he’d tried to take his own life.

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Raquel’s ChangeMaker story

Gus — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:40:48 +0000

I got in touch with Grassroots about a year and a half after the loss of my sister. The idea of fundraising and helping a suicide prevention and awareness charity had been brewing in my mind

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Ben’s ChangeMaker Story

Gus — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:27:51 +0000

My background around my own experiences of suicide left me with a keen interest in the topic and desire to be able to help people who were in a similar position to me.

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