Lived experience perspectives

Why it’s important to talk about suicide

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Three people with lived experience of suicide explain, among other things, that talking about suicide does not result in more suicides – in fact, it does quite the opposite.

Insensitive language can undermine people who care

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Katie Clarke and Kate Sibthorp are parent/family carers for Nadia and Maddy. They describe the importance of the language care professionals use, and the how devastating it can be when they get it wrong.