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Suicide Attempt Survivors \u2013 Out of the Shadows\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

by David Tereshchuk<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry. I just can\u2019t. If I appear in public and say honestly what happened with me – who knows what the fall-out may be<\/em>.\u201d Such has been the anxious response I\u2019ve gotten so many times when, as a journalist working largely in TV, I\u2019ve requested an on-camera interview.<\/p>\n

We all know the media clich\u00e9 that can follow. Someone has something to tell \u2013 but it\u2019s evidently too shameful, or could cause recriminations. So we see them speak back-to-camera, or as a carefully-lighted silhouette \u2013 with maybe their voice distorted too. These are the well-tried measures for maintaining anonymity in the media.<\/p>\n

Although our supposedly advanced society has abandoned many outworn taboos, we still cling to this hugger-mugger practice in the mass-media style-book \u2013 which in itself can be a signal of shame. And we habitually apply it to a broad range of confessional interviewees. Understandably, perhaps, we bring it out for convicted felons, sex-offenders, torturers, and more.<\/p>\n

But disturbingly, to my mind, candidates for this shadowy treatment have included, whether we think it\u2019s fair or not, people who have tried to kill themselves.<\/p>\n

Think of the last time you saw someone who survived a suicide attempt talking about it on TV. If you recall one at all, was their face visible? Their real name used? Probably not.<\/p>\n

But some of those self-same survivors of suicide attempts are now banding together to break out of this stigmatized category. \u00a0\u201cWhen a story of a suicide attempt has a face and a full name, the person has had plenty of reason to fear the public disclosure<\/em>,\u201d says Dese\u2019Rae Stage<\/strong>, who has emerged as something of a spokesperson for suicide-attempters. \u201cWe\u2019re repeatedly called cowardly, selfish, weak<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This movement\u2019s members are people who have tried to end their own lives, and for a variety of reasons \u2013 a merciful change-of-heart at the last minute \u2026 intervention by other people or by happenstance \u2026 some \u2018failure\u2019 in the chosen means: rope, gun, pills or exhaust-pipe \u2013 they have ended up surviving. And they now most decidedly do want the rest of us to know about it.<\/p>\n

They see their step into the public domain partly as an aid in their own recovery – countering shame or guilt – and partly as help for other people who might be contemplating suicide. Potential suicides, it\u2019s hoped, can be deflected from their deadly course by learning that others have also been in that same dark and hopeless place \u2026 but can and do escape it — and NOT by dying.<\/p>\n

The first step, though, is to come out of the shadows.<\/p>\n

Stage is a professional photographer who studied psychology at college, and her most visible contribution to the attempters\u2019 movement is an online community called \u201cLive Through This<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

For the website she has collected individual stories in depth \u2013 so far she has amassed nearly two hundred, spread across 36 American cities. Attempt-survivors record a full audio account in their own words describing their mental progression toward suicidal thoughts, their actual attempt, how they came to avoid death, and how they have kept on surviving since.<\/p>\n

To the transcribed stories, Stage adds compelling visual portraits of each attempt survivor, whom she photographs as part of the same lengthy recording session. Each account makes for tough reading, heartbreaking but rewarding – and all the images, faces looking directly and candidly into the lens, are powerfully engaging.<\/p>\n

Altogether I can avow (as a reporter on social and ethical issues, but also as a media critic) that they amount to some of the deepest and most affecting depictions I\u2019ve ever encountered of profound human despair, and of climbing out of that despair.<\/p>\n

Here is one example: Leah Harris<\/strong>, a single mother who survived repeated attempts as a younger woman. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn having my story published at LiveThroughThis<\/a><\/em>\u201d, Harris told me, \u201cthe loss of privacy is entirely worth the benefit. The connection with others who have a shared experience gets me out of isolation, helps combat the negative siren-song of suicidal thoughts<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The LiveThroughThis<\/em> stories have elicited worldwide responses from suicidal people, according to its founder, Stage. She says there\u2019s one very common reaction: \u201cI\u2019m not able to take part, though I\u2019d like to – but it\u2019s already good to know I\u2019m not alone.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it operates on several levels<\/em>,\u201d Stage adds, \u201cI\u2019ve also had emails from loss-survivors saying \u2018I wish the person I lost had been able to see this\u2019\u2026 or \u2026 \u2018I lost somebody and I just didn\u2019t understand what they were going through. Now I think I do\u2019<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In its 8 years of operation, LiveThroughThis<\/em> and other like-minded self-help groups have gradually been having quite an effect in the field of suicide prevention. The American Association of Suicidology<\/strong> now has a division of its membership entirely made up of suicide attempt survivors – as well as its existing divisions for clinicians, researchers, suicide-prevention workers, loss-survivors, and crisis-center operatives.<\/p>\n

Professionals dealing with suicide are on the whole positive about the development.<\/p>\n

Dr Jon Stevens,<\/strong> a psychiatrist at Houston\u2019s Menninger Clinic<\/strong> said: \u201cIt\u2019s fascinating and moving \u2013 it\u2019s the first time in my psychiatric career I\u2019ve seen a patient self-help group arise from the ground up, though it\u2019s clearly proven its value in movements for HIV\/AIDS, autism, and heart-disease patients<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

When I asked if he had any reservations about non-professionals going public with such detailed case-histories, Stevens (like others in the field, family members as well as doctors, and some attempters themselves) counseled serious caution about one recurring element in suicide stories. \u201cIt really can do no good at all\u201d, <\/em>said Stevens, \u201cfor people already disposed toward killing themselves to be treated to a lengthy discussion dwelling on exactly how it was done, where it was done, and such like<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

All of the LiveThroughThis<\/em> profiles, it should be said, do tread very carefully in this territory.<\/p>\n

Indeed the web-cameos, while extraordinarily intimate, are careful to avoid over-dramatization – in large part, of course, by presenting their transcribed stories as reading material, and not using video, with its innate voyeuristic tendencies. And consequently they\u2019re providing an instructive exemplar for us in the mass media \u2013 where the lurid and sensational has tended to predominate in suicide case reports.<\/p>\n

Among old journalistic habits that need to change are an almost inevitable concentration on the drama \u2026 some simplistic digging for \u2018the reason why\u2019 \u2026 and that all-too-familiar (and possibly copycat-encouraging) fascination that so perturbs Stevens and others \u2013 the morbid fascination with precise details about the means a suicide attempter has chosen to use.<\/p>\n

But overall, one wish and hope emerges clearly from paying attention to the participants in LiveThroughThis<\/em>. We as a society could certainly change our judgmental attitudes toward those driven to try suicide.<\/p>\n

Online Resources for the Suicidal (and\/or their friends and family):<\/strong><\/p>\n

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

American Association of Suicidology<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Suicide Awareness Voices for Education<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BY PHONE: You can reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline<\/a> at 800-273-8255<\/a>, the Veterans Crisis Line<\/a> at 800-273-8255<\/a> and pressing\u00a0Option 1, the Trans Lifeline<\/a> at 877-565-8860<\/a> (U.S.) or 877-330-6366<\/a> (Canada), or The Trevor Project<\/a> at 866-488-7386<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t like talking on the phone, you can reach the Crisis Text Line<\/a> by texting HOME to 741-741<\/strong>, or check out the Lifeline Crisis Chat<\/a>. If you\u2019d like to talk to a peer, WarmLine.org<\/a> contains links to \u201cWarmLines\u201d in every state. If you\u2019re not in the U.S., click here<\/a> for a link to crisis centers around the world.<\/p>\n

David Tereshchuk<\/strong>\u00a0has reported on ethics and belief for PBS\u2019s Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly and The PBS NewsHour Weekend. He writes the international multimedia commentary on\u00a0TheMediaBeat.US<\/a>\u00a0which also appears on\u00a0Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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