Preventing Suicide By Talking About Suicide | World Suicide Prevention Day

0:00 Hello and welcome to real men. Feel I'm your host Andy Grant. I'm an author speaker coach and Taylor please visit v&e Grant.com to learn more. Real men feel is all about reminding men that they are human and are entitled to feel and express the full range of emotions. Some of those emotions can really make you feel like shit but that never means that you are shit. If you've read any of my books seen me speak live, listen to many real men feel episodes or perhaps heard me as a guest on other shows or maybe you actually know me as a actual human being in the physical flesh.

0:41 You are aware that I don't hide the fact that I've tried to end my life on multiple times. When I was about 20 years old and following what I think is what I counted as five suicide attempts, I met a psychologist. Who said that any time I did something with the intention of ending my life. That was a suicide attempt. Now, my definition was, if I did something that put me in a hospital that was an attempt. But by this doctor's definition, I've attempted suicide. It easily doesn't, and probably hundreds of times.

1:21 September 10th is World Suicide, Prevention Day. I don't normally like to make a big thing about this day because frankly it pisses me off every fucking day should be Suicide. Prevention Day for everybody but I get that plenty of people still experience a stigma around any discussions of mental health or suicide. And I have long believed that one of the very best ways to prevent suicide is to talk about it. so, I shall Suicide prevention is a global challenge suicide ranks. Consistently among the top 20 causes of death globally across all age groups.

2:04 One in every 100 deaths. Worldwide is the result of suicide. The global suicide rate is over twice as high among men than women men account for three-quarters of deaths by suicide in many countries. And while the pathway to Suicide for each individual is unique, there are many common risk factors that have been shown to contribute to the higher suicide rate among men. These risk factors include the use of more, lethal means reduced help-seeking, harmful substance abuse. Social disconnection Conformity to some masculine norms and stressful life events such as unemployment and relationship breakdown. Now that all comes from the International Association for suicide prevention.

2:54 Another really silly sounding name of a group that I wish didn't need to exist, but but it does. So if you have been following me over the past year, you may recall that I pretty much disappeared from everything between December 20, 21 through June 20 22 I was depressed and suicidal for much of that time. One detail. I don't believe I've shared. Is that by that doctors definition, I did make an attempt. I tried to buy nembutal online. Nembutal is a drug used for lethal injection in prisons and to put animals to sleep.

3:36 I learned of it from a right to die group who lobbies for physician-assisted suicide and I found a website that claim to sell it. Now I figured it was a scam but I was desperate to do something. So I did something stupid and I placed an order. Despite the broken English on the website, despite being able to pay only via Zell to some random dude named Marcus. I did it. It was a good scam. Despite what I just said about it. They had a fake shipping company with a complete website for them, fake addresses, and Texas. That like, showed up, you could do, you could seem to verify it?

4:18 It made it. They made it seem like they were buying things in Mexico and then shipping them here. I even got fake tracking emails. Once I place my order. but when the delivery day arrived, nothing showed up, Except for more emails saying there was a snag and it wasn't too late for me to buy insurance for a few hundred dollars. More to make sure my my prescription without a prescription came through. I was much more upset by that package, not arriving than I expected. And that attempted action combined with a number of people reaching out to me, really increasing.

5:04 That's what signified the bottom for me. That's when I finally decided enough of this shit enough of believing I'm shit. The theme for World Suicide Prevention Day. This year is creating hope through action. My talking to you right now is an action. You listening is an action. You checking with a dear friend and asking? How are you really? Is an action, you could take. Working with a therapist. A coach a men's group is a positive action. You might take By the way, those are all things that I've been doing this summer.

5:55 Going through the new Warrior Adventure Training weekend. With the mankind project is a very positive action. You might take these live events for men, only have been happening again in recent weeks, all around the world. They haven't happened been, they haven't been happening since 2019 since before the pandemic. There is one coming up in Plymouth Massachusetts, the weekend. There is one coming up in Plymouth Massachusetts, the weekend of October 28th, I know this because I'll be part of the staff for that weekend and I highly recommend that weekend for any man wherever you are in the world.

6:39 I invite you to show support for those struggling with suicidal attempts or ideation and to remember loved ones who have died by Suicide. Wherever you are discovering real men. Feel Please, Subscribe, follow give a rating or review, a comment to share. Whatever the platform you are listening or watching on allows, please do the good and appropriate thing. You can also contact me at real men, feel at gmail.com. You can even directly support real men field. There's a link at the bottom of the show notes allowing you to give as little as 99 cents to help sustain this podcast and assist us in reaching more men. That link is Anchor dot f, m /, real men feel / support. Until next time, be good to yourself. And live.

7:31 And live.