Dana S DiazPeople rarely choose suicide because they “want to die.” More often, they choose it because they don’t know how to keep living with the pain they carry. Self-improvement gives them a different option; and modeling it saves lives.
Dana S DiazWith Suicide Awareness & Prevention Month focusing on tragedy and Self-Improvement Month encouraging transformation, this is a prime time to reconsider how to better cope with life's struggles—and, by extension, save others from life's despair.
Dana S DiazSelf-improvement effectively demonstrates to others that they, too, can choose to live a better life. Given the prevalence of anxiety and depression and their contribution to suicide, self-improvement thereby serves to save lives.
Dana S DiazSeptember is Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month, Self-Improvement Month, and also the the first anniversary of my second book, CHOKING ON SHAME—a story I never thought I'd live to tell because I wasn't sure I wanted to.
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