Despite years of national strategies to address the suicide crisis in the U.S., rates continue to rise.
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting '988.'When Pooja Mehta's younger brother, Raj, died by suicide at 19 in March 2020, she felt 'blindsided.'Raj's last text message was to his college lab partner about how to divide homework questions.
Further hobbling the strategies is the fact that federal and local funding ebbs and flows and some suicide prevention efforts don't work in some states and localities because of the challenging geography, said Jane Pearson, special adviser on suicide research to the NIMH director.Wyoming, where a few hundred thousand residents are spread across sprawling, rugged landscape, consistently ranks among the states with the highest suicide rates.
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