Mental Health Update

James Dungy's suicide has got a lot of people thinking.

From what I’ve read in the school’s paper on Monday is that he had been suffering from depression (I don’t think I had heard that until then). You know what that means? His death could have been prevented. Not necessarily easily, mind you, but a little bit effort by the people around him could have saved him. Whether or not his friends (I don’t know if he had family in the area, but even if he did and he’s like any other 18+ year old, he probably didn’t see them too often) and the people around him noticed it may not be fully known. Let’s face it, if any of us had known a friend of ours had been suffering from depression and we didn’t try and step in and they killed themselves, would we come out and say “Yeah, I could have done something but I didn’t”? Probably not, right?

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