The person most likely to save your life from suicide is someone you already know. Sometimes it may be a family member or a supervisor. Often its a peer.
Nothing kills momentum faster than a shiny new “mental health initiative” that feels like it was written by a committee of robots. Real people want real buy-in, real responsiveness, and real results.
Construction is teaching us to flip the script: don’t just expect leaders to hold everyone else — build systems that hold them. That’s how culture change sticks.
Losing a client to suicide can be devastating personally to a therapist, but professionally, there also can be many unforeseen consequences. The emotional toll is often compounded by systemic issues within the mental health field that can transform a tragic event into a potentially career-ending one.
