One significant but simple truth is that Suicide is a global killer, and as such is a potential threat and danger to every individual and family upon our planet. Despite this, we appear determined to ignore the very existence of one of our own biggest killers.

It seems that rather than face the shocking truth that suicide is a very real threat to each and every one of us we prefer to believe that by ignoring It - It will go away.  It won't !!! ... and it's madness to believe that it will.  Has our entire species gone into denial.

This 'bury our heads in the sand' approach is much worse than a nonsense.

Nonsenses don't normally kill people on such a vast scale -  normally.

But our ostrich-like avoidance of any unacceptable truth is typical of our confusion, ignorance and fear surrounding issues such as self-harm and suicide.

The problem could be that Suicide does not share the same high visibility profile as other global killers such as AIDS, Heart Disease and Cancer.  Their high visibility profiles serve to orchestrate positive global action against the conditions concerned.

Suicide does not.

In this respect, suicide truly stands alone.  

However, it is vital that we all understand that...

• Each of our deaths by suicide is preventable.
• We are 'curable' which is to say that we can, and do recover from a suicidal crisis.
• Depression (the main cause of suicide) is itself 'treatable' and we can, and do recover from depression.