September is Suicide Awareness Month. Besides spreading awareness on the ever-rising stigma of mental health and suicide, September (and all months) is a time to support those who have struggled themselves, those who have been directly and indirectly affected, those who have survived suicide and those who have been affected by suicide loss. There are roughly 43.8 million people who struggle annually. In 2020, it was estimated that roughly 45,000 people took their own life, unfortunately there is not even a number to recognize how many individuals try to attempt to take their own life annually. Any type of adverse effects on individuals whether they have suffered themselves, attempted themselves or have lived through a loss, in no compacity is less than any other. As individuals, we must support everybody who has been affected in any means. 

As a suicide loss survivor, I can firsthand say, once you lose someone…