The Truth about Suicide

More and more Americans are taking their own lives. How the church can step up.

In 2015, more than 44,000 Americans died by suicide—one death every 12 minutes, as the Department of Health and Human Services put it. The overall suicide rate has grown by nearly 30 percent over the past 15 years, prompting some to call it a new public health crisis.

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What is it like to lose someone you love to suicide?

Counselors call this kind of grief a complicated grief or a complicated bereavement because grievers are actually dealing with two realities: grief and trauma. The grief of losing a loved one is normal and expected, but with suicide comes trauma. In processing a suicide, there is no easy path to peace and the grief journey cycles through all sorts of different feelings and emotions.

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How are we helping families and individuals at TSPCI.ORG?
Through our Arithmetai University, we’re offering one-of-a-kind effective courses and therapeutic engagements to better equip individuals contemplating suicide and families of those who have manifested a desire to commit suicide or whom have a family member at risk.

http://arithmetaiuniversity.org/understanding-the-bible-religious-philosophy.html/

The free course is designed to help the learner discover risk factors to many negative life-impacting decisions and helps them mitigate their influence through cognitive mentoring. The therapist guides the student through an examination of thinking patterns and attitudes about life and issues that the student may be experiencing within a non-threatening bible study type engagement which allows the student to explore issues of faith and reinforce their belief systems on solid truths they reason themselves.

This course has already saved lives and continues to help many confront their problem thinking head-on. For many, it is not easy to confront yourself and challenge oneself to correct thought patterns – but t is a release of stress to finally know that you have a verified course of action toward positive outcomes no matter what be the situation.

Join the many who live on today having overcome their darkest hours with light!