Suicide Deaths Hurts ALL

The suicide of Pastor Rick Warren’s son and daughter of Dr. Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is going to help change churches’ perceptions towards people with mental health issues.  Pastor Rick made a promise to help remove the stigma associated with mental illness in the church. Dr. Frank Page wrote a book Melissa: A Father's Lesson's from a Daughter's Suicide, which also address the mental health stigma.  

Inward Core is excited to hear that churches are becoming more involved with helping remove stigmas related to mental illness. Studies have shown that suicide kills more people in the United States every year than manslaughter, hypertension or motor vehicle crashes; it is time for all organizations to pay more attention to mental health illness. Psychologists, licensed professional counselors, or licensed clinical social workers need to be in the schools, churches, medical hospitals, and work places. Trained professionals need to be inserted who understand how to deal with mental health illnesses, the same way trained professionals are in place to deal with physical illnesses. The government also needs to reopen state mental health facilities, because the numbers of mental illnesses have increased drastically.

There is a lot to be done in order to address this great need, nevertheless Inward Core encourage all to gain mental health assessments to determine if you have any form of mental health illness. The sooner you are able to address it the better you will be able to manage it. It’s time to support and help each other in this area instead of ignoring and inserting judgment.

Nancia Leath, MA LPC – CEO/Inward Core Healthcare, Mental Health Therapist