Depression and Suicide Facts #9

-Awareness-

There are several "events" throughout the year that promotes Depression and Suicide Awareness

National Anxiety and Depression Awareness Week:  May 5-11 2013
You can go hear to obtain materials to help put on your own event:
http://www.freedomfromfear.org/NationalAnxietyandDepressionAwarenessWeek.en.html

National Suicide Prevention Week:  September 8-14 2013
This week goes in hand with World Suicide Awareness Day (10 September)
http://www.suicidology.org/about-aas/nspw

Semi-Colon Project
This is a newer project, originally focused on one day (April 16th) but has continued to grow where the day does not matter.

A semi-colon is used to show where a sentence could have ended, but didn't.  Individuals draw a semi-colon onto themselves to show that they, or in support of others who face depression, have thought about suicide, or in memory of someone who committed suicide.

No one is alone, be the light you want to see in the world