NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION
Dear Friend's,
There are many ways that we can contribute to suicide prevention,afterall, Suicide Is Preventable.sm
In the event you are now or have been in the past been suicidal,please don't hurt yourself or attempt to kill yourself or others.It is also important to understand that suicidal ideas are merely symptoms like a fever is to an infection.
There are underlying reasons for these symtoms and they can be succesfully treated much like antibiotics for infections.There are some specialized counseling and psychotherapies that research has shown can reduce the symptoms of depression and suicide.
I will endeavor to listen and attempt to understand your special situation and thereafter based upon my extensive experience over the course of time, I will either recomend a placement with one of our licenced mental health professionals for counseling and/or psychotherapy or make an appropriate referal outside of our organization.
Many of you with depression and other related symptoms have been discouraged because you have attempted counseling,psychotherapy and medications in the past without significant success.
I am aware of these and many other problems that exist in receiving and benefiting from mental health services.I can and will do what I can given my time restraints.In the past,as founder and chairman of Humanistic Mental Health Foundation, I had many other professional and financial resources available including a grants and benefits program to supplement income and related expenditures in facilitating intensive treatment in hospital settings.
Today I am attemping reconstruct and improve upon those programs,so as to enable many others who simply cannot afford to pay for professional services or proper medications in a crisis.This is the one of the many reasons why I am reaching out to others who have been blessed with abundance or simply want to support those life saving causes.
We all have the tendency for self distructive behaviors in one form or other and struggle for survival and prosperity.In the abundance of our own strenths, we can and should help others along the way...
You may contact me by what ever manner you are comfortable, My heartfelt appreciation is extended to You and because SUICIDE IS PREVENTABLE...SM
Best Wishes,
Stephen Simon
Director/Founder