Confronting Suicide & Support for Reporters Covering Trauma

Each year about a million people in the United States attempt to take

their own lives. Another ten million people seriously consider suicide.

Those rates have been rising in the coronavirus pandemic. These statistics

became very real for us at PEACE TALKS RADIO recently when a talented

young producer named Hannah Colton, who did several episodes for us, took

her own life in November of 2020. On this episode we talk with

psychologist Dr. Ursula Whiteside about her efforts to stop suicide. We

also talk about the difficulty journalists face as frontline responders

with Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism

and Trauma. We also sample some of Hannah Colton's work for PEACE TALKS

RADIO. Megan Kamerick hosts the interviews.