Suicide 'n' Stuff

01/09/2024

A perfect article to set the tone for National Su***de Prevention Month. Carceral care does not save lives; in fact, su***de risk goes up post-discharge.

Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.

19/05/2021

So we were gonna try and do an episode since we’re in the same place but crisis demanded matching tattoos, and here we are. Sorry, not sorry. (Art by Alyse Ruriani)

05/05/2021

Su***de 'n' Stuff: Episode 40 with Dave Jobes!

S’n’S is a video podcast situation where your hosts, Dese’Rae L. Stage & Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, talk about su***de…and also stuff. All the stuff and all the things!

Episode 40: We talk with the one and only Dave Jobes about his work in the suicidology field, CAMS-care, working with people with lived experience, and sitting with discomfort.

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ABOUT DAVE JOBES:

David A. Jobes, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology, Associate Director of Clinical Training, and Director of the Su***de Prevention Laboratory at The Catholic University of America. Dave was President of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) in 1999 and has received the Shneidman Award (1995), the Dublin Award (2012), and the Linehan Award (2016) from AAS in recognition of his research. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Foundation for Su***de Prevention (AFSP) and serves on AFSP’s Scientific Council and Public Policy Council. Dave created the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) which is a person-centered, su***de-focused, clinical treatment supported by five published randomized controlled trials (RCT’s) and a new meta-analysis. Dave is an expert in professional ethics and
risk management, and he has a private clinical and consulting practice in Washington DC. Dave is the founder of CAMS-care, LLC which is a professional training and consultation company.

29/04/2021

"These bias crimes are the result of hateful ideology that is unrelated to mental illness. Research supports the presence of persistent and significant negative bias in reporting regarding mental illness across news media. Further, media reports of the presumed association between mental illness and violence increase public stigma and cause harm to people diagnosed with mental illnesses, who themselves are at heightened risk of violent victimization."

Earlier this month, in the wake of escalating hate crimes against Asian Americans, the New York Times published an article that perpetuates the myth that mental illness is a driver of racial violence.

This rhetoric exacerbates false stereotypes of those of us with lived experience and erases the impacts of racial trauma on well being. IDHA has signed an open letter written by members of the professional clinician/researcher, family member, peer/lived experience, and AAPI community pushing back against this narrative. The letter was submitted to the NY Times and not published, so has been self-published via Medium instead.

Read it here: https://lgonzales-11502.medium.com/letter-to-the-editor-regarding-the-coverage-of-mental-illness-in-the-new-york-times-b5a390c2b4f5

21/04/2021

Su***de 'n' Stuff: Episode 39 with Willa Goodfellow!

S’n’S is a video podcast situation where your hosts, Dese’Rae L. Stage & Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, talk about su***de…and also stuff. All the stuff and all the things!

Episode 39: We talk with Willa Goodfellow about faith, su***de, comedy, and more!

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ABOUT WILLA GOODFELLOW:

As an Episcopal priest, Willa Goodfellow was a national legislator working for the full participation of LBGTQ people in the Church. Her ministry included troubled teens, college students, congregations in transition, and diocesan structures to develop spiritual leadership within local communities. She was a professional troublemaker.

Life-long depression caught up with her in her fifties. Her poor pitiful brain nearly threw itself over the edge as a consequence of misdiagnosis and treatment with way too many antidepressants. But hey—she got some great rants out of the experience and went freelance as a troublemaker. She is now a mental health journalist, speaker, blogger, and author.

Willa graduated with honors from both Reed College and Yale Divinity School, because for the longest time in her life, “good enough” just wasn’t good enough. She has lived on the edge of the Rockies, edge of the Mississippi, edge of madness, and currently edge of the Circle of Fire, the ancestral lands of the Confederated tribes of Warm Springs. Her book, Prozac Monologues: A Voice from the Edge, will be followed by her current writing project, Bar Tales of Costa Rica and a third book about faith and su***de.

05/03/2021

This is incredible.

03/03/2021

Big ideas on IG Live with the Temple Wellness Resource Center!

03/03/2021

Des is doing a thing!

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18/02/2021

HALLO! You will not be seeing our glorious, complaining faces this Tuesday! How will you spend the time? Worst answer gets an unpleasant prize! For real for real

10/02/2021

Su***de 'n' Stuff: Episode 38 with Vikki Reynolds!

S’n’S is a video podcast situation where your hosts, Dese’Rae L. Stage & Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, talk about su***de…and also stuff. All the stuff and all the things!

Episode 38: Uh, neither of us are okay. Vikki Reynolds agreed to come on Su***de 'n' Stuff! Will we even be able to talk, or will she be too glorious for us to handle? If we CAN get past the fangirling, there's so much to discuss! The Zone of Fabulousness! The power imbalances and colonialism inherent in concepts like trauma. How to do good work as a white settler on stolen land. And on and on! Be there.

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ABOUT VIKKI REYNOLDS:

Vikki Reynolds (PhD RCC) is an activist/therapist who works to bridge the worlds of social justice activism with community work and therapy. Vikki is a white settler on the territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations. Vikki& #39;s people are Irish, Newfoundland and English folks, and she is a heterosexual woman with cisgender privilege. Her experience includes supervision and therapy with peers and other workers responding to the opioid catastrophe, refugees and survivors of torture - including Indigenous people who have survived residential schools and other state violence, sexualized violence counsellors, mental health and substance misuse counsellors, housing and shelter workers, activists and working alongside gender and sexually diverse communities. Vikki is an Adjunct Professor and has written and presented internationally. See her work at vikkireynolds.ca.

27/01/2021

Su***de 'n' Stuff: Episode 37 with Mike Anestis!

S’n’S is a video podcast situation where your hosts, Dese’Rae L. Stage & Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, talk about su***de…and also stuff. All the stuff and all the things!

Episode 37: We talk with Mike Anestis, a leading researcher on fi****ms and su***de, about Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs, also known as red flag laws); means restriction around fi****ms and why we don't talk as much about means restriction for other su***de methods; what it means to collaborate around means restriction; and why we focus on fi****ms at all if we're not also addressing the root of the misery that makes people want to end their lives.

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ABOUT MIKE ANESTIS:

Dr. Mike Anestis is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center and an Associate Professor of Urban-Global Public Health at Rutgers University. His research focuses on su***de prevention, with a particular focus on the role of fi****ms. Dr. Anestis is the author of over 160 peer reviewed articles as well as the book “Guns and Su***de: An American Epidemic,” published by Oxford University Press. He was the 2018 recipient of the Edwin Shneidman award from the American Association of Suicidology, which recognizes the scientist under age 40 who has made the greatest scientific contribution to the field of su***de prevention.

13/01/2021

Su***de 'n' Stuff: Episode 36 with Carrie Jurney!

S’n’S is a video podcast situation where your hosts, Dese’Rae L. Stage & Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, talk about su***de…and also stuff. All the stuff and all the things!

Episode 36: Carrie Jurney! We'll be talking to Carrie Jurney (veterinarian and President of Not One More Vet) about how su***de affects veterinarians

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ABOUT CARRIE JURNEY:

Not One More Vet started simply as a place for veterinary professionals to talk to each other online. Over the years it has grown tremendously, and it is now the largest wellness focused charity for veterinary wellbeing in the world. As one of the founding board members, and now President of NOMV, Dr. Carrie Jurney has sought extensive continuing education in crisis counseling and su***de prevention. She brings this knowledge, and her experience doing peer-to-peer interventions with members of the group, to her lectures. When she’s not working with NOMV, Dr. Jurney is a veterinary neurologist and practice owner of Jurney Veterinary Neurology in the San Francisco Bay Area, wife to Chris, sculptor, amateur blacksmith, and zookeeper to two cats and an oversized dog named Max.

30/12/2020

Su***de 'n' Stuff: Episode 35 with Alyse Ruriani!

S’n’S is a video podcast situation where your hosts, Dese’Rae L. Stage & Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, talk about su***de…and also stuff. All the stuff and all the things!

Episode 35: Alyse Ruriani! Our last show of 2020! We'll be talking with Alyse about artist, advocate, lived experience, being a clinician, and how all of these identities intersect and influence one another.

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ABOUT ALYSE RURIANI:

Alyse Ruriani is a wearer of many (metaphorical) hats, some of which include: illustrator/graphic designer, art therapist/counselor, advocate/activist, and a person with lived experience. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MA in Art Therapy and Counseling from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a clinician, Alyse works at a group practice, Best Therapies, Inc under the supervision of Jason Best, LCSW. Alyse primarily with young adults dealing with trauma, suicidality, eating disorders, substance use, relational concerns, and LGBTQIA+ issues, among others. She utilizes a person-centered, anti-oppressive, relational-cultural approach to therapy and incorporates principles and values from harm reduction, attachment theory, DBT, and Health at Every Size frameworks. As a designer, Alyse creates, shares, and sells her illustrations on topics related to mental health, self & community care, body positivity and social justice in addition to doing freelance design for related organizations and companies. As an advocate/activist and person with lived experience, Alyse writes, publishes, and speaks about her experiences in person and on the internet. And as a human, Alyse combines all of her hats to try and help build a better world. Check out her work at https://alyseruriani.com.

27/12/2020

Um, hi. Hello. Christmas is over, thank the Lord Baby Jesus! And guess the f**k what? Alyse Ruriani joins us on Tuesday at 9 pm et to talk about all kinds of things! Art, advocacy, lived experience, clinical work, and BEEF. Last show of 2020!

A video podcast situation where we talk about su***de...and also stuff. All the stuff and all the things!

23/12/2020

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16/12/2020

Su***de 'n' Stuff: Episode 34!

S’n’S is a video podcast situation where your hosts, Dese’Rae L. Stage & Jess Stohlmann-Rainey, talk about su***de…and also stuff. All the stuff and all the things!

Episode 34: Ashley Loftin Murray! We'll be talking with Ashley about peer support, lived experience, art, and more.

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ABOUT ASHLEY LOFTIN MURRAY:

Ashley Loftin Murray is a writer, artist, activist, and Certified Peer Specialist based in Boston, Massachusetts. She specializes in working with teenagers ages 12-19, helping them build a sense of creative identity through art and storytelling. In 2014, she graduated with her BA in Mass Media from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, with minors in Women and Gender Studies and French. Her media specializations were in screenwriting and creative nonfiction.

After graduating, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a barista until 2016. That year, she was the first place recipient of the Paul G. Quinnett Lived Experience Writing Prize. After celebrating in Chicago, she returned with a new sense of purpose and many ideas about how to move forward. Her brain had other plans, and she spent most of the remainder of the year in and out of inpatient and partial hospitalizations, and eventually received diagnoses of OCD and PTSD. She considers this one of the major turning points in her life. She got sober. She fell in love. She learned how to better manage big feelings, overwhelming sensory input, and intrusive thoughts.

After a short stint as a mental health outreach intern for the North American Indian Center of Boston in 2017, she applied for her first peer support job. Over the next three years, she worked with scores of teenagers in a group home setting, both formally and informally, fostering relationships with clients and coworkers in an effort to boost the platform of lived experience in the mental health field.

Now Ashley has taken a step back from her role as an agency peer support specialist to focus on personal creative projects, research, and activism. Her next big project will be assisting in the research, design and implementation of a grant-funded mental health program for Indigenous youth, beginning June 2021.

16/12/2020

HALLO! Get your butts pumped for Ashley Loftin Murray! We're gonna talk about all kinds of stuff tonight at 9pm et: art, lived experience, working as a peer in a field with discriminatory practices—you know, all that fun stuff. Tune in!

02/12/2020

Next up on Su***de 'n' Stuff: Ashley Loftin Murray! We'll be talking with Ashley about peer support, lived experience, and more on 12/15 at 9pm et!