Brothers and sisters we are all linked, your invovlvement is crucial in saving lives!
Each year one million people kill themselves. Each death directly affects ten people and indirectly affects a further 50. So each year 60 million people are scarred by suicide.
IF YOU ARE FEELING DEPRESSED AND SUICIDAL AND NEED SUPPORT, YOU MUST READ THIS INFORMATION NOW!
This web site provides information regarding befriending and how it can help to prevent suicide. It lists the contact details of hundreds of befriending centers around the world, where people who are suicidal can talk to trained volunteers. We hope you will find it helpful.
Befrienders International is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Please view their web site below.
For the Montréal branch: - Suicide - Action Montréal, Inc. Regarding Phoenix, Arizona: contact, info@EMPACT-SPC.com - Empact Suicide Prevention Center is a most informative and effective web site. Quebec continues to have the highest suicide rates in the industrialized world, due to Quebec's Inuit, in Kuujjuag, northern Quebec. As per the Gazette newspaper, March 24, 2000. The suicide rate in the region is 211 per 100,000, and the Canadian rate is 14 per 100,00. However, these statistics are quite impressive, in that the 1996 - 1998 Canadian Report, shows the population of Quebec as: 7 million, 138 thousand and 795 hundred persons. Also, the "Association Québecoise de Suicidologie (ASQ) state "the rate as 19.2 per 1000,000 for 1996 - 1998". Most alarming is that we are told the numbers are on the rise. These are the danger signs to be aware of in our everyday lives:
Guideline - 1 - Signs of suicidal tendency.
Guideline - 2 - Guideline - 3 - Guideline - 4 - Guideline - 5 -
2345 rue Belanger, est - c.p. 310, Succ. Saint Michel - Montréal, Qc.
Bureau: (514)723-3594 - Crisis: (514)723-4000
- great change in eating or sleeping habits
- hyperactivity
- being accident-prone
- physical complaints
- aggressiveness
- sudden loss of interest in prized possessions
- apathy, anxiety
- overwhelming guilt or self-hate
- alcohol or drug abuse
- apparent improvement after a peroid of depression
- The person is seriously vulnerable to reversal now, and has more energy to act on suicidal thoughts.
- If the answer is "yes', follow through by asking, "Have you thought you might do it?" If the person has a definite plan, if the means are easily available: the method lethal, and if the time is set, the risk of suicide is very high. Your response will be geared to the urgency of the situation as you see it. It is vital not to underestimate the danger by not asking for details.
- If you think there is immediate danger,DO NOT LEAVE THE PERSON ALONE.Stay with him/her until the crisis, or help arrives. It is possible to talk a person down from the crisis, or help them talk themselves out of it. There is almost ambivalence - partly wanting to die partly to live. The Befrienders are always available to help, you or the person in danger. Encourage them to call in confidence, or to come into a Befrienders center and please contact us yourself at any time for support in your helping efforts or to discuss a referral, if necessary.
- If the person is haullucinating, affected by drugs or alcohol, if an attempt has begun or is imminent, do not try to go it alone. Stay with the person, and contact any of the following.
- an ambulance in your town
- your local police
- emergency room of a local hospital
- a trusted adult
- The Befrienders International
- CONTACT YOUR LOCAL CHURCH ETC.
- Regarding Montreal, Quebec, Contact Onward Gospel Church - (514)769-2693 - 165 Galt Ave., Verdun, Qc.
Commit to God - The Amplified Bible pictures us committing our load to God by rolling it unto Him. It is helpful to note that we can roll something too heavy to carry or to cast. What are we to commit - to trust - to God?
Ourselves - Psalm 22:8
He trusts in the Lord;
let the Lord rescue him.
Let Him deliver him, since he delights in him.
Our Burdens - Psalm 55:22
Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let the righteous fall.
Our Souls - Peter 4:19
So then, those who suffer according to God's
will should commit themselves
to their Creator and continue to do good.
Our Way - Psalm 37:5
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust Him.
Our Cause - Peter 2:23
When they hurled insults at Him, he did not retaliate;
when he suffered, he made no threats.
instead, He entrusted himselve to Him
Our Works - Proverbs 16:3
Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed.
Women's Devoutional Bible - page 581
If this is your situation, know that there is hope, put your trust in our Lord, Creator and Saviour, who does love you, and forgives all sins. Praise the Lord!
Please contact me at...hwhite@securenet.net
You may also mail your requests to:
The Cornerstone Connection
PO Box 15
Aztec,
NM 87410
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Launched lovingly in Christ - February 23, 2000, updated, May 14, 2001. Relaunched as a new page March 01, 2002. Last update January 29, 2004.