September 2026

If you think about someone in suicidal distress, who do you imagine? Someone that tears up at every turn, avoids socializing, appears hopeless and boringly miserable. However, emotional pain does not often wear a banner. People can hide their suicidal distress behind a smile, a tight schedule and career success and even apparently positive feelings.

Aging can mean meaningful experiences, family ties and new chapters in life. But that experience can also have challenges too hard to discuss. Emotional well-being can be impacted by retirement, loss of independence, chronic health issues, bereavement, isolation and loneliness, worries about money/debts/pensions/health care for either self or others and changes in family relationships. One