Shahbaz: More than just in September, keep an eye out for everyone

Shahbaz: More than just in September, keep an eye out for everyone

Trigger Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide, self-harm and self-injury. I write this article in the middle of September because that’s when many people begin to forget that September is national suicide prevention month. This is not an empirical claim, but rather one made from my own observations. This highlights a major problem in the way we, as a society, treat suicide and self-injury amongst people for different reasons. I do n…