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A world-first way for family and friends to help a suicidal person

A world-first way for family and friends to help a suicidal person

In this Healthed video, Clinical A/Prof David Horgan, will talk us through a world-first initiative of using text messages to help a suicidal person. This website InToughTimesText.org provides hundreds of medically approved text which family and friends can send to help a person in need.

Resources:
– In Tough Times Text Website
– In Tough Times Text Flyer (PDF)

Speaker

Clinical A/Prof David Horgan

Psychiatrist; Honorary Psychiatrist, Royal Melbourne Hospital; Founder, Australian Suicide Prevention Foundation; Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne

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Clinical A/Prof Horgan teaches Psychiatry to final year medical students and as part of his lecturing role as a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Melbourne. As part of his Fellowship of the College of Psychiatrists, he attends multiple ongoing education lectures in various aspects of psychiatry. He also regularly attends a peer review group of almost twenty experienced psychiatrists and is also heavily involved in an Australia-wide suicide prevention charity and telephone service which he founded, the Australian Suicide Prevention Foundation.

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