Providing empathy, compassion, and reassurance that one is not alone is crucial when engaging with someone in suicidal crisis.

“If you look at them with kind eyes Hospital hospital hospital 'ti and compassion with total empathy an entire lack of judgment for what they're thinking if you don't tell them that what they're thinking is wrong if you let them know that millions of people around the world think of suicide and you s”

Talking about suicide does not encourage or increase suicidal ideation in individuals.

“One of the biggest myths that I that I hear is if I talk about suicide, if I ask my child or ask my spouse or ask my friend about suicide, it's going to give them the idea and make them suicidal. And so, I'm not going to say anything. Uh and that's been shown experimentally time and again to not be ”

She asserts that individuals with bipolar disorder are at the highest risk for suicide completion among those with psychiatric diagnoses.

“But it's there are also people who have actually the most lethal of all illnesses is bipolar disorder. So 15% of people who have bipolar disorder, true bipolar disorder, will commit complete suicide. They will kill themselves. 15%. The highest of any diagnosis.”

Wilson argues that technological solutions can effectively monitor high-risk individuals and provide timely interventions to prevent veteran suicide.

“so the whole premise is for us to try to take advantage of technology to help uh with mental health”

Volunteering on a suicide hotline serves as highly effective training for developing emotional intelligence and empathy skills.

“I went there to learn and I was fascinated by it and so then I'm teachable I'm coachable I learned their process and I saw how quickly empathy emotional intelligence accelerated outcomes positive outcomes”

Psychiatric wards fail to provide effective rehabilitation for mental health patients and may even worsen their condition.

“I compare the psychward like what the psych ward is to mental health patients is what prison is to criminals. Like it doesn't help. There's no rehabilitation or reform. It's like just makes it worse.”

The cure for addiction and feelings of isolation is intimacy and establishing deep, meaningful connections.

“what we self-medicate when we self-medicate is the pain of disconnection. And the cure for addiction is intimacy.”

Britton believes that providing a safe space for people to tell their stories without being judged or interrupted is a key form of support.

“I want people to be able to tell their stories uninhibitedly so they can start to find solace in in community”