Christopher Anderson was a healthy 22-year-old college student in San Angelo, Texas. He worked as a personal trainer at a health club in the area and had a girlfriend whom he lived with for a couple of years.
He would feel down at times but never showed signs of wanting to take his own life, according to his adoptive mother, Jana Anderson.
Mental health experts in the area of roughly 119,000 residents, having unearthed the startling problem, have created multiple programs, including one that allows them to meet with families at the scene of a perceived suicide. Some loved ones of those who have died have also created a support group. Sitting alongside McCoy, Nicole Elliott, a licensed social worker and director of WTCG’s Zero Suicide Services program, echoed his words. “It’s overwhelming for me because I know that a lot of Texans pride themselves on taking care of their neighbors, and there’s also this kind of ‘pick yourself up by the bootstraps.’
Out of 126 suicide deaths in Tom Green County since 2016, most of the cases were of people who identified as white , followed by Hispanic . Men accounted for a majority of the deaths . Hite-Jones, the senior manager of prevention initiatives for international nonprofit Education Development Center, grew up in a rural community in Ohio and says these areas have a special place in her heart as she works to promote prevention efforts while increasing awarenessShe stressed that there’s no definitive answer for what’s happening in an individual’s life but that rural communities do face specific challenges.
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