Professor Rory O’Connor joins Sophia Davis to discuss a paper on the Gone Too Soon project about premature mortality in people with mental illness or mental distress.
On today’s Healing 101, I’m joined by Professor Rory O’Connor, the professor of health psychology at Glasgow University and director of the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory, the leading suicide and self-harm research group in Scotland. He is also the author of When It Is Darkest Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It. Suicide can affect any one of us, and one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Yet, despite the scale of the devastation for family members and friends, suicide is still poorly understood.
Rory O’Connor is interviewed about his book When It Is Darkest for the Best of Belfast, Northern Ireland’s No.1 interviews podcast.
Rory and I spoke about; his book- When It Is Darkest, How to talk about suicide, Why the mental health services are lacking in the UK, socio-economic influences on mental health, how ‘The Social Dilemma’ documentary was too simplistic in terms of suicide attempts and self-harm statistics, Socially prescribed perfectionism, Status, and mental health, Explaining the statistics around global suicides, Alcohol and suicide and how you can help the suicide issue.
This episode is a bit different because it takes the form of a conversation between Shona Macpherson and Professor Rory O’Connor. Shona is a counsellor and life coach who works with and will be a familiar voice to you if you listen to the podcast regularly. Rory is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of suicide prevention.
This week we’re talking about suicide and prevention, why we should face our fear of talking about suicide, how researchers seek to widen our understanding and how we can look to prevent suicide deaths.
Professor Rory O’Connor joins Bryony on Mad World to dispel unhelpful myths, give practical advice to both those suffering and their loved ones, and to talk candidly about the painful reality of losing a friend to suicide as an expert on the subject.
In this episode, Professor Rory O’Connor, Director of Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory & Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Glasgow, talks to Jason and Mar about Suicide. His book “When it is Darkest – Why people die by suicide and what we can do to prevent it”.
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