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⚠️TRIGGER WARNING:⚠️
This episode contains discussions about suicide and may be triggering for some listeners. Discretion is advised.

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More than 700,000 deaths each year globally are resulted from suicide with far-reaching social, emotional, and economic consequences, and deeply affects individuals and communities worldwide.

The theme for this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day carried the theme "Changing the Narrative on Suicide" with an urgent call to action "Start the Conversation".

Today, Maame Serwa shares her ordeal of how a shift from living in Ghana to adjusting to life in the United States shot her down a spiral of a silent struggle with suicidal thoughts as a child right into her teenage years.