Marci Glidden Savage is the CEO of a family-owned packaging supply company. After experiencing the catastrophic impact of suicide twice, Marci emerges as a fierce proponent for eliminating the social stigma attached to mental illness which keeps many individuals battling depression and anxiety from seeking help. Marci lives in Southern California where she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling and endless hours of genealogy research.
Listen to this insightful Whinypaluza episode with Marci Glidden Savage
about mission to shed light upon and destigmatize mental health issues and how those who have lost loved ones to suicide can learn to cope in the aftermath.
Here is what to expect on this week’s show:
- Marci lost her husband of 34 years suicide and no one saw the signs or knew that he was suffering inside.
- Supporting her children in this time became her #1 priority.
- Running her own business forced her to continue on through the grief and make sure things continued to run.
- Marci found love and marriage again, only for it to happen once more.
- Marci found she had to deal with people’s ideas and opinions of her husbands’ mental health and her ability to see the signs.
- Some who suffer from anxiety and depression weave it into their very existence just to cope and never work on resolving their feelings or opening up to others.
- There is a stigma in opening up about deep, depressive thoughts or anxiety. It affects their self-worth.
- Men aged 55-65 have a higher rate of suicide. Their self-worth often ties into their success and ability to provide for their families. This is often the age they may feel like they have failed at these things.
- The family is left behind to carry the burden of other’s narratives of what happened. They have to defend and explain, and justify their inability to prevent the death of their loved ones.
- Her message to others: allow families to grieve as they would for any other death.
- Personifying death can be a coping mechanism. Turn grief from an emotion into an entity that you can treat accordingly, allowing you to stop holding it inside.
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