Dr. Matt Zakreski
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438 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2021
last heard Nov 2021
Dr. Matt Zakreski’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm worried for you.
I'm scared for you.
I I can see how much pain you're in.
And we're gonna figure this out together.
Let's not be afraid to get our hands dirty when it comes to these kind of conversations.
One of the things that we can do is acknowledge where our own comfort and skill levels end.
If you have this conversation with your children and they are revealing things as suicidal allegation, deep levels of depression, and you're realizing very quickly like, okay, so it's great that we're having this conversation because it's way more important that we're talking about it than if we're not talking about it.
So as long as we're talking, as long as we're engaging, we're okay.
So this is where we talk about resources like the National Suicide Hotline.
This is where we talk about mobile crisis.
You know, most counties in the United States operate a mobile crisis unit that will come to your house and do an assessment.
You know, and this isn't the proverbial guys in white coats, right?
This is trained social workers who are are here to determine if you're safe.
Another thing is it's not inappropriate to pull up this podcast, right?
To pull up a TED talk on there's many TED talks on suicide.
Because we've established that you're not gonna put the idea in your kids' head.
But what you're doing is you're engaging with media that's that lays it out in ways that perhaps we don't have.
Right.
And we say like
hear the resources that are available to us, you know, I'm I'm checking myself.
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