Adoptee Remembrance Day was first commemorated on October 30, 2020. We’ve done a variety of episodes over the last few years beginning in 2020 with an interview with the founder of Adoptee Remembrance Day, Pamela Karanova. We’ve had listeners submit recordings of their thoughts, their poetry and prose. In deciding what to do this year, we were considering what would be most impactful for our community and we chose to do a healing series episode about suicide. This is the thing that we whisper about, we hide, we allude to, we are ashamed of, and we’re getting braver about discussing. We’ve invited Lina Vanegas, MSW, to talk to us about suicide.

Because of the topic we want to let you know exactly where we’re going in this episode. We talk about the research on adoptees and suicide, stigma surrounding death by suicide and appropriate language to use, finding supports as someone who has suicidal ideation and what to be cautious of, support for survivors of suicide attempts and suicide loss, and how to best support fellow adoptees who reach out to us when they are feeling suicidal.

TW: We will be mentioning suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and death by suicide at multiple points during this episode so please take care in deciding whether or not to listen.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Mentions

Past Adoptees On Adoptee Remembrance Day episodes: 159, 160, 194, 227
Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships by Rob Wipond
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/108/2/e30/63668/Adoption-as-a-Risk-Factor-for-Attempted-Suicide?redirectedFrom=fulltext?autologincheck=redirected
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/132/4/639/64833/Risk-of-Suicide-Attempt-in-Adopted-and-Nonadopted?redirectedFrom=fulltext?autologincheck=redirected
Lina’s upcoming event: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyg3UOfuYEA/
Lina’s podcast: Rescripting the Narrative

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