Reaching Out May Not Help Your Friend in Crisis and That’s Not Your Fault

“Check in” is the advice — but it’s bigger than that

Hanna Brooks Olsen
7 min readFeb 27, 2019

--

CN: This is an article about suicide. Do what’s best for you.

In the wake of the suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, a lot of people took steps that they thought were helpful. They posted the National Suicide Prevention

--

--

Hanna Brooks Olsen

I wrote that one thing you didn’t really agree with.