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Jul 28, 2021

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Life Reset

A Colleague’s Suicide Sent Me to ER

Stress was killing me and I didn’t have a clue

Woman lying in bed looking at her cell phone — Photo by Shane on Unsplash

I awoke, grabbed my phone from the nightstand and scrolled through Facebook. A familiar face kept popping up, a colleague had taken his life the previous night.

My body reacted immediately.

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