Ethan Murray Fund hosts pro skier, documentary filmmaker and mental health advocate By Ben OlsonReader Staff You’ve likely heard this before from those visiting resort towns like Sandpoint: “It must be paradise to live...
By Ammi MidstokkeReader Contributor I knew a woman who thrived, and then didn’t. There were subtle changes, the kinds of things you see later, when it’s too late — when they play over and...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff I wrote a snippet titled, “On a more bitter note…” in the June 12 “Junk Drawer,” wherein I argued that members of my generation are doing the best we...
By Emily Erickson Reader Staff Author’s note: This article contains descriptions of a mental health crisis. Please take care while reading. If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available — consider...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff In the four years I attended Sandpoint High School many of my peers took their own lives — in 2015 we lost three in one year. The administration and...
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist If America gave up its guns, suicides would crash. —The Economist(11/24/18) In 1972 I moved from Denmark, where I had had taught for one year, to Moscow to start...
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor “Lithium saved my life,” I keep reading in testimonies, but sadly some of the people who have been prescribed lithium to help curb their suicidal or manic tendencies decades...
