As a kid, I remember hearing my mom on the phone with her younger brother, my uncle: “David, tell them you’re going to kill yourself. It’s the only way they’re going to admit you. And you need to be admitted now. “But please don’t kill yourself!” Thousands of us could share a memory like that, as painful as it might be. Sadly, many of those stories end in tragedy. And few of them are told. We need to talk about them. All of them. And with the help of many brave families, The Dispatch is going to do that for six days starting on Tuesday, when we begin the series we call “Silent Suffering.” We chose that name because millions are quietly...
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