Weekly Wellness 9/15/2021

"People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help" - Glennon Doyle

This Friday, September 17th, is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day.

Some of us wear our emotions on our sleeves. But many of us are more private. Some of us air our problems to everyone. But some of us keep them bottled up, and put on a happy face.

Everyone deals with their own emotional struggles differently. It is so important, in a profession that has a higher suicide rate than the rest of the population, that we remember this. That we look out for each other. That when we say, "how are you", that we really mean it. That we really want to know.

In the ER we say we can tell a kidney stone from the door. We can spot a heart attack rolling in on the stretcher. But depression and emotional struggles can look like anything. You don't know, if you don't ask.