May is Mental Health Awareness Month
May 8, 2023 by Sheryl J. Moore
Many of you are familiar with the fact that my son, AJ Betts, took his own life after being bullied. He was 16, and beautiful, and so full of life!
And like Robin Williams and Kate Spade, you wouldn’t have known that he would ever complete suicide.
AJ was playing outside with our dogs, doing cartwheels, less than an hour before my youngest daughter found him.
In hindsight, I wished I had asked him that day, “Are you okay? I love you more than anything in the world!”
You just never know what kind of day someone is having.
Read up on the risk factors and warning signs of suicide, here.
-sjm