Male Suicide Prevention Concept 2025 – “HONESTY”
Suicide is a very hard subject to represent in design. It is totally subjective to each individual and there is no “one size fits all” solution which will reach every man at risk. I had watched many videos about suicide, I had read lots of information and looked at lots of creative ideas. I was starting to experience the feeling of being unable to say what I needed to. I wanted to speak directly to a man who I didn’t know, I did not want to tell him how he felt, I didn’t want to simplify the issue. What would I say to someone who I knew might have suicidal thoughts?
This passage, or a script like this simply speaks directly at the man who may be having suicidal thoughts.
The CTA signposts the viewer to, download the Staying Alive App.
Male Suicide Prevention Concept 2025 – “It’s time we turned it around”
Based on the statistic that Every 2 hours a man chooses to take his own life this design represents the slow descent into suicide, often verbalised by “wanting to disappear”.
The hourglass represents time and features a hand invocative of a drowning man, reaching for help. The line “it’s time we turned this around” represents change and visually, the idea that by turning the hourglass around and restoring the man within.
This idea can presented at various stages. A man trapped in a hourglass, a man attempting to climb out, and the final stage of the hand reaching.
It is a powerful image with the ability to grab attention and provoke thought.
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