Everything I Know About Suicide

Lynn S. Garson* April 15, 2021 [These are my thoughts as a lay person, not a counselor of any type or description, and do not reflect the opinions or positions of any other person, entity, agency or publication, including without limitation my employer, the State Bar of Georgia, the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism or […]

Depression and Suicide: One Bar’s Story

In the years between 1984 and 1993, the Mecklenburg County Bar Association in Charlotte, NC lost eight members to suicide. Put in the context of my arrival as the bar’s first executive director in 1984, this translates to eight suicides in nine years. Seven men and one woman took their lives in that span of […]