Capitol, where the congressman was present because he believed it was his duty to count the electoral votes and confirm Joe Biden’s presidential victory.Īn invisible burden: I have a disability everyone can see. The family continued to show courage when, the day after Raskin buried his son, the grieving father found himself caught in the Trump-fueled insurrection at the U.S. It took courage for the Raskins to come forward. The hotline: Finally we can call 988 suicide hotline when we fear that we or a loved one is at riskīecause of the stigma surrounding suicide, many researchers say these numbers are underreported. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, the annual suicide rate increased 35% from 1999 through 2018, with the suicide rate among men nearly four times higher than women. His depression was "a kind of relentless torture in the brain for him, and despite very fine doctors and a loving family … the pain became overwhelming and unyielding and unbearable at last.” Misunderstanding depressionĪ friend sent me the Raskins’ message because she knows I’ve been an advocate for openness about not only mental illness - especially depression, which I also suffer from - but also the plague of suicides in this country, which took nearly 50,000 Americans in 2018.
At the end of the statement, the Raskins named the disease that killed their son.
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