By Dr. Vinay Saranga

September is a challenging time for me. As a mental health practitioner, National Suicide Prevention Month is a blunt reminder that no matter how much we raise awareness, this epidemic continues to take too many lives.

Personally, it’s painful as I reflect back one year on a loss that forever changed me. It was sudden, shocking, and no amount of training could have prepared me.

Despite being a psychiatrist and spending every day diagnosing and treating mental health, I was blindsided when a family member I loved deeply took their own life. The warning signs were elusive, barely perceptible even in hindsight. They hid it so well, even from me. Despite my background and knowledge, I never saw it coming.

It’s an experience that haunts me every day, wondering what I co

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