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Don't Believe Everything You Think: Talking About Suicide
It's Mental Health Awareness Month, and we're kicking off a special weeklong series on Northland Morning called "Don't Believe Everything You Think: Talking About Suicide." TXT4LIFE started right here in the Northland in 2011.No matter who you are, if you need someone to talk to, text “Life” to 61222. A trained counselor will respond to your text. Find out more about TXT4LIFE at txt4life.orgThe Mental Health Week on KUMD was made possible in part by the Human Development Center, Miller-Dwan Foundation and the St. Luke’s Foundation.

Don't Believe Everything You Think: Talking About Suicide - alcoholism myths in Indian Country

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published September 12, 2016 at 2:13 PM CDT
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Native American teens experience the highest rate of suicide of any population in the United states, more than double that of the general population, according to the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute. And as is so often the case, alcohol factors into almost 70% of those deaths. 

The Mental Health Week on KUMD was made possible in part by the Human Development Center, Miller-Dwan Foundation and the St. Luke’s Foundation.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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