“The importance is to learn suicide, to be aware of the signs of suicidal intentions and the possibility of a recent suicide attempt and to learn how to accompany others through the pain that followed the suicide. This is the mission of Paula Gª Valverde Fonseca’s book that to be the necessary tool for everyone, especially for parents. From story-telling hypothesis to late intervention, without missing any step, she turns a complex subject into a complete and simple guide.”
—José Carlos Soto Madrigal，a suicide survivor，a suicide precaution activist and the associate director of Princess 81 Support Group for Suicide Survivors

★Each of us has the power to save the lives of those around us, which is relevant neither to our education experiences nor to our interpersonal relationship. We all have the ability to stop the occurrence of tragedy and change the fate of those who commit suicide.

Each year, about one million people die by suicide in the world. If one person commits suicide, there will be 20 people who want to follow suit, and countless people around affected. However, we rarely talk about suicide which makes it difficult for people who take suicide as the only way out to get the help they need. The stigmatization of psychological illness, negative reports on suicide and social taboos all are to blame for the reticence. Let’s break the shackle and prevent the occurrence of suicide through facing up to suicide and talking about it.
It’s possible to feel depressed, stressful, lonely or despairing at some point in our lives which will cause sad and negative thoughts. In real life, these people seem to be hidden, but probably the person who attempts suicide is no other than your daughter, your best friend, your colleague or the waitress who talks with you for a while every weekend. Reading this guide will help you to understand how others feel and make sense how things get to this point. You will gain some necessary tools to learn how to effectively help the person who is suffering from this kind of distress and the people around him.
Each of us has the power to save the lives of those around us, which is relevant neither to our education experiences nor to our interpersonal relationship. We all have the ability to stop the occurrence of tragedy and change the fate of those who want to commit suicide.

Paula Gª Valverde Fonseca
Born in 1991 in Madrid, she is a public health psychologist and an expert of researches in nervous disorder and problems with suicide. Since her youth, she has been sure that it is her mission to help those who have psychosocial health problems. Currently, she has accumulated a great deal of relevant experience from intervening in serious mental disorders through different channels of the Madrid Community Mental Health Network. Trained in humanistic psychotherapy, she specialized in emotionally centered therapy at Universidad Pontificia Comillas and University of York. Her professional interventions focus on the inner world of the individual, looking at their learning ability and emotion management and how these influenced the people and relationships around them day by day in the recovery process. Now she carries out professional activities in Spanish Association for Psychosis Support(AMAFE). Paula also is a staunch champion of feminism and animal rights, a lover of botany and astrophysics who establishes a cooperation with her family business, Bolair Vegetarian Chocolate shop.