People often ask me why I participate in the AFSP Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk.

Part of the answer is personal. Like many people who participate in the Overnight, I’ve lost someone I love to suicide. But the reason I keep coming back goes beyond my own experience.

Being suicidal is isolating. Losing someone to suicide is isolating. One of the things I find most powerful about the Overnight is that it pushes back against that isolation.