How we talk about Kate Spade could help others survive

I was sitting at my desk when a push notification came on my phone about Kate Spade’s suicide, and I felt a rush of vertigo, as if the room had tipped sideways.

• Gayle Brandeis
• CNN

I had to clutch the arms of my desk chair to steady myself, had to take a few deep breaths.

My mother took her own life in 2009, and whenever I hear news of a suicide, it both reopens that grief and sends my heart hurtling toward the freshly grieving family, the family reeling from shock and…

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