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UCLA RESILIENCE RUN

FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION

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UCLA Drake Stadium

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Sunday, September 29, at 10am

Join us at Drake Stadium at 10am on September 29, 2024 for the annual UCLA Resilience Run for suicide prevention.

 

The purpose of the Resilience Run and the movement for mental health is to raise funds and awareness for suicide prevention. The Resilience Run was started in honour of Natalie Puente, a UCLA rower who lost her life to suicide and now also honours Daniel De La Torre, a UCLA cross country runner who lost his life to suicide. Resilience Rally is a mental health non-profit organization on a mission to change the narrative surrounding mental illness. Instead of seeing mental illness as a weakness, we are rallying together to show people that living with a mental illness takes immense resilience. Despite this resilience, suicide is the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-34. 

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What does it mean to end the stigma?

There is a harsh stigma that exists surrounding suicide. Suicide has a long tradition of being thought of as a criminal act. People who attempt suicide or die by suicide might be wrongly labelled as "attention seeking", "cowards", or "selfish". Those who perpetrate these stigmas avoid, shun, distrust, and stereotype those affected by suicide. 

We want to end this hurtful stigma and educate people about suicide. Someone might want to end their life to escape what they feel is an impossible situation, to relieve unbearable thoughts or feelings from mental illness, or to relieve physical pain or incapacity. These individuals are often the most magnetic, bright, selfless, compassionate people you know. It is the pain you do not see that takes their life. Suicide is not selfish, it is devastating. 

Together, we can help those who are struggling by creating a world that is more accepting. Allowing people to be vulnerable with their thoughts and emotions will lead to more conversations about mental health, more mental health care professionals and programs, and a society that is compassionate to pain that they cannot see on the outside.

Show your community that no one is alone and we will face mental illness and suicide together, head on.

You are not alone. You are resilient. Let's end the stigma.

 

We invite you to run or walk 5k with us in-person or virtually on September 29th to end the stigma. 

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