What I Should Have Said to the Man I Stopped from Jumping Off a Bridge

It’s a scenario nobody wants to find themselves in, but experts have tips on how to talk to a person in crisis

Lydia Smith
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 14, 2019

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A closeup shot of two unrecognizable people holding hands in comfort
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SSeveral years ago, I was walking across a bridge in central London with a friend when something caught my eye. A man who looked to be in his early twenties was…

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