• one of the world's first suicide hotlines

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 29 21:17:29 2023
    I had no idea that one of the world's first suicide hotlines was
    inspired by a teen girl who killed herself when she got her period.
    She didn't know what it meant and thought it was a divine punishment.
    Gifting this article because it's mindblowing.

    washingtonpost.com
    After a 1935 tragedy, a priest vowed to teach kids about menstruation
    A teenage girl died by suicide after she started menstruating and not
    knowing what it was, in 1935. A bill in Florida wants to take us back
    to those times.


    https://twitter.com/chasingray/status/1640132884823674882

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