It's National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, start listening

In trying to find a topic for this week’s column, I came across an image that was making the rounds on social media.

The picture was of a person with the caption “Just found out there’s a number to the suicide hotline I can text now! Relieved because I’m better at texting than I am at talking. Press START to 741-741.”

The image came from the Facebook page “Payton’s Pledge to Stop the Bullying,” which is a site dedicated to the memory of Payton Ruth Ann Anderson, who died in 2012 after a self-inflicting gunshot wound.

The number to the Crisis Text Line, which is a 24/7 support service founded i...