R;pple Suicide Prevention App Extension

Background

I lost my only sibling, my brother Josh, on 25th November 2020 to suicide at 21 years old. After examining Josh’s phone, I found that he had been researching techniques to take his own life via harmful internet searches. Mental health is a serious and urgent issue. Online searches for suicide methods have increased by 50% in the last 2 years with searches for suicide support lines also up by 150% since January 2019. (Semrush, 2021).

To ensure more help and support is given to individuals searching for harmful content online, I set up R;pple Suicide Prevention. R;pple is a digital tool, which if a user searches for harmful content online, they will first be guided through a filter of breathing exercises and then very simple, uncluttered and calmly presented strategies and forums, help lines and mental health services they can access both now and longer term: accompanied with messages of hope and encouragement to keep safe

Individually, you can download R;pple at home, for free, here.