The Voice Season 17 Runner-Up Ricky Duran’s New Single Helps Others Understand Suicide Loss. On This World Mental Health, Listen.
... [+]estimate that in the U.S. each year between 7,000 and 12,000 children lose a parent to suicide. One of those children is Ricky Duran, the runner-up of Season 17 of The Voice. He lost his father to suicide when he was 22. A few years later, he also lost his best friend the same way.
Despite being the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S., suicide is not something we talk about. It needs to be, especially on. Ricky explains, “There's a stigma about suicide and I think that it should be easier for people to communicate, to talk about it, and talk about their feelings without being looked at negatively...People should be more able to communicate their feelings of depression, feelings of, you know, being alone.
While, over time, Ricky has become more able to talk about his story publicly, it didn’t start out that way., of course, is one of the hardest parts of talking about any hard topic, but especially topics that might carry misunderstanding or judgement in the reaction of others. He says, “For the first couple of years, I actually didn't...know if I wanted to tell people that my father died by suicide. I don't know why.
In fact, the first time he auditioned for The Voice , was only one year after his father passed away and he says he initially shut down. He did not want to expose his history to the entire world. He even worried that sharing could trigger others, and their current or past histories. However, as the time passed, and he got support from his 3 older sisters, he became more comfortable taking control of his narrative. He emphasizes, “The way I see it is if I want to be in the public light and I want to be a musician that people recognize, they're going to know my story regardless if they look into it, so why not share it and I guess reach people with my story...Looking back, I don't know why I was trying to protect myself...
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