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Finding hope

Journalist and author talks to students about suicide prevention

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Northwest author and KINK-FM radio personality Sheila Hamilton signs a copy of her book, "All The Things We Never Knew," for a WHS student. Hamilton spoke to students last week at an assembly, then one-on-one in the library.

Sometimes, the person you love more than anything and think you know better than anyone can be hiding a dark secret.

For Northwest author Sheila Hamilton, it was her first husband, David. For years, he suffered from bipolar disorder but hid it from the world. After medications that worsened his condition, commitment to a psychiatric ward and several suicide attempts, he died by suicide in December 2006.

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