Get help for mental health

Kathleen Jemmett is a mental health nurse and shares how people don't need to be scared to reach out for help. She can identify with the Idaho AG community. David Sparks, Idaho AG today. Speaker 2: Growing up, I moved to Idaho. When I was in ninth grade. My dad was a religion teacher. He always had side jobs. He worked for the Forest Service a little bit, but he also farmed. He always had a farm and raised some cattle and raised alfalfa and some grain just for the use of our own animals. Here we did have some rough spots where we went through some drought periods. We had some water rights, but not enough to keep our fields where they were producing. It was tough. It was always a stressful thing. They worried a lot about finances and money and trying to make ends meet. You know, there was four of us kids and it wasn't easy. I can totally understand and realize that farming would be a very stressful occupation, and why it could so closely tie in with mental health. It's a risk. I mean, so many things in farming are out of your control. The shame of my grandparents had a farm and they were successful and my parents had the same farm. They were successful. And yet here, now that I've got it, we're losing it. How heavy that would be of a weight to carry on your shoulders. And so that would be very stressful. Speaker 1: And she has a place to turn. Speaker 2: Nine, eight, eight is the suicide hotline. And that's nationwide. You can call and just talk to someone. A relative had admitted to me that they were very suicidal. I ended up calling 988 and they were able to help that relative. Speaker 1: Her strong message get help.