9 March
…on suicide.
Been there, tried it, the hospital didn’t give me a t-shirt.
It’s a hard concept for people who have never had those persistent thoughts to understand. Death is something us here in North America are expected and taught to fear. It is not supposed to be something you gravitate to and yearn for.
^ but doesn’t my word usage of yearn explain everything. To yearn for death, the mind must be in a pretty fucked up place to begin with.To leave all the beauty life has to offer, to leave your children, the mind MUST be in crisis. Anyone contemplating suicide deserves to be treated with empathy and care. They are fragile, in that moment.
If ANYONE that you know ever even MENTIONS suicide in reference to themselves, you take that seriously. No matter how many times they may have said it in the past, you take them seriously. No matter how inebriated they are, you take them seriously.