It’s #WorldSuicidePreventionDay, so here's my yearly post, which somehow never gets less scary to make.
I've lived with depression since I was 11. I’m now 29. Eighteen years.
I am so glad to be alive. But years ago, I would never have believed anyone who told me I would be. 1/
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There are many, many resources out there. I don't pretend that there is a magic resource that is perfect or will help everyone, but I absolutely believe that, for everyone, there exists at least one resource that will help. 8/
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Here are just a few. Starting with hotlines: - National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-8255, https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/ - Crisis Text Line: text "start" to 741741 - Trevor Project (LGBT hotline): 866-488-7386 - Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860
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Here is a much longer list of formal resources, including for specific situations and specific mental illnesses:https://afsp.org/find-support/resources/ …
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But the formal resources are only part of the story. You also need to read this thread from
@abbyhonold.https://twitter.com/abbyhonold/status/1074318188505124864 …Afficher cette discussion -
Above all else, I want to dispense fully and forever with the idea that depression, or any mental illness, = weakness. This is why people blame themselves. This is why people are afraid to ask for help.
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You are not weak because you're depressed. And you don't have to believe it will get better. I wrote a long essay about this a few years ago. I didn't, and have no intention to, publish it anywhere other than my personal Facebook page. But I will share how it ends.
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I wrote about the years I spent thinking of the girl I once was, and wishing I could help her — wishing I could convince her that life would get better, but knowing she would never have believed me. And I wrote about what that semicolon ring meant to me.
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"When I look at the ring," I wrote, "I see that girl on the kitchen floor, but I see her in a different light. I don’t feel the sudden, explosive ache, the desperate need to reach through time to help." (1/2)
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"I wish, still, that I could have spared her so much anguish. But she survived it without me. What I see when I look at the ring is the hope she couldn’t feel, and the strength she was sure she didn’t have." (2/2, end)
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