"Everyone knows that if a child’s parent dies, the child will suffer with sadness, loss, and possibly depression. No one thinks about this being the case when a child loses a parent to success."
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"She felt completely isolated from the rest of humankind. Other people seemed happy and complete. They seemed to know each other, to care for each other, and to be free. Other people didn’t seem to hide parts of themselves or to have this struggle. "
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"The only way she could soothe herself was to imagine being dead. Being dead would be such a relief. She did not have any intention to kill herself, but she reserved the possibility as a safety net."
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"She tried to make the numbness and emptiness go away by watching an old show. It didn’t work, so she lay down on her sofa and started to imagine being dead, since that usually helped. This time, it didn’t seem to work, and instead the emptiness and pain just got more intense".
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"Desperate to stop the worsening pain, Robyn impulsively ran to her bathroom and swallowed every pill she could find in her medicine cabinet, many of which she had stored up just in case she ever got this desperate."
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"As you can see, the Robyn that everyone else knew and loved was not the real Robyn."
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"Emptiness is actually a feeling in and of itself. And I have discovered that it is a feeling that can be very intense and powerful. In fact, it has the power to drive people to do extreme things to escape it."
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"Cal had a plan to kill himself at the end of the millennium. The idea of dying in a big way was comforting to him, because he felt that people around him would finally be able to see the pain that he had been forever unable to communicate to them through words."
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