[…] mental illness. The Skeleton Twins (2014) The opening scene of Skeleton Twins shows the film’s main characters, Milo (Bill Hader) and Maggie (Kristen Wiig), both attempting suicide. Milo’s attempt lands him in the hospital, which reunites the brother and sister after 10 years of estrangement. Both characters express their depression in candid and […]
[…] keep those around me from finding out how bad I truly felt. I was so conditioned to “man up” that when the pain, sorrow and thoughts of suicide ran through my mind, I had no answer. I couldn’t yell or puff my chest at depression. Depression didn’t care how much I could lift or […]
[…] everyone. It's the cluster of symptoms that need to match up for a diagnosis. I am somewhere in the middle. My lows are low and have reached suicide ideation. My mania, however, is classified as "hypo," and expresses itself in behaviors such as talking faster than normal, staying up late with lots of energy […]
[…] us should focus on providing youth with the resources and information they need to get help if they are experiencing mental health issues or having thoughts of suicide. To do that, we need resources like NAMI Ending the Silence. What We Learn Becomes Who We Are NAMI Ending the Silence (NAMI ETS) is a […]
[…] believed that I was unworthy of love and happiness. I believed that I was broken and worthless, and that my life had no value. I believed that suicide was the only logical answer to my problems. But, in the past four years, I have learned that my life has value. I know now that […]
[…] gay neighborhood, for 10 years. In that time, I’ve unfortunately known far too many people who have overdosed from drugs or alcohol or who have died by suicide. Recently, I was told a young man I once worked with at a bar had killed himself. From the outside, he appeared to have it all: […]
[…] he will mess up and I will overdose. I cannot stand the thought of going through this again. This is for me — someone who has attempted suicide. I am so exhausted from trying to be “normal” that I can’t stand it anymore. My brain is on overdrive. I don’t want to die, I […]
[…] four years in the light before slowly, without me noticing, it began to dim. It dimmed and dimmed until I lost track that it was fading. My suicide attempt scared me, because I don’t remember what happened. It scared my parents and my grad school too. I was placed on medical leave and returned […]
[…] anorexia. After I was discharged from the eating disorder unit for the second time, my company dismissed me, and I collapsed into a severe depression and attempted suicide. After even more suffering, and another attempt at my life, I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). By then, I was 29 years old. […]
[…] this child — or the other 10 she lost to the system long ago. At age five, the child of my heart spoke of dying by suicide. I shouldn’t have been surprised because he’d heard it from his birth mom daily, but it broke my heart in a million tiny pieces. After an […]
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