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Suicide Awareness and Prevention
Too many lives have been lost to the tragedy of suicide. Join me in the fight to raise awareness and save lives.
I hope that this page can make some difference.
I'm speaking as someone who has been there and also as someone who has lost friends to suicide. There is hope even though you may not see it.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
This is an excellent resource if you need a place to turn, but aren't sure who to talk to. Sometimes, it helps to get someone who isn't close to the situation to bring you back from the dark place you're in.
It's also important to recognize the warning signs.
Threatening to hurt or kill oneself or talking about wanting to hurt or kill oneself.
Looking for ways to kill oneself by seeking access to firearms, available pills, or other means
Talking or writing about death, dying, or suicide when these actions are out of the ordinary for the person
Feeling hopeless
Feeling rage or uncontrolled anger or seeking revenge
Acting reckless or engaging in risky activities - seemingly without thinking
(These symptoms were taken from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline)
Suicide doesn't only take lives, it leaves them behind as well.
I found Survivors of Suicide to be a helpful network of those who are going through the same things you are going
through. Suicide is much different than any other kind of death. A life is taken too soon and we are left to wonder
why. Sometimes, we feel guilty. We feel sad, angry and confused. Having someone to talk to helps. There will always
be questions, "Why did they do it?" "Was there anything I could have done?" "Why didn't I see it?", that we'll never
have the answers to.
If this page saves one life, then one precious gift has been saved. If you are feeling suicidal, I urge you to seek help.
If you aren't comfortable talking to family and friends, then the website above has a hotline for you to call. Stop and
think about what you are doing. Not only are you taking a life, you are causing your loved ones pain and suffering.
Nothing is so horrible that it needs to end in suicide. There is always hope. The light at the end of the tunnel may
seem dim and far away, but it is there.
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