Dec 20, 2019 | PERSONAL STORIES
When I was 11 years old my father took his own life. He overdosed on his depression medication and alcohol, he was just 34 years old. I remember the day and the event vividly as if it were just last week, it’s been almost 41 years now. My younger sister was 8 and my...
Dec 20, 2019 | PERSONAL STORIES
I had just attended (a) suicide training about two days before seeing a client who described having previous thoughts of suicide. I asked her point blank if she had any recent thoughts of suicide/killing herself and she was genuinely pleased that I had taken the...
Dec 20, 2019 | PERSONAL STORIES
When I was in college I found my best friend dead in our dorm room. While my friends kept me going through the depression that followed, there was one moment however on the day after she passed that I had to go back into our dorm room to get clothes and show...
Dec 20, 2019 | PERSONAL STORIES
My story is when I was 15 I witnessed a friend’s brother jump up on a top of a car, the driver jerked the car back and forth and he hit the ground head first, blood everywhere… this was during a battle of the bands in a parking lot in upstate NY..I did not know it was...
Dec 20, 2019 | PERSONAL STORIES
I remember a few years ago I was really having a hard time with where I was in that point in my life. I hated where I was living, I was in a different city than my family, the boyfriend I moved there with treated me bad, I didn’t have many friends in this small town....
Recent Comments