Personal Stories
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The Knock At The Door
I’m a quiet person. I mainly keep to myself. I have social anxiety and some depression and so I stay home a lot. I’m not sad all the time and I feel...
The Loss Of My Brother
When I was in 8th grade, on February 2, 2009 my brother committed suicide. He was 16 years old and a junior in high school. It is important that people are...
A Friend Got Me Through
10 years ago I found out my husband of 20 years was having an affair with a co-worker, and our marriage was over. Words can’t describe the pain, anger,...
The Teacher
Teenaged years can be difficult. Your life, in these years strongly revolves around peer groups and being accepted. It isn’t easy. Compounding problems at...
Carbon Dioxide
Depression is like carbon dioxide. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it, but too much of it can zap the life out of you. I’m just coming out of a 4 year...
The Community
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...
One Question
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...
The Police Officer
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...
PTSD Destroys Families
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,...
Godfather
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...