#StartAConversation, Mental health

How To Prevent Your Own Suicide

“Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.” ~ Joseph Conrad Obligatory Disclaimer: I am not a qualified mental health professional. Or even an unqualified one. I am not a health care professional of any kind.… Continue reading How To Prevent Your Own Suicide

Mental health, Mental Health & Wellbeing

Reasons To Keep Going

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche So, I've noticed that a few people have arrived here over the last few weeks via Google searches relating to thoughts of suicide. I always feel a bit weird when these things show up in… Continue reading Reasons To Keep Going

Mental health, Mental Health & Wellbeing

We Need To Talk About Suicide

(Image Credit) “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the… Continue reading We Need To Talk About Suicide