mteigm
Member
First post on this thread. From what I read, I don’t think it is being picked apart. I also don’t think we should refer to it as ‘it’. It is making more of a stigma around mental health and suicide. I, as a person who has lost three family members to suicide, know all to well that instead of brushing it under the carpet and attaching a stigma of shame to people who suffer with mental health and end their lives because they feel so helpless, that we should speak about it and make it less of a taboo subject. Suicide is the most horrific thing any family can go through, having gone through it three times and living with it every day it really upsets me to see people refusing to talk about suicide and telling others to have that chat somewhere else.Absolutely. That is far too personal and tragic to be picked apart here.
RIP to this young boy; a prosperous life ahead of him. ‘Goodbyes hurt the most when the story was not finished…’. Forever young.
And to anyone reading this who is suffering with their mental health; please reach out. I can promise you that the pain you are enduring is nothing compared to the devastation you would leave behind if you chose to take your own life. Those unanswered ‘what if’s’ and ‘why’s’ keep me awake most nights.
Please, please, please remember you are not alone. It’s okay to not be okay. And, remember:
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
Suicide helplines:
Samaritans 116123 [24 hour service]
Pieta 1800 247 247 [24 hour service]
Text 3TS to 50808 to start the conversation [24 hour service]
Childline 1800 66 66 66 [24 hour service]