Sure, you’re giving space. But are you doing it right?
Giving space isn’t a line to use to get out of uncomfortable situations.
Giving space isn’t a line to use to get out of uncomfortable situations.
Once I started opening up, I really started healing.
The intersection of mental health and homelessness.
What I didn’t expect to experience while or after viewing the film was this wave of aliveness.
Losing someone to suicide is traumatic.
If suicidality leads to the belief we will not be missed, yet each person who dies by suicide is mourned intensely, then that belief has to be false.
Novels, shows, films, songs, and so on address a sensitive topic sometimes with layered nuance and other times with deeply misguided perceptions.
Imagine my surprise when he looked at me and said, “Well, if you were actually suicidal, you would have just done it.”
Stigma stated, “If you admit to having these thoughts, people will see you differently.”
The moment of intervention should not be a moment at all, but a collection of moments.
I think we’re all overwhelmed—at least on the inside—by what’s happening around us and being thrown at us on a daily basis.
Depression strips me of my identity. Recovery helps me find it again.
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