Voices
“Have you heard of the Call of the Void?”
Topic: suicide
“Have you heard of the Call of the Void?”
The day before I tried to end my life I wrote that my children, stories, and music were what kept me going.
700,000 people die by suicide globally each year. It is an epidemic. We want to change the numbers. We want another day with you.
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My best advice for you is to ask for help.
I saw no future for myself. I truly did not believe that life was worth living.
I was in therapy for fifteen weeks, called the crisis line six times, and made one attempt to stop the pain. But these numbers are not the ones that define my experience.
Today I thought about the ways I could kill myself. A mental list formed in my mind.
In life, there are often times when we don’t always know what to do or say.
July 27, 2019, began as an unremarkable summer day.
When I was 27, I downed a bottle of sleeping pills.
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