With it being National Suicide Prevention Month, I want those of you struggling with depression to know that you do not have to struggle in silence, and there are many tools available to help you. I am privileged to have a partnership with the best wellness center out there, Aspen Valley, which is full of other amazing health practitioners. Many of which are therapists that specialize in depression and anxiety. We also offer other tools to further support your mental health like neurofeedback and oxygen therapy. And if you don't know by now, what you eat significantly impacts your mental health. (That's where I come in). It's why you often hear me say "food becomes mood." Please know that you are not alone. You are supported. You are seen. You are loved. #youmatter
Ok, so it’s suicide awareness/prevention month and this Friday I’m participating in another market but this time is lgbtq+ and anti-capacitist
So I want to do in this 3 days before the event a fanzine about mental health, but I’m not sure how to do it, like I’m part of the community in both things so that’s isn’t an issue.
Like I have bpd, ed, non specific dissociative disorder and I was in a mental hospital and had ptsd
So there are a lot of things that I wanna say, my question is: what would help you to understand and prevent suicide happening? I don’t want it to be like so academic and with hard words or a lot of numbers, maybe just a few(?
I want to draw something(maybe a fanzine with drawings that I did when I was in a mental hospital and add psychiatric reports not in a way that their word is the most important, more in a way that explains what was my experience, also I want to criticize the transphobia
I don’t know, could you help me?
What would help you to feel understood? And what would you want your family/friends that don’t understand to read?
I want to tell my story. I don't do this for pity. I just want to show that there are hundreds of thousands of stories about trying to die, and this problem is significant. To understand the situation, I would like to say that I always dress well, joke a lot and participate in conferences. I don't come across as someone with a lot of problems. It all started in elementary school. I was a victim of bullying. I was alone against 20 people. I began to consider myself ugly and weak, and from that time on I almost never take pictures of myself. When I entered 7th grade, my friend started cutting herself. She said it distracted her from her worries. In the winter of 2020, after a quarrel with my parents, I took scissors in my hands for the first time and cut the skin on my wrist 3 times. In the fall of 2021, I fell into a depressed state and cut all my hands, I mutilated myself with everything: a knife, scissors, a sharpener, lids... Since then I have been cutting myself almost every day. Moreover, I had suicide attempts, not 2 or 3. With my story, I want to say that a person who always jokes and receives certificates and cups every year may be on the verge of despair. Don't judge a book by its cover and be considerate of others.
I am a survivor. I was probably in middle school the first time I attempted to take my life. Decades later I still wrestle with this affliction. Here are some things I've learned through my journey that I hope can help if you find yourself in this place.
🔶️Tell someone.
There is no Valor in suffering silently. People can't help you if they don't know.
🔶️Recognize your patterns.
I tend to get in a funk around Christmas and my birthday. Know this and prepare for it. Fill your time intentionally with people and things that lift your spirit.
🔶️Surround yourself with a support system
God puts people in your life to help you. You might even be surprised with who God will use. Your friends and family care about you and it's important to reach out to them. Isolation is a breeding ground for ugly thoughts that can lead you further down the spiral.
🔶️Don't trust your mind until it's healed.
Some of these thoughts are not yours. The enemy has had ample time to fill your mind with lies- recognize them and do not believe them. Remember the truth: you matter, you have a purpose, you are loved, and you are needed.
🔶️Take a break
Tune out negative people or things. Take a break from social media. Rest. Spend a day in bed if you need to, but get up the next day. Take a vacation that actually feels like a vacation. Take a mental health day off work. Do something good for you. That can look like resting, cleaning, catching up on laundry, getting a hair cut, visiting a loved one, treating yourself, or whatever relieves the overwhelm.
🔶️Do your best
Sometimes your best is simply getting out of bed. Take it as a win. To the best of your ability, keep doing the things the healthier you would do. Get ready for the day, groom yourself, and do the things you can. If you let yourself fall into a rut, it's easy to stay there. It may not be easy, but try your best to keep up your energy to keep doing the things you need to do. Show yourself love for continuing to show up.
🔶️Do all the things. Your efforts are not futile.
Go to church, read/listen to self help books, listen to encouraging music, tedtalks, sermons. See a doctor, seek counseling, take your medicine, take vitamins, drink water, eat healthier, exercise, go to bed early, get in nature, spend time with loved ones. Go to self-help classes, read the Bible, go to Bible studies, pray, fast, ask others to pray for you, learn about God's love for you.
🔶️Seek out the roots
Do the work to understand why you are the way you are, why you do the things you do, and why you think the things you think. When did this start and what are your triggers. It won't be easy, but the revelation of these things will open up the path to healing. You will begin to understand yourself and find ways to avoid the traps. This is where breakthrough happens.
🔶️Give yourself grace
You are still here. You have made it through the hard things and there may be more to come. But you are a fighter.
You are human. Only you feel your experiences and live in your body and mind. No one else can truly know how hard you work to be here. Take one day at a time. It's ok if you take one step forward and two steps back. Celebrate your victories. Know it is worth it. God doesn't waste anything and trust that He will give you beauty from your ashes.
SUICIDE AWARENESS QUOTE 2 OF 3
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
"Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind."
- Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
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Cold weather has started, and so has my depression. My little pick-me-up is having pretty nails. And there's no better set to use than Open Hearts, a suicide prevention awareness set with the awareness colors (purple and teal) with ribbons and hearts. While I may no longer actively struggle with suicidal thoughts, I still get them and I'm not ashamed about my long road of recovery I've endured with my mental disorders.
You are not alone.
Every 40 seconds someone dies from a suicide. With more awareness that can change.
Know the signs:
🚨 immediate risk🚨
Talking about wanting to die or to kill oneself
Looking for a way to kill oneself, such as searching online or obtaining a gun
Talking about feeling hopeless or having no reason to live
⚠️serious risk⚠️
Talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain
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There will be countless days and nights where you’ll feel that you are just an another name for pain and agony, and it’s okay to cry your heart out and shed for tears that you can’t get a hold of. Life isn’t always full of rainbows and butterflies, or of gummy bears and candy pops, but when hardships lure you on the edge of an abyss, please choose to give your life a chance to have a good fight, and surely you will see . . . that it’s always worth the shot.
the only person who sees what’s going on is me
outside of my body
watching me walk this world alone; unattended to
why can no one else see?
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i deserve my imprisonment in the internal darkness
all the sorrow no one cares to see
why don’t they notice me? Isn’t it obvious?
i hate this feeling
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i’m alone. So maybe if I got rid of me
i’ll no longer be a problem.
it’ll surely not be their…
Added to my to-do list today We all know mental health difficulties can be experienced by everyone in our society, and that often you cannot see those difficulties when you look at someone. Yet services will still look at how someone is presenting and due to masking, autistic girls are often overlooked or dismissed Has anyone else watched Chris Packham’s documentary? Repost from @suicidepreventionsociety • Powerful and raw, and so terribly true. This hit me really hard. This is one of the reasons I started the Autistic Book Club, I wanted to do what I could for the Autistic Community. To create a place where Autistic people could go, from anywhere in the world and be welcomed and understood. But we need more. We need society to understand us. Chris Packham’s, ‘Inside Our Autistic Minds’ is the documentary that was mentioned. It’s on BBC2 in the UK. I can’t comment because it’s not available where I live, but there is a lot of discussion about it on Twitter, nearly all good so far. Cre: @autisticbookclub . . . #suicide #suicideprevention #suicidepreventionmonth (at BBC 2) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpZtK4KsVHX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
too many orange bottles
too many black eyes
too many lost bullets
too many soft cries
too many gray needles
too many red lines
too many packed boxes
too many missed signs
too many last letters
too many neckties
too many cold voices
too many goodbyes
too many used razors
too many case files
too many funerals
not enough smiles