How I wish no one else would become a survivor of suicide loss. One suicide is one too many, and the pain it leaves behind ripples deep and wide and stays for years and years.
Tag: mental health
Perimenopause can happen in your early forties or younger, and it can show as anxiety or brain fog. It’s more than hot flashes, and it can show up earlier than you thought it would.
I left the funeral with a heart filled with grief and a head filled with the enormous, urgent task of calling on all of us – parents, guardians, adults, humans of the world – to take care of the children…
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To say that 2020 has been a different and difficult year is an understatement. In the weeks approaching Christmas, I started to feel some excitement […] Read More
Dear Friend, I’ve lit a candle for you today as I’ve done in the past six anniversaries, today included. Do you see it, how it’s […] Read More
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In September 2013, after my friend’s suicide, I began a quest to understand depression. This was my attempt at making sense of what seemed to […] Read More
Joana and Emmanuel were young and in love. Barely out of their teens, they had their first child. Soon after, they got married and eventually […] Read More