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Suicide is About Wanting to Live

The Paradox of Suicidal Thinking

3 min readMar 28, 2024

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It’s Selfish to Say That Suicide is Selfish

The selflessness of learning about suicide

3 min readMay 22, 2024

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It’s Selfish to Say That Suicide is Selfish

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I Think About Suicide A Lot

Suicide prevention and the silencing of stigma

3 min read1 hour ago

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I Think About Suicide A Lot

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It’s Extremely Painful to Wrestle With a Brain Screaming at You That You’re Better Off Dead

Suicidal thinking and wanting to live

4 min read4 days ago

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It’s Extremely Painful to Wrestle With a Brain Screaming at You That You’re Better Off Dead

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You’re Gaslighting Yourself

Bipolar and discovering the real you

4 min readJun 12, 2024

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You’re Gaslighting Yourself

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The Pulse of My Grief

A poem for Dad

1 min readJun 12, 2024

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The Pulse of My Grief

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We Need To Talk About Suicide

Have a conversation so people don’t kill themselves

5 min readJun 7, 2024

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We Need To Talk About Suicide

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A Day in the Life of a Therapist Intern With Anxiety

A story idea for a ghostwriting gig I didn’t get

4 min readJun 6, 2024

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A Day in the Life of a Therapist Intern With Anxiety

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I Don’t Know WTF I’m Doing, Cool

Going rogue from the status quo for self-care: the bipolar edition

4 min readJun 4, 2024

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I Don’t Know WTF I’m Doing, Cool

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Not Knowing Which Is the Real Me

A poem about my bipolar written before I got my bipolar diagnosis

3 min readJun 4, 2024

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odawni

I’m a Filipina-American mental health writer and toddler mom. I mostly focus on suicide, depression and living with bipolar disorder. @bipolar.brained on IG.

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