Suicide Awareness

My condolences to the parents, sisters, family and friends of Edward Judas Aguirre. May Edward be welcomed into paradise, where there will be no sorrow, no weeping, no pain. Where there is a fullness of peace and joy. May his memory be a blessing. Edward’s family has given me the…

I leave it all behind me because if I don’t, I know I’ll slip back into that dark void that I’ve been trying to avoid. I leave it behind me because I have no reason to look back on the pain that plagued my life. I leave it behind me…

I hung up on your mom when she informed me of your suicide. It was April Fool’s Day and I had been white knuckling through my third day of sobriety. I thought, what a fucked up joke, and sat perturbed on my tiled kitchen floor. Mrs. Blackwell, I’m sorry, but…

I’ve gone bankrupt, lost my home, my business, my car, my girlfriend and even my goats. It sucks, it really does. I’m sure there’s a lot of people out there right now that are hurting bad. What’s happening sucks! I’m right there with you. Maybe, you’ve even lost everything. But…

I see you, counting out your pills, to see if you have enough. Checking your calendar so your plan to quietly slip away causes the least fuss, the minimum of inconvenience. Oh, everyone says that it’s so awful when people decide to leave, but you remember — you remember when…

Depression deserves it’s own color scale, just like terrorism and covid. Because one minute you are just gliding along at baseline depression, and then all of a sudden you tumble into a Red area (that is really more like black.) Although we live in a world that is priding itself…

This article is going to just have some thoughts and talking about the topics of suicide and depression. There might be some trigger warnings for people who have experienced this or have witnessed it BUT I want this to be an article of hope for someone who might be struggling…