A Plea And An Offer To Every Overwhelmed College Student

I’ve been shocked and saddened by the number of student suicide stories I’ve read in the news over the past few years, almost all from big name schools like Penn and Cornell. As of last night, we now have 11 suicides at Penn alone…

He Was Suicidal. I Was Scared.

I was 3,000 miles away and I knew he was days away. Days away from taking his life and ending our friendship in the most heartbreaking way possible. Every phone call during those months I feared would be our last and I would hang on for a little bit longer to make sure he…

25 out of 100.

She’s turning 25, a quarter century. She didn’t realise she would make it this far. She thought her depression would get the best of her. The constant struggle of contemplating suicide after life’s every hit, failure and heartbreak, she thought, would eventually lead her to kicking the bucket.

Your mind is a rare gem. I’m glad you didn’t die.

I have so many questions for you:

We’re you abused as a child?

I say this because I wonder when the darkness arrived?

This could have been my story…..

I hear the words. But they have little relationship to the kids I work with. All abused. All HIV. All hauntingly suicidal. All school failures. All prostitutes. All. All. All. I used…

Your post provoked in me a memory.

In 2008, I prolonged the life of an inventor who was on the brink of suicide. He told people that I saved him from death. I never made a big deal of it but to him (his name is David Webster), he regarded me as a saint. He had a picture of me on his desk and told me that it helped him stay…

THE ROPE AROUND YOUR NECK U PUT THERE

You. You, I’m talking to You.

The Distance of 365 Days

A year ago today, a Polaroid photograph was taken of me wearing a pink lycra and spandex bandage mini-dress. I only got to see it once but I remember being pleasantly surprised that even though I smiled big, my face hadn’t scrunched up and away from the kind of sex appeal I sought in…