Samuel L. Jackson Saved My Life

Surprise: There will be cussing.

Samuel L. Jackson — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I rarely start my articles off with trigger warnings, but in this case, I felt I should.

There will be a discussion of some heavy topics here, including abuse, neglect, and suicide. If that sort of thing is something you’d rather not read about as you drink your morning coffee or ready yourself for bed, that’s okay. No one is…