Posts Tagged ‘suicide prevention’
When Suicide Prevention Involves Your Own Teen
Suicide prevention becomes personal when your own teen is at risk. Here’s what to look for and how to help.
Read MoreWhat to Do with Thoughts of Self-Harm
It can start with a bad day, a bad breakup, fighting with a friend or family member, or so many other external things. Perhaps more often, it starts internally, when the chemicals in our brain become imbalanced. Depression doesn’t need a reason, it just is. One day we’re fine, the next day depression is there.…
Read MoreWhat is Suicidal Ideation?
If you or someone you know are having thoughts of suicide, it must be taken seriously. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 immediately. The current generation is more willing than any before to take on and talk about taboo subjects, going as far as making jokes or sarcastic expressions out of certain subjects.…
Read MoreThe Value of a Life
You feel so alone, so worthless. The word depression does not begin to describe where you are at right now. So many negative thoughts. Perhaps you even think that the world would be better off without you. But that’s where you are wrong. It may feel impossible to see when you are so depressed, but…
Read MoreWhy Should I Stay?
When you are depressed, the world slowly fades into the darkness, and there is only you. You and loneliness, darkness, worthlessness. Everything becomes a chore, even basic things like eating and sleeping don’t matter. Your mind is telling you that you don’t matter, that people would be better off without you. In this moment, you…
Read MoreAn Experiential Family Approach to Healing BPD
We were huddled around a bonfire during a heat wave in July. Julie’s mother was holding an empty bottle of painkillers in her hand. She raised the bottle and held it over the flames. I had led scores of burning ceremonies for students over the years, but I’d never had a parent spontaneously participate before.…
Read MoreWhen the Darkness Won’t Go Away
Depression is so sinister. It creeps in with negative thoughts, and without any warning, those thoughts almost go viral in our minds. Without even knowing what is going on, we are suddenly feeling lonely, then empty, then numb. Then just dark. A cold, empty, lifeless darkness that won’t go away. No one should ever have…
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