I wrote a piece today about the suicide of Jamie Raskin's son. It was personal. I survived suicide. Members of my family did not. Friends have not. For months I have been being treated for flooding PTSD. It has been a painful journey. Get help if you are in trouble. Please.
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The people who love you need you. YOU need you. Please stay here. Find help. Suicide is not the answer. đź’ś
A few years ago I wrote about my own experience of depression and suicide, and the larger story of writers, depression and suicide. A compelling long read in which I warn: "We must focus on the things that bring us closer to life, not further away." https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2014/08/bad-romance-writers-and-suicide/
Bad Romance: Writers and Suicide | Lambda Literary

"Writers have had a long, contentious, volatile romance with suicide. I searched them out in high school and then college, when my first book of poetry–grim and suicidal–was published. Like many...

https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2014/08/bad-romance-writers-and-suicide/
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