Recent Posts Tagged With 'suicide'

• Suicide is NOT Painless

  Posted on Thursday August 7th, 2008 at 17:45 in Mental Illness, encouragement, suicide, prevention, attempt, self liberation, crisis line

  Sometime toward the end of February, I swallowed a fifth of gin and two boxes of sleeping pills. Some people would call this a cry for help, but it was more of an honest attempt to just not be here anymore. I remember drinking the gin. I remember swa...

• Where I’ve Been

  Posted on Sunday February 10th, 2008 at 14:55 in Mental Illness, mental health, suicide, personal experiences, psychiatrist, psychicatric ward

  As I mentioned in my last comment on my previous post, I just got out of the hospital, where I spent a delightful (for various values of “delightful”) week in the local funny farm, aka the GaGa Hilton, aka the Muppet Motel, aka the psych ...

• Unfettered Fridays: Suicide Is Painless

  Posted on Saturday December 8th, 2007 at 00:20 in death, suicide, fear, personal experiences, unfettered fridays

  When I was 20 years old, I tried to commit suicide by swallowing an extremely large amount of a certain pill. This may seem like a strange statement to make at the beginning of a post dedicated to something I’ve done to overcome a personal shor...