please read~

[mpete]

I wrote this in response to Elise committing suicide with the hope that it will help someone: Please pass it along if you feel it can help anyone you know:

So many of us are good at making everyone think that everything is ok when it's really not. We have been taught that having problems is a weakness. But please, if you are hurting inside, it feels like the wolves are pounding your door down, you know you are that "straw away from breaking" ... please tell someone ... get help. If you hurt yourself you only leave all of us behind wondering for the rest of our lives "what if I would've called that day" ... "what if I ............."

[beccachow]

Excellent post, mpete.

[Ranger]

Amen!

[nehimama]

Thank you.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Many of us have been depressed and have experience with coming back out of it. We *understand* the feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. We can help.

Huggs,
Alice

[Sonshine]

It's also up to all of us to watch for signs. I have been suicidal. I made one attempt at suicide years ago. All my friends told the doctors that they had no idea. I was always so happy. He told them that was the first sign. NO ONE is happy all the time. Another sign is a person will try to tie up lose ends. If they are suddenly thanking everyone for their help or apologizing to anyone they feel they have wronged.

[Oat Bucket Farm]

Well said.