stories, lived experiences, and strategies

This blog is dedicated to sharing lived experiences, stories of interventions, and practical suicide prevention and intervention strategies. Lived experiences are real stories shared by people who have either thought about/attempted suicide or have survived the loss of a suicide. There are also stories of successful and failed interventions. Since these can be triggering in nature, they will all begin with "Lived Experience" or "Intervention Tale".

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Lived Experience: I didn't feel like I had a choice.

Rikki Turner

Nov 25, 2020
2 min

Lived Experience: I didn't feel like I had a choice.

I have attempted twice in my life and both times when I was trying to decide if I could continue living, all I remember feeling was complete loneliness. I felt like I had no one to turn to and no one to talk to. If hindsight I know how wrong I was. Both times I attempted, I did the same thing. I have always had medical issues so I always had access to some strong drugs and both times I took a lot of pills. The first time, I was being bullied by my so-called friends and I fel

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