Suicide

September is suicide prevention month.  This past September was extremely difficult to watch the posts through social media.  It angered me.  It is angering to listen to people constantly say things about how they would help, or how they would behave different if this person would just speak up.  After a person dies, whether they took their own life or another tragic reason, people always seems to act as though they would have done things different if they had only known.  How would we behave if we knew?  If we knew that someone we loved would be gone tomorrow, what would we do different?  The sad thing is, when it comes to suicide and mental illness, you wouldn't do anything different.  A person doesn't know WHAT to do.  How do you act when you know someone is suicidal?  Most likely, you don't take it serious.  Most likely, all those feelings that you feel after the fact, would not have been there beforehand.  People don't know what to do, or what to say.  Suicide is taboo for anyone that is not suicidal.  PLUS, what do you say or what do you do with a person that is this way?  It's hard to be a around a person like this and the truth is..... let me say this boldly for all those that might have someone in their life threatening such a tragic thing.  A PERSON WHO IS SUICIDAL WILL NOT AND I REPEAT WILL NOT THREATEN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A PERSON WHO IS TRULY SUICIDAL, WILL NOT TELL YOU IN ADVANCE!

So for all you people that have a manipulative and cunning person in your life who abuses you over and over again by threatening suicide, most likely, the threat is as far as it will go.

Why?  WHY doesn't a suicidal person speak up?  BECAUSE, clearly, that person feels alone.  That person feels so far from loved and cared about that why talk about it?   Talking about it will only solidify the loneliness we feel.  BECAUSE, people don't know what to do.  It's taboo, it's weird, it's uncomfortable.  Suicide prevention month is STUPID!  Let's quit having a month where we all pretend that we would be different if we only knew!!  There are suicidal people all around us and trust me, they are telling you.  They are telling you in the best way they know how.