Suicide Prevention Letters (Reasons to Stay)

StarryEyed

Wow you're so expressive. So beautifully open.

A black hole. Yeah. Whether it's impossibly fast or a black hole or zero gravity, I think we're saying the same that it's a sense of complete disconnect from reality and from who we are normally. So alone. So foreign. So helpless. And that's why like you say it's so very important to reach out. But it's so hard to reach out when you feel like an alien and so hopeless. So that's one of the things I do when well - work on a very amazing circle of loving, caring friends and family - including here on the forum. And that includes supporting them too. All my close friends and family know about my mental health struggles. Do yours?

It's my belief too that there's an element of luck as to whether or not you're 'spit back' from the black hole into this dimension. You've written it so beautifully with such a graphic image. Depending on the day, I might call that good luck or bad luck. One thing I believe is it's quite likely like Russian roulette - the more you play in that dimension, your odds of returning diminish.

Isn't it unbelievable how much our insides and outsides change merely with a shift in perspective?

Sending you much warmth and encouragement. ❤️

StarryEyed

Here is the story by the BBC about the Reasons to Stay website, which is based in England. This is an interview with the founder Ben West whose brother Sam West died by suicide at the age of 15.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9znln4p18o