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National Suicide Prevention Day

9/10/2015

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Today is #NationalSuicidePreventionDay.

I participate in a lot of social media's hashtag-national-this-or-that-days. #NationalPizzaDay #NationalDonutDay #NationalHugYourCatDay?? I'm there, on Instagram, stuffing my face or clutching my cats (who are desperately trying to escape). But none are so important to me as this day. Because you can tell from my feed that I love food and I'm obsessed with my cats, but what you don't see, and may not know, is that I suffered from Anxiety and Depression in my twenties, so deep and dark that I didn't want to get out of bed. That's an understatement. There were days I did not want to live.

I wasn't on social media, then. I wonder if my 'presence' would have been any different. We all want people to see how much fun we're having, how incredible we look, and share the wonderful thing we saw or read or learned. There is nothing wrong with that. That is one of the great things about social media, the other is the ability to create awareness.

My point is that SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE can help, wants to help, will help. That person may not know you're hurting, eventhough it seems impossible to you that they couldn't. Think of all the times you hear about someone taking their own life, and thinking, "But they seemed fine..."

So, ASK. Ask for help. Call a friend, a family member or call a professional. GET HELP. You can feel better. No matter what your situation, you CAN feel better. And if you are someone who can help; do it. Offer a kind word, a hand, or a smile, and spread awareness.

The number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is: tel:+18002738255



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Jenni Pilcher
9/10/2015 17:22:46

beautifully written. And very brave. Love this.

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Salman Mohammad link
11/30/2016 09:00:10

Very well said and very nice thoughts. Instead of celebrating silly kind of days we should put our energy on some real issues.
Just on thing to share, japan has the highest ratio of suicide why ? Because they don't believe in God or any religion. It's better to have one..!
Bye ...

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C. Michael Turner
3/4/2017 13:25:59

Something sometimes forgotten, a simple lack of sunlight, lack of Vitamin D3, can deepen depression or lead to depression. We used to work outside and store vitamin D during the summer, lifestyles over time changed and a lack of vitamin D can also be partly to blame, it is easily found in most food and health stores, pharmacies, etc.

Different subject: Nikki, are you interested in understanding how the universe really works? and with that, seeing how it is possible to create a communication system which can link two times together even though one is on mars and one on earth, they can talk to each other like they are talking on two cell phones on Earth, no time delay in the earth to mars connection.

If you like science fiction, you might also like yet to be discovered science fact... it changes everything.....
C. Michael
I love cats two but I have never had a two way bond more so than with my Australian Shepered- bear

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