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Knowing what you are struggling with specifically can aide in your treatment.

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We need to remember this: People are not taking their own lives because of the attention they’ll get when they’re dead. People are taking their own lives because THEY DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE.

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I bond with those who talk about their mental health struggles, who don’t act like robots or carbon cut outs of what a person should be. But most importantly, those who wear their hearts on their sleeves.

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No matter how much society has claimed to be enlightened, people still don’t understand what it is to be depressed, suicidal, anxious, or mentally ill.

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“The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very loveable.”

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I wish I could make sense of your mind
the way I’ve always been able to make sense of my own.
Thoughts that slide so easily into poetry, into neat lines
and verses and words with a rhythm, calculated and perfect.