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Comments What makes it hard for people to say: "At one point in my life I seriously thought about suicide"?
Posted by Barbara I believe it is because people are afraid of people thinking bad of them if they admit that they have felt a period of hopelessness.
Because suicide is viewed as a deep issue that denotes hopelessness and failure to live a "good" life. It also has extreme negative connotations in certain religious circles and is a "hot potato" topic.
What Kept You Alive?
Posted by Sandy I never did change the suicidal thinking and feelings. I fought them for many years because I could not leave my children to feel that I didn't love them enough to stay with them. God took the thoughts and feelings away. You can read about it at http://www.myspace.com/sandyscornerus
Posted by Fae I can't say I did it. It was a number of people who said and did things for me that got through my fog. When I was suicidal I felt there was no hope. I thought it was easier to die than to try to change all the things that were wrong. It seemed overwhelming to try. But I was able to change one thing at a time, a little bit, and that effort and the help of a Higher Power moved me forward. The thought of suicide still pops up as an option for me, but less so. It is easier, today, to eliminate it as an option. As I think you make clear in your book, suicidal thinking is the realization that something has to die. It just doesn't have to be me.
I believe that God is Life. It would be the ultimate negation of God, that ever creating energy that loved me in a way I could not. I had too much unfinished business.
In the early years it was that I could not leave this burden on my son, I needed to raise him, if nothing else. In the later years, I knew that if I would just go to sleep and tomorrow would give me a new perspective.
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There are at least 20 million people in the United States who have seriously considered suicide but have not killed themselves. That’s why I have coined the term Second Day persons. Second Day persons are those who have found deliverance from the grip of suicidal thinking In our own personal lives, there are many more Second Day persons living among us than we may realize. They worship beside us in our churches, synagogues, and mosques. They work beside us in our jobs. It would surprise us to discover them within our circle of friends or even within our own families. But they are surely there! I was having tea several days ago with a friend I had not spoken to for some time. When we finally settled ourselves at a table, I shared with her that I was working on this book and that I was a Second Day person. She looked at me with a sense of relief. “I, too, am a Second Day person,” she disclosed. Here is this week's question: What makes it hard for people to say, "At one point in my life, I seriously thought about suicide"? I will post your answers.
Are you a Second Day person? In the next hour, four persons in the United States will kill themselves. One of them will leave a note explaining why he or she found life too painful to continue living. In that same hour, millions more will think about killing themselves…and decide not to. Almost none of the latter will send someone a note explaining why he or she decided to live. I call this the missing note. The purpose of this website is to recover the missing notes and to discover what has helped keep people alive who are thinking about suicide. If you have come through the darkness of suicidal thinking, you are a Second Day person! I would like to ask you to share what kept you alive. I will post your answers on this website. Thanks. Now click on this link.
Fe Anam Avis
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