Week Twenty Three

Week Twenty Two

Throwback to Week Two's Playlist

Each year, 800,000 people commit suicide. Chester Bennington of Linkin Park passed away this week from an apparent suicide.  

Depression knows no boundaries and affects people from all walks of life.

If you or someone you know are depressed or contemplating suicide, seek help. In this moment, life may seem very dark and without possibility, but there are options & there can be better days ahead in time once you take the first step & seek help.

Here are some resources to get help...

If you are in a crisis and need immediate help:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/suicide-prevention/if-you-are-in-crisis-and-need-immediate-help.shtml

Contemplating Suicide?
Call the toll-free, 24-hour hotline of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) to be connected to a trained counselor at a suicide crisis center nearest you.

Depression or Other Mental Illnesses:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/index.shtml

Reach out to friends, family, a spiritual adviser and / or therapist ~ there is a place in the world for you even if you can't see it in this moment. You'll find it...so stick around.

#suicideprevention 

Week Twenty One

Week Twenty

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. 

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.” - Edith Sitwell

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing 

as it is, without prior rules about what it should be." ~ Bob Dylan