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Originally Posted by 1stepatatime
Hey,GT
It is not my intention to make you feel guilty....know that!!  As painful as this topic is for me, I will talk about this tragedy if it can help people to understand the aftermath. You are taking a step in the right direction....you are talking to others....keep on 
I'm not trying to sound cliche but there really is a light at the end of the tunnel....always keep that in the front of your mind....and I speak from my own experiences with depression...it sucks to be in it...but we have to do some hard work in order to heal....I'm slowly navigating my way through, as are so many others!!
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Thank you for sharing your story. I can't imagine how painful that must have been to experience and I just can't justify doing that to the people that do care about me.
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Originally Posted by A Red Panda
growli: Don't feel guilty for thinking your thoughts and feeling your feelings. Use these stories to help you when times are at their toughest - because we never really know who will be affected by us leaving. And by knowing other's experiences... can act as a reminder that there's going to be SOMEONE who is deeply affected by your leaving.
That's what I do. One of my (many) reasons for going in to teaching? It's an excellent suicide-prevention-plan for myself. I cannot STAND the idea of even possibly affecting any of my students by commiting suicide. The thought makes me feel sick. So.. even at my worst? I know that I can't and won't act on the urges. I can't take that risk with my students.
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Thank you. Even though I really don't have a family that treats me the way they should, I am fortunate to have some very good friends and I know if I were to kill myself, I'd kill them too. Maybe not literally, but I know they would be devastated if I died. For example, one of my closest friends has lost most of everyone that was close to her to cancer. I just can't add myself to the list of people she was close to that died. I care too much about her to take someone else from her. My other close friends depend on me for emotional support too and every time I consider doing it, I just imagine them finding out about it and I can't do it. I know a couple of them at least would blame themselves for not stopping me and I just can't put them through that. I care about their happiness more than mine right now.