Trace -- you know from my posts that my daughter was hospitalized twice in 2016. Both times were for suicide attempts. I am so thankful that each attempt was unsuccessful, and devastated that she was in so much emotional pain that she preferred death over life. I continue the fight (mainly internal) to keep her safe while her PDoc continues to work to find the right combo of meds for her, and her therapist works with her to find a path in life. At this point her diagnosis isn't 100% clear. She came out of her hospitalization after her October attempt with a diagnosis of Bipolar 2 and Anxiety disorder. After her first attempt in March of 2016 she came out with diagnosis of MDD and Anxiety. Her regular PDoc isn't convinced she's Bipolar, but has kept her on the mood stabilizer just in case. She's been in a major depression since she was released and he is working to find the meds to bring her out of that. Her depression has lightened some, but "we still aren't there". Luckily, she hasn't had any major side-effects from her meds. She's resistant to the more common Antidepressants.
Her first attempt, she did leave a note, but not for the second one. I honestly don't know which was worse no note, or finding the note. I'm just glad she's still here.
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"Do you know what’s really scary? You want to forget something. Totally wipe it off your mind. But you never can. It can’t go away, you see. And… and it follows you around like a ghost."
~ A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon) (2003)
"I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I’ve always felt that I wasn’t a member of any particular group."
~ Anne Rice
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