Whether you are struggling with depression, overwhelming anxiety, or are feeling like you just want everything to stop, there are many resources for you to reach out to. Take a deep breath. Let your emotions subside and take steps to give yourself another chance at living a healthier life. 

Too many people choose suicide to end the pain, the difficulties, or the fear in their lives. Too many people believe that this is the only option to manage the pain that they feel inside. Why?

Many people have been taking care of others – putting others first – for as long as they can remember. They have learned that their “place” in the world is to provide care and ease the pain of others. It is rewarding in itself and it has become a way of life. Others feel like they are the ones that are always needing to be taken care of. They do not like being a burden. Others have excruciating physical or psychological pain that doesn’t seem like it will ever end. 

Whether you have been hurt, have hurt others, or don’t know why you have the thought that you would be better off dead, please keep reading. A moment of emotional impulsivity can not only end up costing you your life, but can create pain in others who love you for the rest of their lives. 

Pain doesn’t diminish over time. It is an energy that can get stuck inside you until you do something about it. It doesn’t change until you change it. Pain will “build up” inside. Pain can cause you to not understand why you feel and respond and think the way that you do. 

That’s when people begin to feel hopeless and powerless. Powerlessness is one of the most frustrating, scary, and maddening feelings that humans experience. When things are happening inside your head and heart and you don’t understand, that’s when you feel or believe that you are “crazy”. When others don’t understand you, when they blame or judge you, that’s when the pain becomes overwhelming and seemingly too much to handle.  

That’s when you need to reach out the most. 

I promise you, someone, somewhere has a very similar story and has been able to figure out how to work through the pain. It’s like when you are stuck in a fire, and someone else reaches out a hand, wouldn’t you take it so that they can then pull you out? So that you can breathe fresh air again?

Just reach out. Take that hand. Make the call. YOU are worth it.