They ask if I saw signs of my son’s suicide. I watched, worried, acted. He came back to himself. Six months later he’s gone. Sometimes there’s nothing to see.
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Tag: mental illness
Forgiveness is a word people hand you like a pamphlet. They press it into your hands and walk away as if they have done something.…
“Worse, it sometimes feels like he wasn’t loved.” – Can I forgive when people do not talk about my deceased child?
I don’t believe suicide is as preventable as we’ve been told. If intervention is possible, it should never fall on the person who is struggling the most. What makes this more complex and heartbreaking: There are no reliable signs.
At this time, five years ago, I was sitting in a movie theater with my son, Caleb, watching Avengers: Infinity War. We laughed and joked…
Enough already! I have had it. I am in several Christian forums online and the question often arises if suicide is a sin. The medieval…
I have a hard time wrapping my brain around Caleb being gone for three years. The time is simultaneously like yesterday and an eternity. I…
Quit saying you don’t have time. You have time for what you make time for in life. – Bryant McGill Offering to listen, especially impersonally…
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness month. When I urge individuals to talk with their friends and family about suicide, I am not on some…
Twenty-six months today Caleb died. Did this occur to you today when you woke up? His absence occurs to me every day. While I do…