tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572878393350853164.post4217702587769967681..comments2023-06-26T09:51:34.582-05:00Comments on down from the ledge...postcards from the edge of suicide: Life is pain, and other life lessons from House.downfromtheledgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02324597207878500097noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572878393350853164.post-1325289924100168542012-07-12T22:12:26.450-05:002012-07-12T22:12:26.450-05:00Just knowing that WE ARE NOT ALONE is a first step...Just knowing that WE ARE NOT ALONE is a first step out of the darkness. Thanks for stopping by.downfromtheledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02324597207878500097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572878393350853164.post-21888572166376075892012-07-12T21:49:50.441-05:002012-07-12T21:49:50.441-05:00It is quite the contradiction. I also think a lot...It is quite the contradiction. I also think a lot about the fact that we didn't get to choose whether or not we wanted to be brought into this world, or what we'll be forced to endure while here. <br /><br />I also find it troubling when people attempt to "help" someone by focusing on how much they mean to others, how it would affect others if they were gone...because it completely changes the focus from that person's struggle to somebody else's feelings. The message is: what you're going through doesn't matter. Just another way in which we're not allowed our own feelings.downfromtheledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02324597207878500097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572878393350853164.post-25238932918817284362012-05-29T03:43:18.392-05:002012-05-29T03:43:18.392-05:00i don't know who you are, what you do, where a...i don't know who you are, what you do, where are you live. i visit your blog for take house's line. but i sympathize with your post and i feel i already know what you wanna say. i'm not the only person who think about these things. i'm so joyful with that recognition. thx.carrotmaniahttp://dangkun21c.egloos.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572878393350853164.post-36496392969723169992012-05-26T12:43:09.420-05:002012-05-26T12:43:09.420-05:00I love the question: Who's life is it?
Beside...I love the question: Who's life is it?<br /><br />Besides the fact that most just don't live for themselves pretty much at all (all their behaviors are for others, because of others, or in reaction to others), I think it's ironic that the usual self help says your life is your own, but then says you must live it, endure it (no matter how sane or rational of mind you are) for the sake of others.<br /><br />Like you noticed, your feelings are NOT acceptable to others. You're not ALLOWED them. Yet they say your life is your own.<br /><br />But I can imagine a scenario where a perfectly fine mind is just done with it, right? I think they allow it in Washington state. And that's why its controversial, because society teaches two things, and the two things are opposed...<br /><br />Either our life is our own or it isn't...Adam Alvaradohttp://www.thelastbrokenhome.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572878393350853164.post-8765161264351077832012-05-22T18:09:34.973-05:002012-05-22T18:09:34.973-05:00I think it requires a lot of courage ... more than...I think it requires a lot of courage ... more than I have personally at this point ... from people who have survived their own suicidal minds. People who are willing to face that stigma head-on. <br /><br />Your own bravery in addressing the difficult stuff is what it takes. <br /><br />Or maybe Oprah coming back on, and you going on her show;) Maybe she could interview you on the OWN network=)downfromtheledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02324597207878500097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572878393350853164.post-11311125649930297392012-05-22T05:02:38.001-05:002012-05-22T05:02:38.001-05:00"I know I definitely feel that my actual emot..."I know I definitely feel that my actual emotions are not acceptable to others. If they were, I probably wouldn't have to write them here. I probably wouldn't have to write a blog about suicide, because I probably wouldn't have become suicidal in the first place. And I probably wouldn't have to write, period, because society would instead endorse open communication that accepts, rather than denies, all that is part of the human experience." <br /><br />Yes. Yes...<br /><br />How?<br /><br />How can we help make a shift in the world toward a society that accepts, rather than denies, all that is part of the human experience?<br /><br />I think about that question a lot. <br /><br />I think maybe just by putting our truths out there, we are already, even in some small way, shifting the paradigm... <br /><br />and yet there must be more.Theresehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00375139234930703790noreply@blogger.com