Anthony,
Make that statement about Cerebral Palsy - has a history of
Cerebral Palsy and that's something you don't want to be known for. And this
used to be true - and just think how bad you have to fight the image now.The
fact is all the stuff - you guys tag as "bad" and don't want to bring up -
are the very things that people need to be able to talk about and be honest
and that doesn't just include the person. There is no shame in trying to
commit suicide - it a powerful signal to those around you - that they need
to get off their duff and help you. And we need others to talk about it and
understand. Most importantly, the "bad" things need to cease being things
that get sweep under the rug and we feel ashamed to talk about them. I
attempted suicide - once when I was 12 - I come from a very abusive
background and at 12 - I couldn't handle the incest very well, nor being
belittled and beaten - I wanted out - I did not want to live like this for
another 6 years. Obviously I failed, as I writing this today - and I
survived another 6 years of torture. And my parents covered up my overdose
as childly stupidity - so I got no help. I can understand the kind of mental
darkness that has one want to die. It is a feeling of hopelessness and
dispare beyond words. I understand the feeling completely - and I know I
can't let it win. I stroke my wrist and go on - I also know - I have no one
I can go to and say - the darkness is here - help me - let me talk - but to
talk about that stuff makes people uncomfortable. 1 in 4 girls with be
sexually asaulted by the time she is 18, 1 in 7 boys will be sexually
assaulted by the time they are 18, battered wives make up 5.4% of each
1,000. Suicide was in 1999 the 11th leading cause of death. IUn all abuse
categories the percentage of disabled being abuse is higher that that of NDA
persons. So not talking about things doesn't make go away. It makes your
discomfort go away - and that - mon amie - means someone somewhere -
commits suicide. The result of these kind of abuse is shame, fear, low or no
self-esteem, isolating ones self, wanting to die. We need to reach out and
make these things discussable - so we can let people know - it's okay, they
are okay, and its not their fault, there are other ways, and we are here -
to listen, to help, to understand, to talk about this stuff openly.
Brightest Blessings - Trisha
> I don't want to go against you because you're right, but I feel nobody
> should bring up the fact that Kathy Jo has a history of trying to commit
> suicide besides herself, because that's something you don't want to be
> known
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