The Little Things

Hey, Hannah here, When the word suicide is spoken what often first comes to mind is death. And well, while death is pretty much the most obvious thought, what most people miss out is that it’s not just taking your own life. What if I said that you don’t have to have physically tried to take your own life to be suicidal?   What would you think then? Someone once told me, a classmate of mine, that to take your own life something must be wrong. He meant not just emotionally but mentally as well, he said that something had to already be gone. I didn’t answer him, I didn’t know how to. But now that I sit here, laptop on lap, thinking about his words, I fully understand what he had said so carelessly. In a dangerous situation our natural first response is to find safety or to take it head on, it’s usually called “fight or flight” but most people already know that. I remember one time in the swimming pool when I tried to see if I could drown myself. I sat under the pool, hold...