Category Archives: Suicide

Suicide III

The people who sell anniversary cards have a lot answer for. I’m looking at you, Hallmark. There is no such thing as an anniversary card for a really fucking terrible anniversary. Like rape, a traumatic car accident, the death of … Continue reading

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Suicide II

There’s a reason newspapers don’t report the details of suicides. It is irrational, superstitious, bizarre, but also one hundred percent completely true. Suicide is contagious. Like cooties. But lethal. The hard to accept truth is that when suicides have been … Continue reading

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Suicide

I suppose the preparation for this started sometime in graduate school. Someone in a lecture that I have no clear memory of said something like, “The longer one is a counselor, the chances of having a current client commit suicide … Continue reading

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Why therapy? It’s a fair question.

If you are the kind of person who still goes to book stores, you can find aisles full of self help books, celebrities and people-who-think-they-are-celebrities offering all kinds of amazing, life changing strategies in less than 300 pages. You have … Continue reading

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