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Tag: Suicide

  • The Summer I Went Crazy

    Serious content warning for this post. I talk about childhood abuse, trauma, suicide, and sexual assault. There’s a video making the rounds on social media. I haven’t watched it. I don’t want to watch it. But I’ve seen the comments and I know, basically, what it’s about: a child having a tantrum on a train.…

  • An Open Letter to the Man Who Called Me A “Retard” Today

    Dear Sir, whomever you may be, I hope you feel good. I hope that you are sitting in satisfaction at never having made a mistake in your entire human life. I hope that you know that you must be perfect, that the gods shine love down upon you and bless you in ways they do…

  • Your Diet is Boring and Sad (and triggering)

    When you talk about dieting, you may be triggering people you care about. If you don’t want to hurt people you like, please stop talking about dieting.

  • Minimizing Mental Illness: a message to allies

    Having mental illness means you learn to minimize what’s going on with you, or you learn to be alone.

  • Bell Let’s Talk day and Mental Illness

    On any given day you might think I’m doing just fine by looking at my outside — but inside, I’m screaming.

  • 2013, so far

    TRIGGER WARNING: depression, suicide, self-harm, university and student loan bullshit, anxiety This has not been a good year. I’m not wallowing in drama; I’m stating a fact. This year started out with a week of depression, anxiety attacks, and severe suicidal thoughts. It’s gotten a bit better, but I’ve still be battling the mother of…

  • This is Rape Culture — addendum to my Amanda Todd post

    Trigger warning: description of rape, rape culture, misogyny, bullying, suicide Something I didn’t really get into in my last post about Amanda Todd’s suicide is the misogyny, sexism, and clear and present rape culture apparent in the details of the case. I did originally write about it in my post, but decided I wanted to…

  • Bullying and Suicide — Justice for Amanda Todd

    Trigger warning. A teenager local to me committed suicide this week. She’d been bullied and stalked and harassed for a few years, and it got to be too much to take. All over one innocuous action, what some may deem a screw-up, that just happened to happen on the internet. You know, kids screw up.…

  • Depression (trigger warning: suicide, self-harm, ableism)

    There’s something quite insidious about depression. It prevents me from doing anything I want to quite often. In fact, it is only by forcing myself quite strenuously that I am writing this at all, and the fact that I misspelled strenuously and had to use the spell-check in Firefox to fix it made me almost…

  • Writer Wednesday: 2011 Banned Books Week and full disclosure about my adolescence

    September 24th through October 1st is Banned Books Week. Over the years, many books and writers have been banned or challenged — for political reasons or just some vague feeling of “needing to protect the children”. Until this year, I’d never sought to read a banned book. Then I decided I’d try and find one,…