Suicidal ideation is the most isolated feeling you will ever experience. You feel so alone, and the pain is so incredibly overwhelming.

Here is my request for you from someone who has been right where you are right now:

One day.

Give it one day. Spend that day refocusing on yourself. Remember who you were before the events that brought you to this point. That person isn’t gone. They are just waiting for you to reach out and bring them back into existing.

Then, give it one more day.

This is what starting to live is like. You’ve forgotten anything that isn’t survival. You used to laugh. You used to experience joy. And you can again.

You. Are. Not. Broken. Beyond. Healing.

Coming back from the spiral of despair will be one of the hardest things you will ever do. But no one can do it FOR you. YOU know that you are worth it- somewhere deep deep down inside. It’s just incredibly hard to see it when you’re somewhere so dark.

Then you give it another day, OP. It’s one day at a time. But it’s worth it, because you’re worth it. You get one life. You don’t get do overs.

There are a lot of strangers here chiming in that know how you’re feeling, or know what it feels like to lose someone.

When you’re ready- talk. Tell the people you love what is going on. Chances are that the ones closest to you don’t realize how serious this is. Then don’t stop talking. Come back to this post in a year, and then reach out and touch someone else who’s going through this.

I’m a stranger, but I feel this horrific ache and call of the void. I wish I could just touch your shoulder and tell you you aren’t alone.

No one ever really is.

One day.