Suicide Starts Long Before the Action
Suicide Starts Long Before the Action There is a dangerous misconception that suicide begins the moment someone makes the decision to end their life. It doesn't. Suicide often starts years before the action. It begins in the quiet places no one sees. It grows through untreated trauma, unspoken pain, hopelessness, isolation, shame, abandonment, and the exhausting belief that no one truly understands what you're carrying. It is the accumulation of wounds that never had the opportunity to heal. I know this because I lived it. For years, beginning as a teenager, I suffered silently. I didn't have the words to explain what was happening inside of me. I couldn't communicate my pain because I didn't understand it myself. The hurt that sat quietly within me didn't come out as tears. It came out as rage. People often judge the behavior without asking about the pain behind it. They saw anger. They saw frustration. They saw someone who seemed difficult. What they didn...