"Suicide." It is a word I have become really familiar with over the years, especially the last 12 months. It is a heavy word, it stays in the air hanging, suffocating. It carries the meaning of the worst kind of pain a human being living on this planet can face. And maybe more than anything else, it is a word a lot of people never want to hear – for one reason or the other. A part of me understands why the majority of us are so scared of suicide even as a word, a concept. It all ties back to the ideas and thoughts I've discussed earlier in this chapter. But I think there is a much bigger part in me that is boundlessly confused by the sheer hysteria the uttering of those syllables sometimes causes. And I think that is, without a doubt, one of the biggest problems we as a society have when it comes to helping people who want to kill themselves. As long as we are this scared of the word alone, that is how long we will lose even more lives that could have been saved if they
I absolutely despise the majority of representation bullying gets in the media. Every time I hear there's a new movie or TV show with bullying as a theme or major story component, I don't even want to have a look at it. It's extremely frustrating because somehow, I also manage to come across this content extremely often purely by accident. "Hey, check out this cool YouTube video on something funny that happened on the Internet– oh no, not THIS again, fuck me." "Here's a new TV show made from the perspective of young adults, trying to figure out their lives– when will this STOP???" Now don't get me wrong, I encourage representation – in fact, the more we talk about it, the better. Although the benefits of simply talking in the name of awareness does barely anything, it's still a good place to start with. But when that representation is insanely stereotypical and sometimes downright insensitive, I can feel the BPD emotions brewing inside of m