“When you’re not doing well, it almost feels instinctive to open up about these things — you’re often wearing them on your sleeve for all to see, anyway. But when things are going great on paper, it’s like seeing an elaborate display of crackers in a grocery store and pulling a box out from the botto…”— Rosemary Donahue, allure.com
“You hear it all the time: When you write about a personal experience, especially one that is dark and unpalatable, you should be far, far removed from that time in your life to process it in writing. You should have a lesson, a realization, a moral, a triumph. An ending. But I might want to die fore…”— Anna Borges, theoutline.com
“The challenge of suicide radio isn’t not obeying it. The challenge of suicide radio is identifying it for what it is: an impostor.”— Ella Dawson, elladawson.com
“What people don’t understand is that suicidal people aren’t acting out of selfishness – on the contrary, they feel that the world would be better off without them. They may be struggling with extreme depression, feelings of isolation, the effects of complex trauma or abuse, mental health issues, wor…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“It seemed like no matter what I did, I kept letting people down. I started thinking how everyone's lives would be better without me.”— Elizabeth Benjamin, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com