When your brain wants to tell you the world would be better off without you, I’m here to remind you that your brain is in a state of survival to protect you. I’ve felt this way too. When I told people, it was weaponized against me. I see your pain, and those feelings of being too much or not enough, those are real. I have felt like I am a burden to others and thought that I would be easing their burden by leaving. I’ve thought of many ways to disappear. I’ve thought how it would be better for everyone if I was gone. I’ve wished I was the one that got to pass on. Because living felt too unbearable some days. And when I told people about how I was feeling, most just told me that I was selfish. We are not equipped as a society to support others with empathy in SI. We are told to fear death, fear su1c1d3, and to not talk about it, or shame someone for feeling it. Wanting to escape the pain of living life in the world I was suffering so deeply in and wanting to exit, I don’t believe ...