{"quotes":[{"text":"The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["at-risk-people","at-risk-youth","brokenness","compassion","counseling","empowerment-and-attitude","healing","healing-the-emotional-self","healing-the-past","helping-others","human-rights-day","humility","intervention","recovery","remembrances","suicidal","suicide","survival","survivor","survivors","survivors-of-war","survivorship","war-veterans","word-definitions"],"id":16733,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery].- Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID).","author":"Bethany L. Brand","tags":["billy-milligan","dissociative-identity-disorder","insanity","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misconception","misrepresentation","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","self-harm","self-injury","split-personality","stereotypes","stigma","suicidal","suicidality","suicide","the-crowded-room"],"id":28670,"author_id":"Bethany+L.+Brand"},{"text":"Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn’t afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.","author":"Craig R. Key","tags":["death","death-and-dying","fearless","inevitability","suicidal"],"id":36935,"author_id":"Craig+R.+Key"},{"text":"The circles of shame are vicious. Painful feelings of shame help cause people to be depressed and suicidal, these in turn become shameful aspects of the self. Being angry does not necessarily cause more anger, being envious does not necessarily cause more envy (though once we envy, we can also envy someone's lack of envy), but, in our culture at least, shame (and envy and self-pity) are things to be ashamed about. The two common feelings of suicide are hopelessness and powerlessness; each is shameful, and this additional experience of shame adds pain on pain. A man who despairs because he feels his prospects of having a family are hopeless also feels he will never lose the feeling of shame over being wifeless and childless. To be powerless to change one's life in ways that others can is cause to feel ashamed of one's powerlessness.","author":"David L. Conroy","tags":["anger","depressed","depression","envy","family","hopelessness","infertility","powerlessness","self-pity","shame","suicidal","suicide"],"id":37589,"author_id":"David+L.+Conroy"},{"text":"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["battle","battles","christian","christianity","crazy","dead","death","denial","deny","exist","fight","foolish","foolishness","god","insane","insanity","suicidal","suicide","survival"],"id":39062,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["death","depression","fear","friendship","life","loneliness","mental-illness","social-anxiety","social-awkwardness","suicidal","suicide"],"id":40794,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["bravado","chi-ro-jin","fear","fear-of-death","fear-of-dying","fearlessness","heroism","recklessness","sci-fi","science-fiction","scifi","suicidal","wisdom"],"id":47601,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"},{"text":"If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["destructive","ego","egocentric","feed","feeding","gorge","gorging","greed","greedy","kill","killing","murder","narcissism","narcissistic","self","self-centered","self-destruct","self-destruction","self-mutilation","suicidal","suicide"],"id":69534,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"What if I just want to die?'Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.","author":"Megan Bostic","tags":["austin","book","death-wish","depression","never-eighteen","suicidal","suicidal-thoughts","suicidality","suicide"],"id":72340,"author_id":"Megan+Bostic"},{"text":"I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.","author":"Antonin Artaud","tags":["artaud","insane-asylum","mental-health","psychiatrist","suicidal","suicide"],"id":77904,"author_id":"Antonin+Artaud"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}