JD Schramm: Break the silence for suicide survivors

http://www.ted.com Even when our lives appear fine from the outside, locked within can be a world of quiet suffering, leading some to the decision to end their life. At TEDYou, JD Schramm asks us to break the silence surrounding suicide and suicide attempts, and to create much-needed resources to help people who reclaim their life after escaping death. Resources: http://t.co/wsNrY9C

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[Primalxbeast]

If you try to kill yourself, you just get sent to an abusive psych ward where you're treated as if you're sub-human and they act pissed at you for wasting their time by still being alive. Many people who work in psych wards deserve a slow painful death.

[Cliff Williams]

This is moving. I wasn't prepared for "I am John." Yes, the silence needs to be broken. I am doing a book of stories of suicide attempt survivors. If you would like to be interviewed for the book, write me at savedfromsuicide at gmail com or visit cliffordwilliams net/suicide for more information. Confidentiality guaranteed.

[BWoodz09]

From Poppyseeds Company comes a series that reveals the chilling stories of individual’s attempts at suicide

. Hopefully, your story will help others, and that is what we are hoping to accomplish.

Please email: popseeco@gmail.com with your name, age, gender, and a producer will contact you accordingly

[harryb382003]

Sadly, what many fail to realize is that for some, it is not an undertaking pursued on a whim. It is days, weeks, months sometimes years in it's execution all the while being fought from within.

[Bathna BS]

people who hit the bottom are more likely to survive their depression and suicidal thoughts when they accept their pain and acknowledge that what happened to them does not define them. you can sit eating chips and cheese waiting for your inner strength to come out after cheating death, it requires some effort, some patience, some faith... to start from scratch.

[Jessica Collins]

Yeah all these haters of suicidal people have it so easy it appears. Guess they haven't spent a whole lifetime dealing with abuse or trauma. Must be nice assholes!

[Jessica Collins]

Been there and that is why I don't go them anymore. Better off on my own devices. They don't help anyway. They don't dig into the reason you are there or give coping skills at least not in my town.

[Jessica Collins]

Yeah well with me what people don't know can't hurt them. My only friend is in Illinois and would never know being in a different state so whatever. Not saying I would.

[Jessica Collins]

Agreed that is why I don't seek help any more after feeble behaviors regarding toying with suicide cause I know it isn't a real attempt. I don't need the attention anyhow.

[Jessica Collins]

Define a true suicide attempt. I have set out several times to with drinking to lower my inhibitions and then took way more pills than prescribed but never have I had a near fatal anything so that can't be classified as suicide attempt.I call it stupidity because obviously I wasn't serious enough.

[oracle2world]

Okay ... if you try and fail, you are waaaaaaaaaaaay worse off! Sorry John.

[Michael Lawrence]

In Melbourne, Australia, 1999, I took an overdose of pills, woke up in hospital two days later. After I told the psych nurse that I had stopped taking my Prozac and that I smoked cigarettes, I was released on the spot, no questions asked.