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Suicide Prevention Week 2017
Today marks day one of Suicide Prevention Week 2017. Having lost my precious 16-year-old son T.J. to suicide almost 7 years ago, suicide...
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T.J. was not a tragedy. . .
I was reading a book titled, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Sadly, Paul died at 36 of cancer. In the book’s epilogue, his...
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Choose to Keep Going;
Project Semicolon Dealing with a brain disorder like depression or anxiety is often a lifelong journey. There is no quick fix or miracle...
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Teen Suicide Doesn’t Discriminate
On December 1, 2010 my out-going, intelligent, sensitive athletic 16-year-old son T.J. killed himself. I feel it was important to speak...
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Suicide Can Never be an Option
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. September is also the month my precious son T.J. was born. Today would have...
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4 years...4 years...4 years...4 years
Today marks 4 years since T.J. left this earth. Today marks 4 years since T.J. died by suicide. His death has left a void so vast there...