#suicide

Hello, im new here, so hi again. After reading countless topics of depression a subject that keeps coming up is keeping a diary. I’ve looked passed it for months now thinking it’s pointless and why should I? Well, right now as I type this, I’m in a real shit space of mind. And I’m willing…

Howdy, I used to use this site a lot back in the day, mainly when i was a teen. I don't know why I've come back, perhaps its because i have lost the motivation to go on and wanted to write it down somewhere. I'm 31 years old, going through a divorce living with my…

But really, what goes thru the mind of a potential bridge jumper? Not so much why they respond to the invitation of a particular monster, but simply why they respond to the monster at all. What makes a bridge look like a way out of torment for them, instead of a way across a body…

Most all of the domestic and local monsters I've come up against in my lifetime have one thing in common. Precious few of them ever posed any real mortal threat to me, or to anyone else. The fear and dread I felt was most all in my own mind. I suppose that tree might have…

A few days ago I had a conversation with that friend of mine who knew the Key Bridge jumper. I asked him if the man's mother was still around, and if had knew how she was doing. He said he only kept in contact with her for a short time after his friend died and…

Have you ever taken a walk outdoors, perhaps as a child, and decided to pick up a rock just to see what is under it? The top of the rock is just a surface, exposed to sunlight, wind and rain. What apparently exists is what is there front of you out in the open, seemingly…

For some reason I keep thinking back on something I saw while on a vacation earlier this summer. The first part of my vacation was a visit to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. I went there for the annual Coaster Mania event which was held on a Friday. But once that was over, it was…

I don't know, maybe I am too harsh with my condemnation of that Gulf Coast monster. But all I know is that the sight of it triggers something that causes extreme dread to well up within me. So much so that I want to look away from images of it. I have no idea why…

There are of course many bridges that people jump from to end their lives. Some have an impressive body count, some have only a handful of deaths, and of course some fall in the middle. But I always thought that the Key Bridge was the only one that ever had the blood of a jumper…