What I can do, and have done, is read something that will either help the impulse to pass on that particular day or, better yet, help me to pause and even start to rethink the appeal of killing myself. I don’t expect my suicidal thoughts to ever go away, though I’m happy to report that they may be diminishing. But I do believe that my attitude toward those thoughts can change, that they can feel both less appealing and less insistent—and indeed my attitude toward suicide has changed, in part through writing about it, but mostly through my exchanges with other people who are or have been
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