Can We Talk About Suicide?

This is a piece that has been in my head for a while. Being a survivor myself, this a topic that I know all too well but was never able to talk about.

The first time that I wanted to commit suicide I was 14 years old. At the time we were finally living with our father (I had never lived with my parents since a baby). My father’s definition of love was straight up abuse (describe) at no fault of his own, that’s how he was raised.