CNN article

I LOVE that CNN published this. And that this woman has the courage to share her story.

May was Mental Health Awareness month.  (I clearly did a great job partaking in the 31 days of trying to increase awareness and thereby- hopefully- decrease stigma...)  CNN did a little ditty, Going public with mental illness, in an attempt to give a platform for people to share their experience with mental illness.  This is one of the "featured" stories.

How I learned to live after trying to end my life, by Christine O'Hagan

A quote from the article to entice to read the whole thing:

Speaking publicly about my attempt, healing and my occasional trips and falls on the way to a healthy future has saved me. I am very open about how I felt and what I did. I was afraid I would lose my career, or even my children, for speaking so openly about my illness, but it has brought nothing but positive returns so far. 

I have an overwhelming sense that I survived for a reason. I want to tell my story to help people, so no one else feels like I did. I want to help the people left behind, so they don't feel responsible for their loved one's death. I want to speak for those who completed suicide and let people know how much pain they were in. The pain and the disease were to blame.