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When my studio collapsed in 2017, I was consumed with thoughts of suicide.

It took me too long to get help, mostly because I didn't know how to admit to what was in my head without sounding weak and failed and broken.

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Anxiety, severe depression, planning ways to kill myself - none of these things fit into the personal narrative I'd constructed for myself. The narrative that success is happiness and that hard work in sufficient quantities will produce success.

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There is an idea, I think, that suicide is for the lonely, living alone in dark rooms.

I had a new child, a partner that loved me with all of her ♥️, supportive friends & family & a future full of possibility.

But still I thought, again & again & again, about ending my life
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