That's hard to do and didn't always result in any meaningful solution after the fact. For instance, i don't like to talk about it. I don't even know how to talk about it. And once I did come out and admit what I did (or tried to do) in a moment of overwhelming internal chaos, there was some worry, especially my mother, but I guess it was just assumed that I got through it because I'm still here. I don't know if that is totally true or not because after taking about it a little bit and hoping something would change, I just pushed it all down again and carried on. Even now, this is only like the 3rd time I've ever mentioned anything. I guess it's worth noting that I've taken steps to help myself to not be in the position I ended up in on those 2 or 3 occasions... but I still know it's something im still living with; that does come back up to the surface. Plenty of people have scares that can't be seen and that they live with every day.

I can only speculate, because I know people have different experiences, that speaking up just results in people you trust seeing you as weak and that the things that I would perceive as the cause of what I deal with as things that I should just be able to man-up and deal with... after all, there are a lot of people with inconceivably worse problems and therefore I am just being whiney and unreasonable. Whatever, man. All I know is that our minds can become our worst enemies. I don't pretend to know what the answer is. I don't even know why im saying any of this at all. I don't know how to fix myself, let alone anyone else from a psychological position; all I can hope to express is that people need not be so shitty to eachother. One small gesture of kindness can save someone's life if it comes when most needed.

Just... be excellent to eachother and try to leave the world in better shape than you found it. "You never know how one small act today can affect the lives of millions tomorrow."