It is one of life's greatest tragedies to see a person robbed of their potential by self hate caused by organic mental illness, abuse or both. Suicide is an incredible tragedy, both for the person who cuts their life short and for those who cared for them.
As someone who struggles with feelings of self-hate and thoughts of suicide but yet lacks the income or the trust in medical or mental health professionals because of past treatment such as being belittled, I would like to see this change.
As someone who became very lost and didn't know where to turn for the help he so desperately needed, my co-author would like to help make it so nobody else makes the mistake he did.
He would like to use this story to call attention to both this cause and to clearing up misconceptions about who he truly was, particularly about the reason for his suicide and about the idea that he would support others committing suicide. He wants those who genuinely cared about him to know that he is still here and he watches over them. I want to help him tell his story. I want him to be able to feel that his life wasn't in vain.
The major mission of this book is to make it so that in the future, hopefully in the not too distant future, nobody feels that they have nowhere to turn when suicidal. This is why the stigma must be removed from a diagnosis of mental illness. We are people and we deserve to be treated with compassion. The World Health Organization shares this belief. This is why we want to contribute half of the profits made from this book to supporting their efforts.
Many mentally ill persons cannot afford treatment. Government funded mental health agencies are often too overburdened to be effective for the number of people that actually need them. Each person deserves individualized care because everyone is different. Blanket diagnoses and treatments do not work.
In a nutshell our mission is this:
Spread the truth--end the stigma. Suicide can only be prevented by compassionate counsel, not by patronizing prejudice.
Join us in making the mission a success.
