If I take my Life. Please talk about it.

Last night we lost yet another Veteran brother.

Losing one life to suicide is one too many.

For those following my other posts, you probably know I am a Canadian Veteran, living with PTSD and engaged to an amazing man who is also a Veteran living with PTSD.

A group of island veterans, including myself, made this video to help raise awareness for PTSD and to help end the stigma associated with Mental Health Illnesses. This video has reached many people but unfortunately we haven’t done much with the video in the past while. All of us in the video are living with PTSD, and life has been a challenge. We still work everyday to bring awareness for PTSD. I am sharing this here as a way to keep to keep the talk going.

Please don’t be scared to speak out, please speak out and find a buddy before you get too lost in your own thoughts. Please don’t feel like you are alone.

I want to encourage talking, NOT taking your own life. I also want people to call it like it is when a person takes their own life. All too often a suicide is not called a suicide because society doesn’t like that word. Suicide is often labeled as an accident, an overdose, but it hardly ever gets worded as the truth. The truth being, someone took their own life because the battle was too overpowering. It does not mean that person was weak, quite the opposite, that person was trying to be strong, in silence many times, for way too long. Help end the stigma surrounding Mental Health and suicide.

Please talk about it. NOW LATER AND ALWAYS.

Until next time my friends be kind to yourself and look out for others xox

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