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September 10.

Aug 22, 2016

As of this year, suicide is at its all time high for the past 30 years. This means that too many people are losing hope about their futures, don't have anyone to talk to, or have let their mental disorders take over their minds.

Suicide is one of those things that most people do not like to talk about. And if it does get talked about, its being called cowardly and selfish. Whereas many will agree that it is cowardly and selfish, the people that do commit suicide or think about committing suicide, do not see it that way. They see it as ending any pain that they are in because they cannot bare to deal with it anymore and they think that nobody will ever care that they decided to do this. Truth is, they do not think about all of the possibilities, all of the people that really do care about them, and all of the things that they will not get to experience in the future.

There are so many things that end when you decide to take your life. You hurt all of the people that care about you and love you, your future will never get to happen, you will miss your high school graduation, you will miss getting to see your younger siblings grow up and what kind of people that they will be, and most of all, you lose the hope that everything will get better in the future.

The best thing for you to do if you are considering suicide is to get help in one way or another. Take it from someone that knows what this feels like. I have been there, right there in your shoes. I have felt what you have felt and I got help. Now six years later, I am in college pursuing a degree that I love and I'm finally happy with where I am in my life.

Things will be hard, most people will just see a smile on someone's face and assume that they're happy and not think that anything could be wrong. When the truth is, that just because someone is smiling, it does not always mean they are happy. Be kind to others, you do not know what goes on behind closed doors or in the silence of their minds.

This year for World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th, To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA), has launched a campaign with the slogan #IKeptLiving. You can go to www.twloha.com to buy merchandise to support this campaign and you may also go to IKeptLiving.com to donate.

So, in the spirit of the launch of their new campaign, #IKeptLiving because my story was not over yet. I need to finish my story and then allow myself to share my story to help other people that may be able to relate.

To the people that may read this and are struggling, the number for the National Suicide Prevention Line is 1-800-273-8255. Or you may go on www.twloha.com and find other help lines and resources for you to use.

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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10. When you're assigned a group project.

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