Tweet SOS – Survivors of Suicide (Loss) In the last week, I’ve spoken with a few fellow survivors of suicide. A fellow survivor named Cathy lost her boyfriend a mere three weeks ago. In an effort to reach out to help Cathy and others who have lost a loved one to suicide, I decided it was [...]

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Tweet Inspiration or Repulsion? I spent a lot of time this past week talking to friends, associates, therapists and spiritual counselors about the mission of Giggle On. In true Christa style, I also asked a lot of questions. Does my site inspire or repel people? Is bringing awareness about depression and suicide on a site whose primary [...]

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Tweet Part 3 of my Suicide Awareness and Survivor Support series focuses on the guilt survivors of suicide experience. In this case, I talk about my guilt for not taking the handgun my friend Jim used to kill himself, and my ‘Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda‘ complex. This is a long post so unless you are an SOS, survivor of suicide, you may want [...]

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Tweet Relief and realizations Thursday was my Godsmack anniversary date. By all rights, it was harder getting though the 8th than getting through 7th (the day Jim died). I breathed a ginormous sigh of relief when the clock finally struck 12:01 a.m., October the 9th. I wasn’t expecting to experience such a range of feelings this [...]

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Tweet Living in a state of depression The majority of teen and young adult life was spent in and out of a state of depression (I had my own zip code).  I spent years thinking life sucked with a big fat capital “S“. In my mind life was a jail and often I thought about [...]

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