URGENT UPDATE AND PLEA- Dear people of India, souls from Mumbai, Allahabad, Lucknow, Madras, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Bhopal, Pune, Ghazipur, Delhi, Indore, & Bulandshahr and on. I know you are hurting. I see that you have come to this post looking for “Suicide Tips” or ideas on how to end your life. If you are from [...]

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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 focus [...]

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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. This is a long post so unless you are an SOS, survivor of suicide, you may want to hit the pass button on this [...]

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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 week. [...]

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Living in a state of depression The majority of my life was spent in and out of a state of depression (I had my own zip code) and often, I was quite manic. I regularly experienced suicidal thoughts. I spent years thinking life sucked with a big fat capital “S“. In my mind life was [...]

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