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So awful about Robin Williams. I'm in treatment for depression (although, sad as I am about the news about Robin Williams, I'm not depressed at the moment). So important to be able to acknowledge the pain, and to be able to feel able to talk about it, and to seek help before it's too late. A quick, incomplete, suicide-centric list:

Survivor Support:
http://www.allianceofhope.org/alliance-of-hope-for-…
http://www.survivorsofsuicide.com
http://www.suicide.org/suicide-survivors-forum.html…
http://calgary.cmha.ca/programs-and-services/suicid…
http://www.siblingsurvivors.com

Survivors of the suicide of a child:
http://www.compassionatefriends.org/home.aspx
http://childsuicide.homestead.com

General Awareness & Prevention:
https://www.save.org
http://www.suicidology.org
http://www.sprc.org
http://suicideprevention.ca
https://www.afsp.org
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
http://veteranscrisisline.net
LGBT youth focused: http://www.thetrevorproject.org

A fantastic page put together by the San Francisco Leather Alliance:
http://leatheralliance.org/education/suicide-prevention

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So awful about Robin Williams. I'm in treatment for depression (although, sad as I am about the news about Robin Williams, I'm not depressed at the moment). So important to be able to acknowledge the pain, and to be able to feel able to talk about it, and to seek help before it's too late. A quick, incomplete, suicide-centric list:

Survivor Support:
http://www.allianceofhope.org/alliance-of-hope-for-…
http://www.survivorsofsuicide.com
http://www.suicide.org/suicide-survivors-forum.html…
http://calgary.cmha.ca/programs-and-services/suicid…
http://www.siblingsurvivors.com

Survivors of the suicide of a child:
http://www.compassionatefriends.org/home.aspx
http://childsuicide.homestead.com

General Awareness & Prevention:
https://www.save.org
http://www.suicidology.org
http://www.sprc.org
http://suicideprevention.ca
https://www.afsp.org
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
http://veteranscrisisline.net
LGBT youth focused: http://www.thetrevorproject.org

A fantastic page put together by the San Francisco Leather Alliance:
http://leatheralliance.org/education/suicide-prevention

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"Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper. Until one day, life for him lost its reason. He had no faith in any man, not even himself. He couldn't love or feel loved. He was sick with experience. He began to die. One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn't see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king, "What ails you friend?" The king replied, "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all of his life. And he turned to the fool and said with amazement, "How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" And the fool replied, "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty."

-from The Fisher King

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"Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper. Until one day, life for him lost its reason. He had no faith in any man, not even himself. He couldn't love or feel loved. He was sick with experience. He began to die. One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn't see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king, "What ails you friend?" The king replied, "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all of his life. And he turned to the fool and said with amazement, "How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" And the fool replied, "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty."

-from The Fisher King