Survivor of Attempted Suicide: My Experience with 13 Reasons Why *Contains graphic content, possible triggers, and possible spoilers for 13 Reasons Why .* It’s 2:34 a.m. I’m exhausted. I’m nauseous. I can’t sleep. I won’t sleep. I’ve been here before, hundreds of times. Those times were a lifetime ago; weren’t they? I’m past this; aren’t I? That’s episodes past. Episodes consumed by painful battles in the night; the moon, the lonely darkness, the emptiness, the tears, the razor blades, the release, the blood, the scars, the pills, the bleach: my attempt at suicide. It’s true… I attempted suicide. I failed. For months, I contemplated trying again. I didn’t. I wouldn’t. I couldn’t muster that level of courage ever again. The insane courage it took that night, I could never collect it again. I’m grateful for that. If you haven’t ever reached that place, never had that moment, you are lucky. Without reaching that place, that moment, it is imp...
Life With Ziggy is a memoir by Justin Barrow. Overwhelmed and overcome by the insidiousness of depression, a young man adopts a malnourished, abused, and terrified Pit Bull - Basenji mix in order to help him make sense of his troubled life. The dog, which was set to be euthanized hours later, is rescued at the last minute with a small glimmer of hope that he will, in turn, rescue his new master in his last minutes.