All Posts Tagged With: "DBSA"

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I am a Suicide Survivor

Livethroughthis.org is the website project and future mobile exhibition created by Dese’Rae Stage, her self a suicide survivor.  Carlton Davis edited Dese’Rae’s interview.  To see the unedited story and stories and portraits of other suicide survivors see: http.//www.livethroughtthis.org. Suicide is the 10th highest cause of death in the United States. The mental illness that leads […]

12Sep2014 | | 2 comments | Continued
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Love and Isolation

“8 Habits of Love” is a book by the Reverend Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints Church, Pasadena, California, where I am a member.  I don’t consider myself a total Christian, since I have not accepted the divinity of Christ. I like what he preached, and I am a committed Vipassana Buddhist, but I find […]

18Nov2013 | | 13 comments | Continued
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Let me shoot you I’m mentally ill

 The Tucson shooter is giving mental illness a bad name. He joins the list of killers who are identified as mentally ill: the shooter at Virginia Tech, the kid gunmen at Columbine, the targeter who nicked President Reagan, and a whole host of others going all the way back to the Texas Tower marksman, and […]

15Jan2011 | | 0 comments | Continued