Hi Ness it must of been very upsetting for you to know of this situation. I also think Christmas is a particularly hard, sad and lonely time for so many people. I know from my own experience that even being in the same physical prescience as my family-I still feel more alone than most times. So much pressure to put up pretences with people who in many cases aren't close to us or involved in our lives. So it must be incredibly difficult for people who are totally alone. And suicide is a word people seem afraid of. Yet it needs to be talked openly about so that people contemplating it may reach out instead of hide away in their own private prison of pain. I'm sure so many of us on BB can relate to thoughts or contemplation of suicide whether intended or not. I often say its the pain and desperation I want to end-not necessarily my entire life. I want to destroy the hopelessness, the darkness, the feeling that I've lost control of who I am. So I can appreciate that for many people-especially those who can't talk to someone-suicide is seen as the only way out of the pain. I too hope you are ok Nes. Mares
